Episode 8, Season 2 of The ARTery, your main line to the heart of Melbourne arts. This season is all about the inaugural Refuge Festival hosted by the Motley Bauhaus. On today’s episode your host May Jasper conducts an exit interview with festival organiser Jason Cavanagh about the festival that was, closed for business but not gone from our hearts. And as always the Artery is made possible by the generous support of The City of Yarra.

Episode 7, Season 2 of The ARTery, your main line to the heart of Melbourne arts. This season is all about the inaugural Refuge Festival hosted by the Motley Bauhaus. On today’s episode your host May Jasper interviews musician Misha Doumnov about Urg, an improv music collective, plus a little more live music from SARAY Iluminado. And as always the Artery is made possible by the generous support of The City of Yarra.

Episode 6, Season 2 of The ARTery, your main line to the heart of Melbourne arts. This season is all about the inaugural Refuge Festival hosted by the Motley Bauhaus. On today’s episode your host May Jasper interviews Ghana-born visual artist Emmanuel Asante, plus a review of the theatre show Iranian Bauhaus. And as always the Artery is made possible by the generous support of The City of Yarra.

Episode 5, Season 2 of The ARTery, your main line to the heart of Melbourne arts.  This season is all about the inaugural Refuge Festival hosted by the Motley Bauhaus.  On today’s episode you host May Jasper interviews Iranian Australian theatre maker, puppeteer and storyteller Elnaz Sheshgelani plus there’s an unasked for diatribe on the nature of refuge from an ignorant Australian, your host, May Jasper.  And as always the Artery is made possible by the generous support of The City of Yarra.

Episode 4, Season 2 of The ARTery, your main line to the heart of Melbourne arts.  This season is all about the inaugural Refuge Festival hosted by the Motley Bauhaus.  In this episode our host May Jasper interviews Salvadorian Australian musician and one half of the duo Good Luck Omen Diego Villalta and Afghani visual artist and miniaturist Zakiria Tahirian And as always the Artery is made possible by the generous support of The City of Yarra.

Episode 3, Season 2 of The ARTery, your main line to the heart of Melbourne arts.  This season is all about the inaugural Refuge Festival hosted by the Motley Bauhaus.  In this episode our host May Jasper interviews Egyptian born visual artist Tadros Hanna, and there’s music from SARAY Iluminado Femme, recorded live at Haus Musik. And as always the Artery is made possible by the generous support of The City of Yarra.

Episode 2, Season 2 of The ARTery, your main line to the heart of Melbourne arts.  This season is all about the inaugural Refuge Festival hosted by the Motley Bauhaus.  In this episode our host May Jasper interviews Motley Bauhaus majordomo and Refuge Festival kingpin Jason Cavanagh about the inspiration and ethos behind the festival. And as always the Artery is made possible by the generous support of The City of Yarra.

Welcome to season 2 of the Artery! Your main line to the heart of Melbournes arts.  This season is all about the inaugural Refuge Festival hosted by the Motley Bauhaus.  In this first episode our intrepid host May Jasper interviews Nela Trifkovic the front person of teh Saray Illuminadi Trio playing for the return of Haus Musik. We also talk to Aseel Abdel Khaleq who is one of the artists contributing to the Refuge Fine Art show. What a line up, what a podcast, what a festival! And as always the Artery is made possible by the generous support of The City of Yarra.

On today’s episode May looks back on the Fringe that was with lord and master of the Motley Bauhaus Jason Cavanagh. Plus one last, very special, artist interview. And as always remember, the ARTery podcast is brought to you with the support of the City of Yarra. And also, just remember you’re the one thing I can’t get enough of, I’ll tell you something this could be love, because I’ve had the time of my life.

On this episode, I have an in depth chat with reviewer and total Fringe devotee Myron My, and he tells me about the festival's works of interactive theatre that I completely missed, and a few final shows we should all catch before the circus leaves town. The ARTery podcast is brought to you with the support of the City of Yarra.