The Arts Garden

Send us Fan MailA road-worn guitar, a coconut horse, Jane Austen compositions and a karaoke bar turned art gallery.We open with folk artist Katie Milae, fresh off the Goodness Me Festival and deep into her Art of Wildflowering tour. From road train childhoods to van-life songwriting, she unpacks music as medicine, movement, and connection, plus a glimpse of her long-awaited debut album. Then it’s full absurdist throttle with the cast of Spamalot from the Metropolitan Musical Theatre Company. Expect Monty Python chaos, coconut percussion, and a reminder that great ensemble work is the backbone of any show (even one involving shrubbery).We shift gears into classical and literary territory with Gillian Dooley, who brings Jane Austen set to music back to life, blending scholarship, performance, and new compositions that reveal Austen’s wit in an entirely new register.Finally, we head into Chinatown for On Site, a boundary-pushing OSCA project curated by Kim Munro, Yusuf Ali Hayat and Alice McCool transforming a karaoke bar into an immersive, multi-room art experience. Think experimental film, sound works, audience participation and a reimagining of what an arts space can be.

Send us Fan MailFrom indie music resistance to immersive painting and politically urgent cinema, this episode moves through art that refuses to sit still.We’re joined in-studio by San Dragan, unpacking a bold move away from Spotify and toward a grounded, community-driven music career; one built on live performance, connection, and creative autonomy. Then, artist Grace Harper takes us inside her Berlin residency and intuitive painting practice, where abstraction, emotion, and flow state collide in a deeply personal visual language shaped by memory, movement, and conversation with the canvas. We also hear from Nasser Shakour, co-founder of the Palestinian Film Festival, on the power of film to build empathy and humanise stories beyond headlines. And finally, ASO clarinetist and drifter Dean Newcomb brings two worlds together: classical music and motor racing, in a new concerto that captures adrenaline, risk, and performance across disciplines. 

Send us Fan MailPost-Fringe, the Arts Garden resets.In Episode 10, we trace the threads of creativity across generations, forms, and philosophies, moving from Adelaide’s jazz lineage to the radical history of modernist art, and into the inner worlds of sound, voice, and meaning.🎷 We’re joined in-studio by James Muller and Lyndon Gray of The Exhibits, ahead of their upcoming album launch. They reflect on collaboration, creative renewal, and building the next wave of jazz musicians through the Elder Conservatorium.🎨 We revisit the legacy of Max Harris and the Angry Penguins movement with Samela Harris, exploring censorship, resistance, and the long arc of artistic defiance that still shapes Adelaide’s cultural identity today.🎶 Spiritual author Alana Fairchild joins us to talk about music as regulation, voice as power, and how sound and ritual can help us navigate uncertainty in a rapidly shifting world.🌏 Plus: Stephanie Rowe about a global poetry movement redefining publishing norms  Brand SA's partnership with The Mill supporting South Australian artists  SALA Festival registrations open for 2026 Mad March may end but the ecosystem doesn’t. What’s left is the deeper work: sustaining creativity, challenging systems, and finding meaning in the noise.

Send us Fan MailIt’s the final week of Adelaide Fringe and Festival, and Arts Garden brings together a powerful mix of artists exploring endurance, storytelling, and meaning.🚴 Connor Delves joins us to talk about CADEL: Lungs on Legs: a high-intensity solo performance where he rides live on stage while telling the story of Cadel Evans’ Tour de France victory. We explore the discipline of endurance sport, the challenge of telling a “winner’s story”, and why this is such a uniquely Australian journey.🎭 Casey Jay Andrews (Punchdrunk) shares insights into immersive theatre and her Designing Immersive Worlds workshop. We dive into how environment, design and storytelling can merge and how her latest work Feast of Words turns performance into a shared sensory experience through food, music and story.📖 Gemma Parker discusses her memoir The Mother Is Restless and She Doesn’t Know Why blending philosophy, parenting and pandemic life into a deeply reflective exploration of nihilism, creativity and what it means to keep making work when conditions are far from perfect.💥 Justine Martin closes the episode with an extraordinary story of resilience, from life-changing illness to building five creative businesses. We talk about “bouncing forward”, rejecting inspiration stereotypes, and the power of creativity as both healing and purpose.Across sport, philosophy, theatre and lived experience, this episode asks:👉 How do we create meaning when nothing feels certain? 👉 What does it take to keep going and keep creating?🎙️ Arts Garden with James and Bronwin 📻 Three D Radio 93.7FM

Send us Fan MailWe are beyond the Womad long weekend and have two weeks of festival season left. On this week's Art's Garden we talk shower burlesque thoughts, boy band dating parodies, Portuguese folktronica and making a career in circus. New Zealand performer Gigi Cartier joins the show to talk about Showgirl Roulette: a wild, improvised cabaret where a spinning wheel decides the lineup and random song selections push performers into freestyle chaos. We also discuss the craft of burlesque, the realities of nightlife performance, and how improvisation and spontaneity shape the show.Portuguese artist Tereza shares the story behind Abraço (Embrace), a multilingual music project blending folk traditions, electronic dance music and influences from across Iberian, African and global cultures. Performing in five languages, Tereza explores identity, ancestry and connection through music.From circus to wine tasting, Virago Circus producer Nicole Walker previews Flight, an immersive experience pairing aerial and circus performance with a curated wine flight at Beresford Estate.We also hear from South Australian Circus Centre director Alex Charman about The Pack, a youth ensemble show exploring adolescence, trust and risk through acrobatics and aerial performance.And musical theatre director Richard Carroll discusses the hilarious boyband parody Fuccbois: Live in Concert, written by Bridie Connell, which skewers modern dating culture through pitch-perfect pop pastiche.Featuring interviews, music and Fringe previews from across Adelaide’s arts scene.Featured artists and showsGigi Cartier — Showgirl RouletteTereza — Abraço (Embrace)Virago Circus — FlightSouth Australian Circus Centre — The PackFuccbois: Live in ConcertThe Arts Garden Broadcast on Three D Radio 93.7FM Adelaide Championing artists, performers and cultural creators from across Australia and beyond.

Send us Fan MailFrom Brazilian futuristic dance to avant-garde magic, clown game shows, contemporary circus from Aotearoa, stand-up rebellion and the 50-year legacy of Friendly Street Poets – Episode 7 is packedWe talk emotional regulation through dance, colonial language hangovers, speed-sewn circus couture, migration and magic, hot girl comedy politics, and why poetry might matter more than political turmoil.In This Episode🎧 Talita Fontainha – TQ ProductionsTune In! The Frequency WithinBrazilian choreographer Talita Fontainha joins us to discuss her high-energy, futuristic dance-theatre show about emotional self-regulation. Inspired by lived experience with ADHD, occupational therapy frameworks, and Afro-Brazilian movement traditions, this family-friendly show remixes pop music, DJ decks and carnival costumes into a vibrant sensory journey.Using dance to teach emotional literacyLiving as a migrant artist in AdelaideBrazilian cultural storytellingMaking Fringe shows inclusive and accessible🎪 The Dust Palace (Lizzie & Eve) – Haus of YOLODirect from Aotearoa/New Zealand, contemporary circus company The Dust Palace brings fast fashion chaos to Gluttony.In Haus of YOLO, costumes are sewn live on stage while aerialists spin, glass is walked on, and Spanish Web circus unfolds under rave beats.Why New Zealand circus is delightfully weird“Number 8 wire” innovation cultureQueer fashion satire meets cabaretWhat actually happens when you sew lycra at speed🎩 Annanya George – I Want To Be The World’s Greatest MagicianOff-Broadway performer Annanya George unpacks what it means to reinvent magic as storytelling.This is not a standard card trick show. It’s magic as memoir – blending illusion with migration, bureaucracy, identity and defiance.Why narrative magic is considered “avant-garde”Border agents demanding tricks at 3amThe politics of illusionBreaking the rules of traditional magic culture🌏 Vibhinna Ramdev – Why English?A powerful physical theatre work examining linguistic colonisation in India.Growing up English-speaking in IndiaCultural identity and belongingPerforming across Edinburgh and AdelaideThe parallels between colonial histories in India and Australia📖 Nigel Ford – Friendly Street PoetsFriendly Street celebrates 50 years as the largest and oldest poetry group in the Southern Hemisphere.The oral tradition of poetryReading under the shadow of the Whitlam dismissalWhy Friendly Street doesn’t censor languageThree upcoming themed poetry nightsThe release of the expanded Chronicle (350+ pages)A timely conversation about free speech, art and community.🎤 Korinna Gouros – Comedy & “Hot Girl Retirement”First-time Fringe performer Korinna Gouros reflects on strict Greek upbringing, queer awakening, and navigating comedy as an attractive woman in a male-dominated space.Social media validation“Hot girls shouldn’t do comedy”Rebel energy as creative fuelDoing two Fringe shows at once🤡 Jeremiah Detto – Giuseppe’s Love QuestClowning meets vulnerability in this charming solo show about searching for love.Studying under Philippe GaulierRediscovering childlike playFringe variety cultureSupporting Gary Starr’s hit show🎟 Adelaide Fringe runs until 22 March 📍 Shows at Gluttony, Courtyard of Curiosities, Tandanya, Woodville Town Hall & more 📻 Arts Garden on 93.7FM Three D Radio 📲 Follow @artsgarden93.7fm

Send us Fan MailAdelaide Fringe is in full swing and Episode Six dives deep into joyful chaos, physical theatre and urgent storytelling.🎭 …Earnest? (Say It Again, Sorry?) What happens when the lead actor doesn’t show up and the audience becomes the cast? Josh and Rhys unpack how Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest transforms into an interactive experiment in identity, ego and theatrical bravery. By the final bows, there are no professional actors left, only audience heroes.🤍 Joylyn Secunda & Marcel Cole — Partners in Mime From The Routine to Smile: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, two physical theatre artists share how they met at Fringe, fell in love, and built wordless worlds of movement, magic and mischief. We explore clowning, ballet, silence, and why physical comedy still cuts deeper than dialogue.🩰 Amy Raitman — PleaseDon’tCatchMeWhenIFall A daring contemporary dance work bringing together performers three decades apart in age. Amy reflects on risk, improvisation, agency, and why young women’s perspectives remain urgent on stage.🔥 Open Room Theatre — Ripe A late-night Sydney story of two 18-year-olds navigating power, ownership and danger on New Year’s Eve. The cast discuss why these themes remain painfully current and why we so often centre powerful men instead of the girls.Plus: Fringe highlights from Gluttony Gala, Slingsby at the Botanic Gardens, Ladyboys of Bangkok, Celestial Gardens, and more.From audience-led theatre to mime romance to generational dance, this episode is a reminder that live performance is unpredictable, intimate and electric.🎧 Recorded on Kaurna land. 🎭 Adelaide Fringe 2026. 📍 The Arts Garden on 3D Radio.

Send us Fan MailFringe season is almost underway and so are the big cultural questions.In this pre-Fringe edition of The Arts Garden Podcast, James and Bronwin speak with artists confronting politics, identity, mental health and community in 2026.🎭 Martha Lott (Holden Street Theatres) on The Debate, class satire in Eat the Rich, and why this year’s Fringe is bold, political and provocative.📷 Alex Frayne (Adelaide Festival) on photographing America as an empire in slow decline; a three-month road trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans, shot on analogue film and transformed into an immersive LED exhibition.🎤 Gillian Cosgriff on existential crisis, audience advice, and why humans still beat AI when it comes to wisdom.🧠 Holly "Cookie" Baker & Travis Demsey on creatives and wellbeing: burnout, comparison culture, gig economy pressure and redefining success in the arts.🔥 Uncle Moogy Sumner on the Dupang Festival at the Coorong: cultural healing, land connection and rebuilding community through dance and story.From Fringe theatre to empire decline. From Harvard ambitions to Murray Mouth ceremony From artistic burnout to collective renewal.If you care about art, politics, creativity and staying sane in chaotic times, this one’s for you.

Send us Fan MailFringe is almost here and Episode Four of The Arts Garden dives straight into the heart of it.We begin in the gardens with Sacred Resonance, exploring illuminated landscapes, heart-coherence installations and immersive sound baths that blur the lines between nature, frequency and connection.Then it’s dance, collaboration and creative risk with Alex Kuijpers, bringing three distinct works to Adelaide Fringe from cosmic queer horror in Astral Ghost Orchid to the improvised energy of It’s Alive and the next-gen choreographers of New Romantics.From Belfast at 7am, Raymond Walsh of The Shamrocks joins us ahead of their month-long Adelaide Fringe run: five voices, Irish harmony, and a message of unity shaped by Northern Ireland’s history and resilience.We also speak with Dr. Mark Rogers (re:group) about POV, an innovative Adelaide Festival work blending live filmmaking and theatre in an unrehearsed exploration of parenting, mental health and separation.And finally, UK performer Hannah Maxwell reflects on autobiographical theatre, vulnerability in the age of Baby Reindeer, and bringing I Am Dram and BabyFleaReindeerBag to Fringe.This episode moves from cosmic frequencies to community theatre, from improvised dance to unrehearsed drama; a reminder that art, in all its forms, is about connection.🌿 Adelaide Fringe. 🎭 Adelaide Festival. 🎶 Stories, spectacle and sincerity.New episode out now.

Send us Fan MailThis episode of Arts Garden dives head-first into Adelaide Fringe season, with conversations spanning grief, circus, comedy, and the realities of making creative work sustainable.We’re joined first by Melissa and Connor from CRAM Collective, who introduce their new Fringe work Meteors. Developed through a residency at The Mill, the show explores how young people experience grief; the silences around it, the awkward kindness of casseroles and lasagnes, and the long journey that begins after the funeral. Drawing on lived experience, Meteors makes space for grief that is tender, funny, unresolved, and deeply human. The conversation touches on ritual, memory, care, and why grief doesn’t disappear; it changes shape.We also hear from Eva Seymour, Melbourne actor and writer, bringing her acclaimed solo show The Understudy to Adelaide Fringe. Eva reflects on the strange psychological territory of being perpetually “almost on stage”: the tension between gratitude and frustration, waiting and ambition, and what happens when an artist puts their life on hold for something outside their control. The discussion moves through acting, writing, theatre versus screen, and the freedom (and terror) of making solo work.Later in the episode, we speak with the full lineup behind The Diversity Quota, a sharp, self-aware stand-up showcase interrogating representation, identity, and workplace culture. The comedians discuss how the show came together, why comedy is uniquely suited to tackling taboo topics, and how leaning into awkwardness can create something generous rather than tokenistic.Finally, the episode features a conversation with Lachlan Binns from Gravity & Other Myths, reflecting on growing up in circus, touring internationally, and presenting two Fringe shows this year: The Mirror and Ten Thousand Hours. Lachlan talks about mastery, repetition, technology, play, and why the process behind a spectacular moment can be more interesting than the moment itself.Across the episode, Arts Garden explores:how artists sit with grief and uncertaintywhy Fringe matters for new and risky workthe labour behind creative excellenceand what it means to keep choosing art in difficult conditionsGuests: CRAM Collective (Melissa & Connor) · Eva Seymour · The Diversity Quota · Lachlan Binns (Gravity & Other Myths)Recorded on: Arts Garden, 3D Radio 93.7FM

Send us Fan MailEpisode 2 — Arts Garden: Fringe curation, cosmic art, comedy bodies, and expanded soundEpisode Two of Arts Garden is firmly in Adelaide Fringe mode, moving between curation, creation, and the different ways artists make meaning in a noisy world.We’re joined by Joanne Hartstone (Joanne Hartstone Presents), marking 20 years at Adelaide Fringe, to talk through her 2026 program — from intimate, high-impact theatre and myth-driven storytelling to new work designed to “catch fire” in small rooms. Joanne reflects on curation as care, longevity in Fringe, and why the best work colours us in rather than shouting at us.The conversation then turns to Splendour: The Transcendental Experience of Nature, with curator Jessica Curtis and Wirangu/Kokatha mixed-media artist Ashleigh Anne Bruza. Together they explore art as a bridge between spirituality, science, culture and Country — touching on sacred geometry, plant communication, ancestral knowledge of the stars, and the importance of culturally safe, judgement-free creative spaces.We also hear from Nicola Brown, award-winning New Zealand comedian and clinical psychologist, whose Fringe show Space Invaders uses sharp, fearless comedy to explore bodies, health, identity and power — blending humour, social commentary and radical honesty in a way that’s both confronting and deeply humane.And we preview the sound world of Liana Perillo, Melbourne-based harpist, vocalist and composer, whose electro-acoustic harp quartet expands the instrument through pedals, strings and layered textures — creating music that’s immersive, emotionally precise, and quietly experimental.Along the way, James and Bronwyn reflect on:why Fringe still matters for risky, intimate workhow art reconnects us to bodies, nature and attentionand what it means to listen — properly — in uncertain timesGuests: Joanne Hartstone · Jessica Curtis · Ashleigh Anne Bruza · Nicola Brown · Liana Perillo Recorded on: Arts Garden, 3D Radio 93.7FMSubscribe for weekly conversations with artists, curators and cultural workers — and the thinking behind the shows.

Send us Fan MailEpisode 1 — Arts Garden: Fringe warm-up (Burlesque, Latin Surrealism, and theatre that moves)Welcome to Arts Garden with James and Bronwyn:  your weekly scan of what’s happening across Adelaide’s arts scene, with an eye on what’s coming up at Adelaide Fringe.In Episode 1, we’re joined by Miss Teaser Amore (Teaser Productions) to talk about two Fringe shows: RnB Burlesque (a Sunday night showcase designed to spotlight emerging performers) and The Burlesque Hoe Down (a country-themed crowd-pleaser heading to Gluttony — with a little end-of-show audience boogie).Then we meet Adelaide-based Colombian artist Nahlla, who introduces her Fringe work Latin Surrealism — a live music experience inspired by Chía, the Muisca goddess of the moon, blending drums, gaita flute, and Colombian rhythms with themes of migration, mental health, women’s empowerment, and hope.We also hear from Michael Eustice of Red Phoenix Theatre, whose company specialises in staging plays that haven’t previously been performed in Adelaide. Michael shares how their high-energy Promenade of Shorts was born from COVID restrictions — and why audiences keep asking for it to return.Plus: a few off-mic arts-week reflections, including music chatter and the strange theatre of press interviews.Subscribe for weekly interviews, local highlights, and the conversations behind the shows.Guests: Miss Teaser Amore · Nahlla · Michael Eustice Recorded on: Arts Garden (3D Radio 93.7FM)