Culture

  • Postcolonial perspective

    Who Is The Right To Know
    Macarena Ruiz, artist
    Trocadero Artspace, level 1, 119 Hopkins Street, Footscray
    November 7-24

  • Violeta Parra - mother of the New Chilean Song Movement

    Chile, that thin strip of land lulled to sleep by the Pacific and the Andes, has given birth to many people that have left their mark in the hearts of millions all across the planet: the Nobel Prize winners Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, the amazing composer Victor Jara, tortured and assassinated by Pinochet, our comrade Salvador Allende — and one of the greatest exponents of Chilean music, Violeta Parra.

  • Understanding Iraq

    The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
    By Patrick Cockburn
    Verso, 2006
    229 pages, $49.95 (hb)

  • On the Box

    The Book that Shook the World — The Little Red School Book has been described as "essentially a manual for kids on how to challenge the authority of the school system". SBS, Friday, November 2, 8.30pm. Australia by Numbers: Brewarrina 2839 —

  • God not great? Neither is Onfray!

    The Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam
    By Michel Onfray
    Melbourne University Press, 2007
    219 pages, $32.95

  • A play about 'playing house'

    Dead Money
    Written & directed by Paul Gilchrist
    With Ali Davies, Brett Ellwood, Daniela Giorgi, John Maynard & Dave Tibbles
    TAP Gallery, Paddington, Nov 1-18
    $24/$18
    Bookings, phone (02) 9328 4321 or 0434 924 262

  • On th Box

    The World in 50 Years — A vision of the political and environmental state of our planet in 50 years' time. SBS, Saturday, October 27, 7.30pm. The Big Lie — A working-class mother of four takes on a global tobacco giant, in an attempt to gain

  • Poem: The Cry of Killalea

    I am a mystical Strand
    between frenzied burgeon and wide waters
    I am a decompression chamber
    A pristine zone borrowed from Poseidon, till again,
    he angers and commands large loyal swells to reclaim me,
    with foam and sand and mermaid’s hair