Eli Beverley-Schack has lived in Sydney since he was 11 years old. A string of men’s hair salons suited his gregarious, extrovert personality. He and his wife travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe, collecting memories.
Now retired, Eli enjoys his rooftop apartment in Neutral Bay, looking across to the city he loves, and reading. Always reading. He still travels frequently with his new partner, and enjoys harbour-side walks, attending live music venues, independent theatre, and is a regular presence at cinemas across Sydney. He enjoys festivals, obscure art movies, movies, national theatre productions and everything that the Sydney cultural scene offers.
He walks to local libraries to select books appealing to his latest interests, whether it be history, travel, politics, biographies, reads reviews of movies, journals and much more, and enjoys taking photos of the skies above his beloved city that litter his Facebook feed.
Eli observes. He sees. He goes beyond the superficial, and he shares.
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The Italian Consulate with the Italian Istitute de Cultura hosted a powerful civic and cultural event.
Dramatist and actor, Diana Hobel rendered a strident emotive theatrical reading based on texts by Primo Levi and Hermann Langbein with original piano music …
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In my Jewish world the cultural aspects of Judaism played the major role over the religious or spiritual aspects. So graduating from cultural Jew to learning what it really means to be a Jew makes my journey, hers and the …
Michael Gowenda wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald that Nikki Savaa is known in journalistic circles as not relying on anonymous sources for her examination on any subject she is commenting on. Her sources are named. They speak for …
Through the ups and downs of the 1970s came an epic era that went down as one of the best decades in history.
Presented by the rocking SSO, the country’s leading orchestra with dynamic conductor Carlo Antonioli, the Hordern …
For a novel written in the 1770s, it is remarkably modern in ways it addresses what are still very real issues. Diderot’s novel began life as a hoax to lure a friend back to Paris from his country estate. He …
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This is a dark comedy to its core, with a deliberately hyperbolic style. Though the screenplay is clever, director Park Chan- wook does much of his storytelling non-verbally, through sight gags, set design, action choreography and visual effects. Everything we …