Podcast appearances and mentions of candy bowers

SmartArts takes over the Triple R Performance Space for a very special broadcast to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary!Richard Watts OAM first brought Triple R's flagship morning arts program to life in December 2004, hosting hundreds of conversations every year with local artists, established talent and international touring legends from across the visual and performing arts spectrum. Listen back to this celebration of twenty years on the airwaves, broadcast live from the Triple R Performance Space, featuring an assortment of talent including: A live stand-up set and interview with comedian Tom Ballard. Berlin's "prince and pricess of art rock and Europop" Otto & Astrid who perform their track Tasty Snak. Bernard Caleo chooses his favourite comics of the year. An interview with photographer and visual artist Pia Johnson. Actor and theatremaker Candy Bowers performs YO MAMA SO PHAT from her show 'Australian Booty' (with music by Busty Beatz). Theatre icons Susie Dee and Patricia Cornelius read from Patricia's play SHIT, and chat theatre with reviewer Anne-Marie Peard. An interview with MTC's Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks. Comedian and musician Geraldine Quinn performs The Peel from 'The Last Gig in Melbourne'. Tai Snaith chooses her favourite exhibition of the year, and the past 20 years! And a chat with MQFF Program Director Cerise Howard. To listen back to the whole broadcast, including live music from Peggy Frew and Guy Blackman and the GBs, head to the Triple R website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/smartarts/episodes/31949-smartarts-20th-anniversary-special

Writer and performer Candy Bowers reveals the horrors of type 2 diabetes and its disproportionate effect on Black communities, in her afro-futuristic, genre-bending show, ‘Sweet Mama'; Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, AO, On her composition of ‘Eumeralla, a War Requiem for Peace,' written in the Gunditjmara language to commemorate Indigenous lives lost in the forgotten resistance war of Eumeralla, performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Lead artist Emilie Walsh on Laneway Learning's comic trails, featuring glow-in-the-dark comic panels illuminating city walls; Wellington-based dance-theatre artist, Daniel Nodder on his cosmic performance exploring the vast expanse of the universe in ‘Only Bones'.

This week's guest on the podcast is my mom, Candy Bowers.  She discusses her journey of starting a successful business & how she was able to retire early.  My mom also talks about how she got out of debt & has been able to live debt free.  Her knowledge on building a business will be very helpful to Realtors who are also building a business of their own!   Link to Bootcamp: agentXcelbootcamp.com Instagram: @chrisbowers_realestate 

Ash Flanders made his reputation with wildly funny, often surreal queer theatre made under the name Sisters Grimm with his creative partner Declan Greene. Now, Ash has put the glitter and wigs aside and written a new, naturalistic play called This Is Living.Also, multidisciplinary artist and "radical mischief-maker" Candy Bowers shares the works of art that have most inspired her journey on Top Shelf and we explore the themes of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Fleet Street with the Sydney Opera House cast.

Ash Flanders made his reputation with wildly funny, often surreal queer theatre made under the name Sisters Grimm with his creative partner Declan Greene. Now, Ash has put the glitter and wigs aside and written a new, naturalistic play called This Is Living. Also, multidisciplinary artist and "radical mischief-maker" Candy Bowers shares the works of art that have most inspired her journey on Top Shelf and we explore the themes of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Fleet Street with the Sydney Opera House cast.

Sunanda Sachatrakul takes on Candy Bowers! Sunanda will be familiar to regular Pop Queers listeners as both a returning guest and former producer of the show! They are a comedian,... LEARN MORE The post Pop Queers: Ep 75: Sunanda Sachatrakul vs Candy Bowers appeared first on Pop Queers.

Resident comic book artist Bernard Caleo returns to the studio for the first time since lockdown with this month’s Drawn Out, discussing Zach Snyder’s ‘Justice League’ cut, Taiyo Matsumoto’s ‘Ping Pong’ as well as Safdar Ahmed’s ‘Still Alive’, which Bernard helped publish. Drawn from the stories of refugees detained in the Villawood Immigration Detention centre, ‘Still Alive’ is based on the Walkley-award winning webcomic ‘Villawood: Notes from an immigration detention centre’.Dancer and former lawyer Rhys Ryan chats about 'Bodylex', a dance work exploring how our bodies navigate the laws and regulations imposed on them. Blending legal theory and choreography, this new work for three dancers will premiere at Dancehouse.Multidisciplinary artist Candy Bowers talks about 'TAKE BACK!', a co-production between MAV and Darebin FUSE festival featuring a team of female and gender-diverse artists of colour both onstage and behind the scenes. Including both live performances and digital content, the performance explores and challenges the racialized gaze.Finally, MTC CEO Brett Sheehy announces the company’s Act 2 program playing during the second half of this year: ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’, a comic Broadway turn on the nature of truth, ‘The Truth’, a dark comedy on marital troubles, ‘Sunday’, the story of Heide Museum of Modern Art founder Sunday Reed, ‘Jacky’, Green Room Award Winner Declan Furber Gillick’s MTC debut, ‘Cyrano’, a gender-flipped adaptation of the Edmond Rostand classic, and ‘As You Like It’, which reunites the creative team behind MTC hit ‘Twelfth Night’.

 Acknowledgement of country News Last week, Tecber Ahmed Salah, Head of African Union Department, Ministry of Public Health in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Oxfam Algeria Country Director, Haissam Minkara spoke with the Australian Western Sahara Association about the precarity and effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the Saharawi residents of Tindouf camps in Algeria.  Bobuq Sayed is a fiction writer, essayist, editor, and multidisciplinary artist. Their research interests include the War on Terror, fugitivity, queer and trans* studies, theories of place, and faggotry. On November 23rd they published A New Generation of Australian War Criminals in Meanjin online in response to the mainstream media coverage of the Brereton Report and war crimes perpetrated by the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan.  Candy Bowers joins us to speak about her podcast Multi-Hypho. Candy Bowers is a radical mischief-maker and award-winning cross-disciplinary artist born of South African political refugees. She has a long list of original works to her name, including Inna Thigh: The Sista She Story, The Naked MC, Hyper Fragility #why-are-white-men-so-defensive-lol, MC Platypus & Queen Koala's Hip Hop Jamboree, Who's That Chik?, Australian Booty, One The Bear and Hot Brown Honey Burlesque.  June Riemer, Deputy CEO of First Peoples' Disability Network, joins us to discuss the Disability Royal Commission from a First Nations perspective, focusing on the intersection between disability and child removal. SongsAziza Brahim Baraka 

The mixed race, gender-fluid and multi-talented Candy Bowers is launching a new exciting podcast, Multi-Hypho with support from Arts Centre Melbourne, Creative Victoria and bobb Creative. The actor, comedian, writer and director has created this […] http://media.blubrry.com/sunday_arts_magazine/p/joy.org.au/sundayarts/wp-content/uploads/sites/276/2020/11/Candy.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:37 — 21.3MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Candy Bowers talks to David Hunt appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.

In his recent documentary ‘2040’, speaking of the changes we’ll all need to make if we’re to save the planet, Damon Gameau says ‘transitions are awkward.’ If this is so, and we need to make a ton of them to survive, how do we help each other make them? What are the benefits of change? Why, and how, do we find it uncomfortable? How can we more openly approach it? Look back on this MTalks session, with educator-artist Kate Ellis and a panel comprising artists yoga teacher Lucienne Shanti; writer and actor Candy Bowers, and Chunky Move teacher and independent dancer/choreographer Sarah Aiken.

When did you realise there is power in your race? For more than half the year, we've been asking each guest that comes on Race Matters that very question. So we thought we'd run through a few of them. In this episode, you'll hear from Bhenji Ra, Nayuka Gorrie, Abdul Abdullah, Benjamin Law, Min Jin Lee, Glenny Thomas, Lena Nahlous, Rainbow Chan, Damian Griffis, Ying-Di Yin, Justin Tam, Vicki Van Hout, Joel Bray, Candy Bowers, Aanisa Vylet, Soo-min Shim, Felicia Foxx and Jordy Shea. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to all of our guests this year for their stories, wisdom, humour and vulnerability. And thank YOU for listening. Here's to big things in 2020! x

Black Cockatoo tells the story of Australia's first Indigenous sports star, cricketer Johnny Mullagh, we ask Australian creatives and performers to reflect on the last ten years of performing arts, Bernadette Robinson returns to Australia with Songs for Nobodies, and we share some seasonal cheer with Michael Cormick, Johanna Allen and the cast of Christmas Actually.

Black Cockatoo tells the story of Australia's first Indigenous sports star, cricketer Johnny Mullagh, we ask Australian creatives and performers to reflect on the last ten years of performing arts, Bernadette Robinson returns to Australia with Songs for Nobodies, and we share some seasonal cheer with Michael Cormick, Johanna Allen and the cast of Christmas Actually.

"A really hard (glass) ceiling gives you cuts and bruises" (breaking through it leaves scars)Candy Bowers Candy Bowers is an award-winning writer, actor, director, theatre maker, social-activist, comedian and producer. The artistic director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of lyrical theatre that delves into the heart of radical feminist dreaming. We cover. Background: South African | AustralianMaking people feel tension in performance Explaining the Apartheid Not just whats going on outside of us but also intra-community conversations Using the term Colonial Supremacy instead of white supremacy challenging the conservatism Female roles in theatre performance Perpetuating gender roles in theatrepreventing diabetes being the ultimate decolonisation: One the BearChanging relationship with food, challenging relationship with sex and women South Africans and diabetes and introduction of sugar "Spiritual underpinning of diabetes, is unrequited love" - Candy BowersEmpowering yourself, on others terms"The process of decolonisation is so much about self care and self loving...Pure nurture" - Candy Bowers , an opposition of the structure and binaries of colonials"You don't fight possession with possession" - Candy BowersGrowing self worth Legacies and monogamy Period blood and spinster-ism "Decolonisation isn't colonisation" (by a different group)Candy Bowers links: https://thecandybowers.blog/https://www.linkedin.com/in/candy-bowers-82876338/?originalSubdomain=auhttps://www.facebook.com/candy.bowershttps://twitter.com/TheCandyBowershttps://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/theatre/a-hip-hop-fairytale-worth-hearing-20190701-p522xq.html

Writer, performer and educator Candy Bowers chats Black Girl Magic, reclaiming narratives and tells us the best icebreaker idea we’ve ever heard – tried and tested.

Podcast: The Witness Interview with Candy Bowers. 'You are asking someone from the field into the house, and we are going to fight. Because I will always fight to decentralise the white patriarchy'

Podcast: The Witness Interview with Candy Bowers. 'You are asking someone from the field into the house, and we are going to fight. Because I will always fight to decentralise the white patriarchy' The post The Witness Interview: Candy Bowers appeared first on Witness Performance.

This week, Javaad Alipoor the creator of the work The Believers Are But Brothers, provides his insights on how young men are radicalised online. Director Thomas M Wright joins Richard to discuss his debut feature film, Acute Misfortune. Lastly, Arts Centre Melbourne Director Edwina Lunn and performer Candy Bowers stop by to talk about Big World, Up Close a curated series of theatre works.

Tuesday Breakfast 7 May 2019 7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country7.05 am Chris Woods with news headlines     7.15 am Apsara Sabaratnam, Greens candidate for the Senate, joins us to discuss the policies and reform she is passionate about, and about making the Australian parliament a more accessible space for women, particularly women of colour 7.30 am Lan Dugdale from Queerspace joins us in the studio. Lan chats to us about two new mentorship programs that Queerspace has started - A Place At the Table and the Polaris Mentoring Project, and why mentorship programs such as these are important for the LGBTIQA+ community7.45 am Candy Bowers joins us in the studio for a discussion about her show Australian Booty, disrupting the patriarchy, not accepting the institutions as they are and refusing to letting them define her, and her activism through her work.    8.00 am We play a pre-record of an interview with Aliya Ahmad about Democracy in Colour, the work they do to tackle structural racism, and their fundraiser.  8.10 am Roxanne Moore from Change the Record, Jessica Peters from the Federation of CLCs and Apryl Watson, daughter of Aunty Tanya Day, join us to talk about the Free Our Future event happening tomorrow, the Free Our Sisters Free Our Kids campaign, and the petition to decriminalise the offence of public drunkenness. song: Deeper   artist: Saint Cava   song: Miss Shiney artist: Kaiit song: Good As Hell  artist: Lizzo

Wednesday 30 January  2018  Today on the show with William and Eiddwen [segment times in brackets] || We at 3CR are proud to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung as the owners of the lands on which we meet, live, and work. We pay respect to their elders past, present, and emerging; we recognize that sovereignty has never been ceded and that a treaty has never been signed ||[19:00] Luke Sinclair from Sticky Institute gives us the lowdown on zines and how you can snag a whole bunch at this year's Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair. From 12-5pm on the weekend of the 8th and 9th of February, more than 230 zines and their creators will be filling up the Trades Hall, cnr Lygon and Victoria Streets, Melbourne || [33:04] Invasion Day Dawn Service: You've heard our coverage of all the events of Invasion Day, 26 January 2019 and if not, you can listen back to any of our shows that played last Saturday on the schedule. This morning, we hear from Jida Gulpilil, a Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Warrung, and Dhudhuroa educator, actor, and activist. Jida guides us through his experience of past Invasion Day protests, how he sees Australian society changing, and what spaces like the Dawn Service mean to him || [41:32] Living a Half Life: Impacted heavily by Australia's ever-shrinking refugee and humanitarian intake, as well as our cut in foreign aid spending, refugees trapped in Indonesia see their prospects darken by the day. Some are taking steps to do something about it. Mozhgan Moarefizadeh is a co-founder of the Refugee and Asylum Seeker's Information || [56:40] Multi-hyphenate performing artist, comedian, activist and educator Candy Bowers tells us about her upcoming workshop Decolonise and Moisturise, taking place tomorrow at 1pm at Melbourne Museum. Candy gives us an understanding of what self-care means and what it means to "moisturise" as a metaphor for replenishing and maintaining our energies and well-being||

The super talented, proud and passionate Nel Mama Boho joins us in the studio for Episode 21. Nel's impressive resume includes producer, writer, journalist, host, actor, poet and comedian! Her presence is pure fire. Sean starts off the show with a poem called 100 Cows, which was originally published in Going Down Swinging. Issue No. 24. Sean welcomes the incredible Nel Mama Boho into the studio. They almost immediately get into a suburb dust off as they discover they grew up in rival towns Frankston (Nel) and Mornington (Sean), or 'Frankston South' as Nel refers it as. LOL. Sean first experienced Nel's work as they were on the same bill for the R.A.P. Party event at Howler only two weeks earlier, programmed by Candy Bowers and originally founded out of England by Inua Ellams. You can watch Nel's performance right here. Nel also discusses her 2018 show Frankghanistan, see a promo clip for the show right here. Sean And Nel also discuss her development as a writer or 'diarist' as she likes to term it. And the origins of her powerful poem Run Bitch Run which Nel performs live in the Castaway Studios. Through running marathons Nel has so far raised over $21,000 for the Cathy Freeman Foundation. and through the foundation had the opportunity of meeting Cathy Freeman and watching the clip of Run Bitch Run with her personally. Nel mentions the amazing work of Life Apparel, showcasing indigenous art through all kinds of clothing and giftware and we want to give them a shoutout here too. WHELAN AND STEALIN' The segment where Sean and his guests read the works of other writers. Sean reads a poem called Sky Dancer by Emilie Zoey Baker. Nel Mama Boho reads a poem called Candy Royalle, Nel's mentoress for a year. REST IN POWER. MUSE OF THE WEEK POEMS Sean reads a poem called The Room of Lost Colours. This poem was inspired by three creative prompts by MTAW listeners. Thank you to our Muses of the Week. George Dunford - 'The hole under your house where discarded memories are gathering.' Alice White - 'Salamanders'. Rebecca Vespertine - 'The Room of Lost Colours' Nel Mama Boho bravely freestyles her poem right there in the studio inspired by the listener prompt 'Irving Mosquito'. Sean apologises profusely right here for forgetting to mention him by name while recording, but THANK YOU CRAIG KAMBER! You are a MTAW Muse of the Week! 4. Craig Kamber - Irving Mosquito WORLD OF WHELAN Look out for Nel's upcoming show for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival called Invincible Prince Versus Michael at Circus Oz, directed by Candy Bowers. Sean is hosting a tribute to Nirvana's Unplugged Album at the Workers Club on Sunday 16th December. Sean will also read a poem at this event detailing his real life encounter with Nirvana at Kings Cross train station in Sydney in 1992. Tickets and details available right here.

7:01 am introduction to program, acknowledgement of country7:03 am discussion of headline news stories - Dutton and au-pair, new PMs first lie "we are on your side", Chelsea manning threatened with being denied a visa to enter Australia 7:16 am recording of Decolonising stories a free event that was held on August 26th at the Arts Centre  featuring Samah Sabawi who is an award-winning playwright, author and poet. Her critically acclaimed play Tales of a City by the Sea was selected for the 2016 Victorian Certificate of Education Drama Playlist, won two Drama Victoria awards for best new Australian publication and best performance for VCE and was nominated for Best Independent Production at the Green Room Awards. 7:33 am news from Green Left Weekly corporate tax cuts defeated for now  7:37 am some more headline news such as the hypocrisy of Theresa May , the dark legacy of John McCain  and student anger over university speaker who thinks rape crisis is fake 7:50 am a discussion about Daniel Andrews new Railway Loop proposal and it's limitations.  8:00 am activist calendar8:10 am second recording from Decolonising stories featuring Candy Bowers who is a speaker, writer, actor, theatre maker and filmmaker. The Artistic Director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of contemporary performance which earned her the 2018 Geoffrey Milne- Green Room Association Award for outstanding contribution to Independent Theatre.    8:24 am news article from Green Left Weekly a protest organised by Transport Rider workers  8:27 am closing of program

Candy Bowers is a South African woman born on Wurundjeri Country and is presenting a workshop on The Art of Decolonisation as part of the Melbourne Fringe. Candy presents the workshop along with the cast […] http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_urbandreaming/p/joy.org.au/urbandreaming/wp-content/uploads/sites/336/2018/08/2018-08-21-UrbanDreaming-CandyBowers.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:53 — 38.4MB) The post Candy Bowers and The Art of Decolonisation appeared first on Urban Dreaming.

Candy Bowers writes a love letter to her black lesbian hero, Audre Lorde. Candy is an award-winning writer, actor, social activist, comedian and producer. The co-artistic director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of hip hop theatre that delves into the heart of radical feminist dreaming. Born of multi-racial South African parents and raised in the Western Suburbs of Sydney, Candy studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Since then she has gone on perform across the country and the world, and has appeared on the small screen in Newton’s Law(ABC/ Netflix), Tonightly with Tom Ballard (ABC) and The Katering Show (ABC/Netflix.) Her awards and accolades include the British Council of the Arts Realise Your Dream Award, Australia Council of the Arts Cultural Leadership Fellowship, Philip Parsons Young Playwright Award Short List, Melbourne Fringe Best Performance and Director’s Choice Award, Adelaide Fringe Youth Education Award and The Geoffrey Milne Memorial Award for her ongoing work championing diversity and inclusivity in the arts. Candy Bowers is featured in the Queerstories book which can be ordered on Booktopia. Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates, visit www.maevemarsden.com, and follow Queerstories on Facebook. The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia. To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram.   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Candy Bowers and Busty Beatz are showbusiness sisters and collaborators who tell it as they see it. Fearless and unapologetic, they've long been vocal about the whiteness of arts institutions, and worked actively to critique representation from within and without. They talk to It's Not A Race about the highs and lows of decolonising creative spaces. Contact us at notarace@abc.net.au or tweet using #NotARace.

Tuesday 12 November 2017with Ayaan, Ruby, George, and Lauren 7:00am Acknowledgement of Country 7:10 am George speaks with freelance writer Reena Gupta about denial of racism and lack of empathy in Australia.  7:30am Ayaan speaks with actor, comedian and social activist, Candy Bowers on being a woman of colour in misogynistic and racist spaces like the art world.  7:55am Lauren speaks with Gabby Skelsey, health education and support worker from RhED about violence against sex workers.   8:15am Ayaan and Lauren interview Debbie Kilroy, CEO of Sisters Inside on women in prison and why the prison system perpetuates, rather than reduces violence.  

"Hollywood is the great value-dictator of our time." - Amos Gebhardt The third episode of our season on belonging and exclusion is here, and this month we are conversing across many disciplines, and setting a record with the number of voices featured. Our guests are writer and performer Candy Bowers, artist and filmmaker Amos Gebhardt, and playwright and theatre-maker Chi Vu, three artists who have challenged the dominant narratives of gender, culture, and race both in their work, and as prominent public speakers. In this episode, recorded at FCAC and moderated by RMIT Deputy Dean of Media Lisa French, our guests speak about the female gaze on stage and screen, and what to do with Jill Soloway when being woman-identifying is only one of the parts of your identity. "So I worked on a play called Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee last year at MTC. And I thought what was extraordinary with that play is that - I really don't think Melbourne is at the same level regarding consciousness and dialogue in regards to whiteness and privilege - more than half of the audience saw one play, and all the intersectional feminists saw a different play. Literally, people laughed at different jokes. I read the play and I thought it was so funny straight away, and most of the guys I was working with, including the director, didn't think it was funny, didn't understand it. And I thought: 'This is a really clear case study in the fact that I've lived a life reading between the lines, and they've lived a life on the line. The line has been for them'." - Candy Bowers This panel ‘Female Gaze on Film and Stage’ was originally recorded as part of the program for WOW Melbourne at FCAC, and was presented in partnership with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. It’s the very end of summer in Melbourne, it's a lovely Thursday afternoon, everyone is just settling in for an afternoon of discussions. It's a beautiful conversation: it is a rare occasion to hear some distinguished voices of the Australian independent arts speak about the intersectional experience in a space that is safe and expansive, outside of the carnival of outrage and provocation that so often greets those who speak about diversity. Discussed in this episode: decolonising ourselves, Jill Soloway, inclusivity and being included, very small paths, being Best Female Performer for playing a straight man, what is cultural safety?, how bilinguals are not like two monolinguals in the same body, Back to Back Theatre, creating little worlds, what's wrong with make-up artists in Australia?, and the female gaze. "As an artist, creating a culture of safety, however you define it, is the only way you can make work over a long term." - Chi Vu Bibliography: Jill Soloway on The Female Gaze, Master Class, TIFF 2016 Ben Neutze: Candy Bowers on Australian Theatre's White Patriarchy: Burn it Down, The Daily Review, Oct 2016 Ben Neutze: Review: Lilith the Jungle Girl, The Daily Review, Sep 2016 Stephanie Lai: Review: Coloured Aliens by Chi Vu, Peril, Apr 2017 Dylan Rainforth: Amos Gebhardt's Nude Portraiture Celebrates Difference, The Age, Feb 2016 You can subscribe to Audiostage on iTunes or any number of Android platforms, friend us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter. This season of Audiostage was created in partnership with Footscray Community Arts Centre as part of WOW – Women of the World Festival Melbourne, delivered in association with Southbank Centre London.

In this episode, writer, theatre maker and hip hop artist Candy Bowers joins us to discuss losing love for The Cosby Show, representation in Australian comedy and TV, and how to call people out (even when they cry). Candy Bowers is an international award-winning playwright, actor and comedian. A NIDA graduate, Candy has worked across the main-stages at Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company and Circus Oz. As the Co-Artistic Director of Black Honey Company, Candy makes work that delves into the heart of radical black feminist dreaming and cuts and tickles in equal measure. This year you can catch her on the small screen in Newton’s Law and The Ex PM.

Narrate rounded out the final leg of MRelay 2016/17. Storytelling is a tool for knowledge generation and cultural transmission. The telling of one’s personal journey can be used to share cultural history and create social cohesion. This session provided a speaker’s corner for the city, a platform for ideas to be heard and stories to be told. It was opportunity to hear from ethnically and culturally diverse voices, ages and genders. Here we investigated digital storytelling, personal and architectural narratives. Our questions were: How can new technologies encode narrative, strengthen identity and build community? With the rise of artificial intelligence, we explore what it means to be human. Narrate was hosted by Karen McCartney, writer and editor extraordinaire. Speakers included Aric Chen, curator of art and design at M+; Sam Cooney, publisher of The Lifted Brow; Jill Garner, Victorian Government Architect; Candy Bowers, actress, social activist; Adele Varcoe, producer and fashion designer; Kenny Pittock, Melbourne-based visual artist; and Lucy Adams, manager of homeless law at Justice Connect.

Presented as part of Hey Girl, this panel discussion, hosted by comedian Judith Lucy, will look at girls on screen in a special evening dedicated to dissecting some of the funniest and fetchest pop-culture favourites. Featuring Mel Campbell, Jessica Knight, Billie Tumarkin and Candy Bowers this conversation is suited to girls, anyone who was once a girl and anybody who knows a girl. It’s hard to know whether to cheer or groan at the success of Lena Dunham’s hit TV show Girls. On one hand, it’s encouraging to see real, imperfect female bodies on screen. On the other hand, it’s depressing that such images are still revolutionary. ‘There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine, or bodies like their own bodies,’ Dunham has said. Girls is just one show that has inspired some fiery debates about female representation and diversity in popular culture. Our panel – comprising some of the smartest young women we know – will also respond to clips from Broad City, Freaks & Geeks, The Katering Show, Puberty Blues and, of course, Mean Girls. Can we see ourselves in these characters? Who is left out in representations of girls on screen? What power do these representations hold over our imaginations? And could there ever be a show about girls as gross as The Inbetweeners?

This weeks guests include Patricia Cornelius & Candy Bowers, choreographer Lucy Guerin, andFringe artists Kyle Davey & Stephanie Osztreicher.

Super exciting show this week, as Richard chats to Australian theatre icon Pamela Rabe about bringing her Helpmann Award-winning turn as Amanda Wingfield to The Malthouse. Chunky Move choreographer Anouk van Dijk & executive director Vanessa Pigrum talk about their upcoming piece Lucid, and director Sarah Giles and actors Candy Bowers & Hamish Michael discuss Melbourne Theatre Companys new satire Straight White Men.