This year marks the 10th time local arts critics have teamed up to honor achievements on the local cultural scene, and the Critics Table will mark the occasion by founding the Austin Arts Hall of Fame. Contributing nominations for the 2001-02 season - which ended April 30 - were Austin American-Statesman staff reporters Michael Barnes and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin (arts), and freelance writers Jamie Smith Cantara (theatre), Sondra Lomax (dance), David Mead (music), and Moira Muldoon (theatre), and Austin Chronicle writers Rob Curran (theatre), Robi Polgar (music and theatre), and yours truly. As the informal affiliation of local arts writers gathered to put together nominations for the 2001-02 Critics Table Awards, they found so much exceptional work they wished to recognize, they opted to expand the size of the categories to include up to 10 nominees. That essentially describes the reaction of the Austin Critics Table to the last year in the arts. We came, we saw, we liked an awful lot of it. Soon it will be cold and we’ll move inside, but for now we’re transfixed by these air currents that have the trees in the fields waving in joy, then swirling up the hills and across the mountains.Īfter the remote West and South, and after the grand and windswept highlands, I am unsure of resuming life in metropolitan Sydney with its millions of inhabitants.īut slipping into the water for a night swim in Bronte, in the city’s glamorous eastern beach suburbs, houses glittering where the land rises behind and to each side, but all dark ahead and down, it’s clear that here, too, are nature’s portals to the sublime.2001-02 Critics Table Award nominee Jason Liebrecht in El Paraiso, recipient of 13 nominations Paddocks ahead, some with sheep and others empty, stretch miles to where low ranges line the horizon, between which strong winds sweep the grasses and whirl the trees, everything in motion. My friend and I sit in silence, a dog beside us, sipping beer and watching the arena of here. One of Australia’s most cherished films, 1987’s “The Year My Voice Broke,” was shot in Braidwood, starring a teenage Ben Mendelsohn (“The Dark Knight Rises,” “Bloodline,” “Captain Marvel”), a sweet coming-of-age drama that exploited to full advantage the beguiling luminosity of the High Country. Late the next day, we sit in the twilight on the front porch of her farmhouse, about 12 miles outside the town of Braidwood.
Lo! A pearl.įrom Tasmania, I take the overnight ferry to Melbourne and then drive with a friend hundreds of miles north into the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, losing a headlight in the wee hours to a collision with a suicidal kangaroo. But two or three oysters in, my teeth crunch on something hard.
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