Arts

Making all the right moves By Danielle Brigham To an outsider, the well-worn sneakers would seem at odds with the neat attire of Joanne Leighton. It's the first thing I notice when she enters the empty theatre space.

Lifelines of an Iraqi Poet By Eleanor Limprecht In the fifth grade, Hadi Kazwini discovered poetry.

Ballet rocks community By Suzanne Calla Images by Pascal Elliot Reaching out to the people and responding to their needs and values are the core of Sydney’s contemporary dance company, ‘Bondi Ballet’.

Dinosaurs in our backyard By Carol Warwick. If you’ve ever considered what the world would be like if we shared it with dinosaurs, then wonder no more. A dinosaur could be as close as the nearest gum tree.

Sit back and picture this By Mina Savjak. Sit back and picture this: A prominent deaf actor starring in a play about drugs, body image and pornography.

Noyce defends poster As a race debate ignites over the poster for Rabbit-Proof Fence, Jodi Wilson conducted this exclusive interview with its director, Phillip Noyce. Noyce spoke over the phone from Hollywood.

John Ralston Saul: Ethics and the Manager International author John Ralston Saul attacked university managers at the inaugural forum of the Australian Centre for Public Communication. A packed audience at the Powerhouse Museum heard Ralston Saul – in Sydney for last month’s Writers Festival – present a dissertation on the importance of ‘normalising ethics’. By David Grant

Solar powered art by Amber Forrest-Bisley

Queens of the Damned Kate Reeves spoke to some of the 250 Melbourne Goths who wowed the Hollywood film crew when they worked as extras on "Queen of the Damned", the movie sequel to An Interview with a Vampire, which was filmed in Melbourne recently.

Rubber Love: Language & Representations: HIV/AIDS in South- East Asia is an exploration of public health material culture from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, exploring language and representations in the promotion of safer sex campaigns. The exhibition opens in Sydney in late May 2001. Emma O'Brien reviews the exhibition.

Dancing Against Violence The Diversity Dance Theatre has been touring Australia to promote a violence-free society. Vanessa Welbourn speaks to one of their greatest supporters, Ruby Kargarian, whose son Shahab was murdered in a Sydney park last year.

Sydney Film Festival 2001 Barbara Karpinski and Damon Young review the array of films from Australia and abroad.

Celebration of the People In November this year, the grassy slopes of Parliament House will host Peoplescape, an artistic celebration of those who have helped shape our nation. Vanessa Welbourn gives a peek preview.

Mice and Modems
The struggle between civil rights activists and extremist hate groups has intensified. It is a war without borders; an archetypal battle of good and evil and its weapons are mere mice and modems. Jane Lyons reports.