| THE OWL & THE PUSSYCAT: This one-woman show is a nicely rounded piece of theatre that contrasts modern dating dilemmas with the portrayals of love in the novels of Jane Austen.
| NEXT WAVE: Daniel Santangeli’s post-apocalyptic museum of civilisation ropes in its audience to create a melancholy, humorous and thoroughly enjoyable live art work.
| CARRIAGEWORKS: An astonishing piece of physical theatre about the preservation of our fragile planet.
| THE NEW THEATRE: Sydney playwright Melita Rowston takes us on a fast-paced, acerbic Gen X ride that drags the ‘lost child’ of Australian myth into the 21st century.
| FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS: Laurence Strangio’s interpretation of Chekhov aspires to sweeping grandeur but doesn’t quite make the distance, with its mismatched cast and logistical failings taking a toll on the production.
| Anna Lumb (AKA Anna The Pocket Rocket) is an international artist specialising in circus, theatre and comedy.
| Maude Davey is a writer, director, singer and actor, renowned for her nail gun monologues and charming, disarming, iconoclastic, political diatribes.
| Anand Patwardhan has been making political documentaries for nearly three decades pursuing diverse and controversial issues that are at the crux of social and political life in India.
| Benjamin Gilmour was born in Germany in 1975, but has lived most of his life in Australia where he works as an ambulance paramedic, filmmaker and writer.
| Bruce Petty is one of Australia's greatest political cartoonists. He won an Oscar for 'Leisure' in 1976. His latest film 'Utopia' is screening at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival.
| In her last year as Director of the Emerging Writers' Festival, Lisa Dempster leaves a legacy of breaking the boundaries of the written word.
| New Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley has worked on film festivals in five continents. Now he has a chance to show how he became the festival's first non-Australian director.
| The film industry is often perceived as one of the most glamorous industries there is. But what’s it really like to work on site? We discover the joys and stresses of location management.
| A recently published study suggests that self-deception inhibits laughter.
| With the release this week of the Independent Review of the Australia Council for the Arts a new National Cultural Policy is one step nearer to release. But is it now or never?