RTRFM Special Projects

RTRFM 92.1 interrupted its usual broadcast on Saturday, November 21st to be front and centre at the Boola Bardip - Museum Opening. Danae and Taylah spoke with WA museum CEO Alec Coles, Museum Project Director Trish McDonald, the recipient of the 2020 Young Australian of the Year award Yarlalu Thomas and other incredible curators of Boola Bardip. In Part three Taylah speaks to Stephen Anstey, Co-Curtaor of the Collections Gallery and the History Department Collection. We also speak to Xavier Leenders, Assistant Curator of Anthropology. Xavier has put together a wonderful space within the Collections Gallery to speak about and showcase our reach Migration and Refugee history. and finally we speak to Aisha Novakovich and Abdulrahim Elmi from Roots TV who have created a piece in the Reflections Gallery to discuss how different cultures engage with food and the process of how we make meals as families, friends and members of society.

RTRFM 92.1 interrupted its usual broadcast on Saturday, November 21st to be front and centre at the Boola Bardip - Museum Opening. Danae and Taylah spoke with WA museum CEO Alec Coles, Museum Project Director Trish McDonald, the recipient of the 2020 Young Australian of the Year award Yarlalu Thomas and other incredible curators of Boola Bardip. In the second part of our broadcast we speak to Ian Cameron, who for the last 52 years has been keeping the the grapevine in front of the old goal alive. Planted in the later 1800's, Ian has kept the vine alive and throughout construction attended to make sure nothing went wrong. We also speak to the owner of Connections Nightclub, Tim Brown. A mainstay in the WA music and nightclub scene for 45 years, Connections is the longest running nightclub in the southern hemisphere and features heavily on the story of WA within the Museum. And finally we speak to MC for the day Yarlalu Thomas. A proud Nyangumarta man who is the 2020 Young West Australia of the year.

RTRFM 92.1 interrupted its usual broadcast on Saturday, November 21st to be front and centre at the Boola Bardip - Museum Opening. Danae and Taylah spoke with WA museum CEO Alec Coles, Museum Project Director Trish McDonald, the recipient of the 2020 Young Australian of the Year award Yarlalu Thomas and other incredible curators of Boola Bardip. In Part One we speak to the CEO of the WA Museum Alec Coles, the man behind the big decisions and the head of a huge team that has brought the entire thing together. We also speak with Trish McDonald, Project Director of the WA Museum; the person who has been there from the onset, making sure the right nails are in the right place and the things inside tell our story. And finally we speak with Margo Neale, the lead Indigenous Curator of the National Museum of Australia. She has been at the forefront of the first major temporary exhibition at Boorla Bardip, the incredible Seven Sisters: a collaborative effort, seven years in the making, taking oral histories of creation from traditional custodians across Australia. The exhibition also features, paintings, sculptures and digital works.

RTRFM 92.1 disrupted its usual broadcast last Friday, September 20, to take part in the [Global Climate Strike.](https://www.facebook.com/GlobalClimateStrike/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARBsEF7fWhlIF6krJ1-2-BOx3DHX6T_O7vX2oUBGi92YXkUpq1iDOSl2q8jD5nygkKCV8qUYtAeth_jc&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD1wOCEzN8jbLg27NcXKtbsVX8_DGI_wtL_vKk4-AuPdLP9KFdaNBr8nL-0G_KHXxiRUPfH3AVHqXrZz6ZYWSaIHxkNc1nIn_VQfdsKch_P31Q-QMLhVczVPgKxN3oAmj-cc7PkQd6PiBL2NALixCHGHn4ePpDlfEtFkcAnS-yqGZHaK-1t9O7TqHHV0JHRHr8dSE0o_lPjYuWeAUiIxXi0qWAplqZChwNlIeUEupu4NrC7m6ErxasJwRSfWPUWtSK5FGm7YQoNa0hGYu8PRWf9y21nkBCHfk9WSn8Kc8ELECRugjvlNFtZzptNoKuIuKa1nmZLLiOY3ZNScw) The Global Climate Strike was formed in light of inaction on the parts of local and international politicians to announce a state of climate emergency, and to get the conversation moving on this incredible issue. The program played a selection of sound bites from an interview between youth climate activist Greta Thunberg and author and activist Naomi Klein, hosted by [The Intercept](https://theintercept.com/2019/09/06/greta-thunberg-naomi-klein-climate-change-livestream/) ahead of the Global Climate Strike. We also spoke with anti-nuclear activist [Dr Helen Caldicott](https://rtrfm.com.au/story/anti-nuclear-activism/), bee keeper and Teenovator [Luke De Laeter](https://rtrfm.com.au/story/climate-change-and-food-waste/) and Psychology For A Safe Climate founder and president [Carol Ride](https://rtrfm.com.au/story/psychology-for-a-safe-climate/). Plus vox pops from those attending the rally.

RTRFM 92.1 disrupted its usual broadcast last Friday, September 20, to take part in the [Global Climate Strike.](https://www.facebook.com/GlobalClimateStrike/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARBsEF7fWhlIF6krJ1-2-BOx3DHX6T_O7vX2oUBGi92YXkUpq1iDOSl2q8jD5nygkKCV8qUYtAeth_jc&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD1wOCEzN8jbLg27NcXKtbsVX8_DGI_wtL_vKk4-AuPdLP9KFdaNBr8nL-0G_KHXxiRUPfH3AVHqXrZz6ZYWSaIHxkNc1nIn_VQfdsKch_P31Q-QMLhVczVPgKxN3oAmj-cc7PkQd6PiBL2NALixCHGHn4ePpDlfEtFkcAnS-yqGZHaK-1t9O7TqHHV0JHRHr8dSE0o_lPjYuWeAUiIxXi0qWAplqZChwNlIeUEupu4NrC7m6ErxasJwRSfWPUWtSK5FGm7YQoNa0hGYu8PRWf9y21nkBCHfk9WSn8Kc8ELECRugjvlNFtZzptNoKuIuKa1nmZLLiOY3ZNScw) The Global Climate Strike was formed in light of inaction on the parts of local and international politicians to announce a state of climate emergency, and to get the conversation moving on this incredible issue. The day's programming featured a special live broadcast from the PICA bar near Perth's Cultural Centre from 10 to 11 AM, when the march started, as well as a special block of programming dedicated to interviews with climate activists from all backgrounds and a special edition of Revolver dedicated to socially conscious women in hip-hop. On the day, Breakfast's Taylah Strano was at the strike in Perth speaking to artists and activists attending the event, including PVI Collective co-founder Kelli McCluskey, Cool Change Contemporary co-founder Jess Boyce, musician Steve Aaron Hughes, independent artist Alex Desebrock and RTRFM's own Danae Gibson, about what attending the strike means to them and what we collectively stand to lose. The program also included interviews with various people in the climate activism sphere about what we can do on a macro and micro level to combat climate change, including interviews hosted earlier in the week on The Mag with School Strike 4 Climate organiser [Makaela Rowe-Fox](https://rtrfm.com.au/story/school-strike-4-climate-makaela-rowe-fox/), Conservation Council of WA spokesperson [Paddy Cullen](https://rtrfm.com.au/story/conservation-council-joining-the-global-climate-strike/) and spoke with with people attending the Global Climate Strike, including Greens WA Senator Jordon Steele-John, Extinction Rebellion WA's Annika DeRoy and Reuben Barclay and documentary director Damon Gameau.