Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side.
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Ruth is an organiser. She became one of Australia’s first In-house PCOs through her work as a Practice Manager for a group of doctors then went on to manage a number of medical associations. Ruth went on to run numerous medical meetings on her own before joining ICMS Australia and then Pharma Events. But Ruth is also a traveller and a journalist – these, and many more attributes, she …
September 21, 2021
Andrew Walsh is a storyteller who has produced some of the biggest events in Australia and the world. In this wide ranging interview we cover how Andrew started in theatre in Melbourne while still at school then worked on various theatre productions including the original production of Rocky Horror in Melbourne. After moving to Sydney, Andrew worked for David Beal at Audience Motivation which at the time was the …
September 14, 2021
This week we revisit the interview with Johnny Allen We start with Johnny’s career running music venues in Sydney and the 1973 Aquarius Festival in Nimbin. Then a year in New York and London as part of the arts and music scenes – especially the emerging punk movement (hanging out with The Ramones and the Sex Pistols among others). Back to Sydney and the thriving cabaret scene including the …
September 7, 2021
Di Henry’s first parade involved 1000 sheep and a bullock train trundling through the Sydney CBD to promote the Royal Easter Show, and she brought out Robosauraus to the RES. From that she went on to Mardi Gras parades and then the 2000 Sydney Olympic torch relay followed by a dozen more Olympics, Commonwealth and Asian Games relays. Di spent 2012 in England organising events for the City of …
August 31, 2021
To coincide with this week’s Tokyo Paralympics here is the second half of the interview with Sandy Hollway where he reflects on the highlights of the Sydney Olympics (including that heart stopping cauldron moment). Post Olympics, Sandy kept in touch with the event industry as a head of the judging panel for the Australian Event Awards and has maintained his passion for indigenous issues and indigenous arts in particular. …
August 24, 2021
Libbie Ray left school at 15 to become an apprentice chef in her father’s restaurant. Today she is co-owner of AV24/7 and expanding the business in the time of COVID. Join Libbie on her journey from growing up on the Hawkesbury River, via restaurants and venues, to television studios and then into the event industry. At one stage Libbie decided to try her hand a sales – turns out …
August 17, 2021
Born in the north of England Karen came to Australia as a ten pound Pom. Karen Bollinger takes to the stage for the AIME “Strictly Melbourne” event Karen remembers that her school reports mentioned that she talked too much in class, really. Studying German, French and Japanese at school certainly came in useful in her later corporate life. Following high school Karen went to Ryde Catering College with the …
August 2, 2021
As we are back into lockdown I’ve taken the opportunity to get some more interviews completed. The new interviews will be dropped each four weeks with repeats from last year in between. Darryl Lovegrove is a singer and an entrepreneur. His singing career started in the school choir – he featured as a soloist on a recording made by the choir. Darryl went on to be a pop singer …
July 27, 2021
Part two of the interview with Roslyn Mcleod looks a the Olympics and the 21st century
July 20, 2021
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Update 19th May
Welcome to this week’s update MEA Awards program The MEA awards program appears to be struggling to make a comeback after COVID. NSW is always the strongest state in the MEA awards program but this week’s presentation saw an underwhelming list of winners with many of the 37 award categories not contested. I’ve heard that the Victorian awards was similarly underrepresented. Let’s hope the membership bounces back to support …