About

Talking ArtZ – Radio Show & Podcast
Broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM | In association with the Enlivenment Network

Talking ArtZ is a weekly radio program and podcast that explores the vibrant intersections of art, culture, philosophy, and community—locally rooted in the Blue Mountains, yet resonating far beyond. Hosted by The Professor and broadcast live every Thursday from 6–7pm on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM, the show features rich, insightful conversations with artists, musicians, performers, curators, writers, cultural thinkers, and creative changemakers from across the region and beyond.

Now produced in collaboration with the Enlivenment Network, Talking ArtZ is deepening its commitment to exploring the transformative power of story, art, and dialogue in a time of profound planetary change. This partnership brings a new layer of philosophical and ecological inquiry to the program, guided by the Enlivenment Network’s core belief in Country as teacher and its dedication to reimagining culture, community, and creativity through Indigenous knowledge systems and postmodern ecological thought.

Each episode of Talking ArtZ is a lively and thoughtful exchange—celebrating the power of creativity not just as personal expression, but as a vital force for collective transformation. Whether showcasing an emerging artist, unpacking a major exhibition, or diving into the big cultural questions of our time, the show invites listeners to engage with the arts as a living, breathing part of our social and ecological world.

🎧 The Podcast Archive
After broadcast, episodes are made available as a podcast—giving audiences everywhere access to the ever-growing Talking ArtZ archive, a rich tapestry of past conversations covering diverse artforms, creative practices, and cultural movements.

Simply search “Talking ArtZ”, hit subscribe, and stay connected to the pulse of arts and culture in the Blue Mountains.

Talking ArtZ is part of a broader community media effort to uplift local voices, celebrate cultural diversity, and foster dialogue around the role of creativity in navigating the challenges and possibilities of our times. Tune in and join the conversation.

The Talking Art Project

Artists often work in isolation, and the aloneness can lead to a kind of self or process-absorbed madness. After artists leave the collegiate world of creative arts education, they have to find within themselves the will to succeed, to find that thing just around the corner that at long last makes what they do make sense.

In the great cities of the world like Paris, Berlin, New York and London, academies and salons provided training and opportunity for artists to exhibit. Similar places are part of the artistic legacy of Australia—Kings Cross and East Sydney in Sydney; Heidelberg and Montsalvat/Eltham in Melbourne and their more recent expressions in the nooks and crannies of inner city areas in our major cities. The haunts of painters, writers, philosophers, musicians where the exchange of ideas fostered movements and shaped the future of art and culture are part of the treasured heritage of society.

In today’s world of expensive inner city housing, with artists now living on the urban fringes, how do artists find other artists with whom they share values? How do they create opportunities for conversation and building a vision for the future of culture and the arts in their region, in Australia and the wider world?
How also do they network to find the right pigment, or access to a kiln or a life drawing class where models hold their pose for hours instead of minutes?
Guided by the insights of our Creative Leaders, the Talking Art Project will address this challenge. It will facilitate a series of gatherings in both the Upper and Lower Mountains led by leading thinkers and practitioners and local creatives whose work links to the themes that excite us:

Art and well-being – Art and living well in the age of anxiety, trauma and depression
Art and dangerous times – exploring disruptive impacts of technology
Art and culture—beyond the stranglehold of economism.

Shaping the Talking Art Project

The reboot of theTalkingArtZ Project in collaboration with RBM89.1FM and the Enlivenment Network e, began with a launch in combination with the Laneways Art Project being held on the 29th of January 29th, 2020.

Recently Talking ArtZ began a collaboration with the newly formed Enlivenment Network (enlivenment.network)
Media and Marketing Manager
brad@bmcan.com.au

You can listen to Talking ArtZ on your favourite podcast platform, including:Apple Podcasts

Google Podcasts
Amazon Music
Pocket Casts
and other major podcast directories.

The Enlivenment Network

We are a network of engaged individuals and organisations working to create a dynamic, ecologically healthy and socially just society, by spreading the seeds of a new/ancient way of being, thinking and doing—an ENLIVENMENT WORLDVIEW. In this we acknowledge that Australia’s cultural foundations rest on First Nations knowledge systems encoded in their relational ethos of Caring for Country, in all its multiple levels of meaning.