Fifty years ago, Joni Mitchell sang about going down to Yasgur’s farm, "To get back to the land and to try and set her soul free."
Her song Woodstock became emblematic of that iconic music festival, even though she didn’t actually get there.
We wonder, what was rock and roll historian Glenn A Baker doing during the August of 1969? We know what he’s doing to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of those three days of peace and music, he’ll tell us about it on this week’s episode of ‘Behind The Scenes’, a weekly look at the local arts scene broadcast across Vision Australia Radio network.
Back then, the world had problems that the younger generation wanted to solve. But has anything really changed?
Presenter Chris Thompson will ask creator and performer Emma Mary Hall whose new show World Problems opened at 45 Downstairs last week.
Meanwhile, at Monash University Museum of Art, there’s a huge exhibition event – The Shape of Knowledge - taking place. It looks at the intersection of art and knowledge through a wide range of events including performance lectures, participatory workshops and even a bus trip to a sustainable farm. What’s all that mean? The exhibition’s curator, Hannah Matthews enlightens us.
And then we’re off to the movies…first of all with the Director of the Alliance Francais French Film Festival, Michel Richard. Marc Gracie then joins the program to talk about recent documentaries, three of which will feature at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival (one that walked away with this year’s Oscar for Best Documentary).
That’s this week on Behind the Scenes, with Chris Thompson, on Vision Australia Radio.
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