Thursdays 5 - 6 pm (fortnightly)

Presented by Lou Smith, Jacqui Brown and Nicole Hurtubise

The DIY Arts show focuses on experimental, independent community and grassroots art forms that are under-funded, misrepresented or non-existent in the corporate media and regularly features live independent and under- represented music, predominately from Melbourne.

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DIY Arts alternates fortnightly with The Comic Spot

Thursday, 8 July

Lou and Nicole talk to Bindi Cole about her exhibition Sista Girls.   With a special Zine & Heard segment featuring Melissa from Kenneth Zine.

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17 June RADIOTHON SHOW:

We had a great crew join us to celebrate the amazing year we have had promoting and exploring local music, art, craft and comics.

Thursday,10 June

Maddy Phelan reads from the zine Ladybeard and talks about gender and the experience of reconstructing identity. Comic artist Alex Pavlotski reads a "cease & desist" letter he received regarding Link vs Cloud, a comic written as a Dojinshi (fan fiction) while he was studying comic art in Japan. We will also be revealing all of the awesome prizes we have to give away when you donate to our Radiothon show next week!

Thursday, 27 May

Lauren Brincat discusses her installation Shine on You Crazy Diamond, currently showing as part of Next Wave and Lindsay Phillips closes the show with some spooky, beautiful songs from his new album Varning.

Thursday, 27 May

Lauren Brincat discusses her installation Shine on You Crazy Diamond, currently showing as part of Next Wave and Lindsay Phillips closes the show with some spooky, beautiful songs from his new album Varning.

Thursday, 13 May

DIY Arts welcome Jacqui Brown back to radioland!  Nicole and Jacqui chat with Next Wave artists Katie and Olga from the multi media performance Pull My String and I Will Play For You as well as Matthew Day from the dance piece Thousands.  Casey Jenkins of The Craft Cartel joins us to talk about some exciting new plans for The Tote's sticky carpet.

Thursday, 29 April 

Sarah from Batrider called up to chat about touring Australia, her upcoming exhibition which includes a larger than life size statue of Anna Nicole Smith as well as the differences between living in London and Adelaide. Plus a whole lot of great music.

Thursday, 15 April

Beci Orpin joins us to chat about the Infinite Shape of Rainbows.  Natalie van den Dungen and Nicole Rogers share their epic six year journey making a doco about The Tote.  On Zine & Heard,  Pat Grant reads from Lumpen Proletariat Issue 6.  

>>>>>>>waaaaaaay back!

Thursday, 8 October

Fringe Festival Wind-up! Susan Bamford-Caleo & Kaya Prpic join Nicole to talk about book sculpture, costumes and the transformation of a bookstore, all in the exhibition Liminal.  Tom Ballard talks about growing up young, gay and hilarious in small town Victoria.

Thursday, 1 October
Nicole talks with Johnette Napolitano about pro tools, the state of feminism today, vampires and Jim Carroll

Thursday, 17 September
Lou and Nicole are joined by David Tyndall with the latest from Dancehouse in Carlton.  Also joined by Briohny Dolye to talk about her one woman Fringe show Meet Me at the End. 

Thursday, 10 September

Lou and Nicole talk with with author Lisa Dempster about hiking the henro michi, a 1200 kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan from her latest book Neon Pilgrim

Thursday, 6 August
Lou and Nicole chat with poets Emily Zoe Baker, Wendy Fleming (Former President of the Melbourne Poets’ Union), and Jeltje about La Mama Poetica ‘Memory and Imagination’. Also playwright Bryan Davidson Blue discusses the play ‘Matilda’s Waltz’

Thursday, 16 July
Dance, Dance and Theatre with Ballet Lab's Phillip Adams, Chunky Move dance artist Brian Lucas and Stuart Dalman of the History Boys.

Thursday, 2 July
Speaking with Gabrielle Nankivell about her latest dance peice I Left My Shoes On Warm Concrete and Stood in the Rain.  Charles Donahue stopped by to chat about home recording and play a few songs.

Thursday 18 June
We spoke to Alana Clifton-Cunninghabout her latest Craft victoira Exhibition; Liz Caffin about her upcoming show of etchings Prendimi se puoi!.   Julian Crotti and Duncan Luke popped in for a chat about Tom the Loneliest at La Mama Theatre. 

Thursday 11 June
Radiothon madness with Nicole, John, Benrnard and special musical guest Matt Bailey.

Thursday 4 June
Nicole spoke with Josie Parrelli and Natasha Boyd, co-directors of The Essondon Theatre Company's upcoming performance, Things Are Not What They Seem, a collection of one act plays about Smoking, Eating Disorders and the chaos of life.

Thursday 7 May 2009|
We spoke with I-Sufferaz about crumping and the upcoming film documentary Kingdom of Crump. 
Also joining us was Sarah Berry from the 24 hour Play Festival.

Thursday 27 April 2009
Lisetta Moscardo from ACMI spoke about A series of Firsts: a Digital Storytelling Project '100 years of Victorian women's right to vote', including film screenings and a panel discussion celebrating the Centenary of Women's Vote.

Thursday 16 April 2009
Grant from Hyper Color Castle came bywith a little free-style and to tell us about the Felt Tip Pen Show.

Arlene Texta Queen told us some pretty funny jokes so we wouldn't cry over Apopcalypse Ahoy the final show at Brunswick Bound Gallery.

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The Comic Spot on the DIY Arts Show

Tune into The Comic Spot hosted by John Retallick oevery second Thursday on the DIY Arts Show. John will be interviewing comic makers, graphic novel artists and cartoonists.