This is my first post on here since iso time. Still unravelling my brain, and straightening up my house, after last year's challenges. But with this milder weather, and our inability to travel, comes the opportunity to get the house in order, practically and metaphorically. We managed to achieve a great deal during Covid time.…
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Video about Millicent Armstrong – for Gunning Arts Festival (online) 2020
I am sharing a short film which provides a good intro to Millicent Armstrong and her work, and was filmed outside a typical Aussie bush hut. The link is: https://vimeo.com/407038519 Please let the video fully load before starting playback. To save you slow buffering of the video, please go to settings wheel on the right hand side of…
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Interview on Living Arts Canberra – Millicent
Dianna Nixon was interviewed by Barbie Robinson from Living Arts Canberra. The interview has been added to the home page diary at: https://livingartscanberra.com.au/dianna-nixon-millicent/ It is also featured in the latest news slider at the top of the home page: https://livingartscanberra.com.au/ The interview is also on the podcasts page on Gunning Arts Festival Online https://livingartscanberra.com.au/gunning-arts-festival-online/ It…
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Help Millicent Armstrong’s plays onto the stage
Help get Millicent Armstrong's work back into the Australian literary and dramatic canon. Help put the Gunning & Goulburn region on the map as a place where great cultural stuff has happened, and where it will happen in the future. Arts and culture has a big part to play in rebuilding regional economies, wellbeing and…
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Estill Voice Training at The Oak Jan 2020
Estill Levels 1 & 2 Voice training came to to Canberra again in January 2020. A very diverse group worked 5 days fulltime with Naomi Eyers (Essential Voice) at The Oak in Dickson, and came out the other end with a huge amount of knowledge and awareness. Here we are with Liz Tilley (Liz Tilley…
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Music Theatre Projects Ltd – “creating works and creating work”
Launching in 2020, Dianna is setting up Music Theatre Projects Ltd. Big thanks go to artsACT who are supporting the incorporation phase of this new professional producing entity. It will operate from The Oak in Dickson, where Dianna has her private coaching studio. Dianna has chosen a fairly generic name as it…
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The Alices – with Canberra Youth Orchestra
Four members of the junior music theatre class Dianna Nixon teaches for the Kim Harvey School of Dance were selected to sing the role of Alice in a work by ANU academic and composer, Frank Millward. This saw them receive coaching from Frank and his partner (voice coach/performer/director/AMEB examiner) Heather Keens. A great learning experience…
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