Podcasts about footscray community arts centre

Episode 2: ASSERTING COMPLEXITY. Vivian Nguyen & Jamie Tram Asian Australian playwright and actor Vivian Nguyen brings a wealth of stage experience. Her debut 'Thin Threads' was shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights Award and 'Bugged' was published in ATYP's National Studio. Her plays 'Politics Aside' and 'a moment to love' debuted to acclaim at Melbourne Fringe, and was supported by Theatre Works and City of Melbourne . She was shortlisted for the Red Stitch INK Writing Program, and was a recipient of The Wheeler's Centre Hot Desk Fellowship for 2023. She's been commissioned by Malthouse Theatre and Footscray Community Arts Centre. Her most recent work is 'The Astonishing Comet Boombox' which was presented in collaboration with City of Maribyrnong for Melbourne Fringe Festival. . Find her on instagram @vivngyn Jamie Tram is a culture writer and screenwriter. They are the Small Screens Editor at The Big Issue, and their work can be found in Spectrum at The Age, Senses of Cinema, Filmink, and elsewhere. They've appeared on ABC's Art Works and Triple R's Primal Screen to gush about their favourite Hong Kong actors (amongst other less important topics). In 2022, they co-wrote the animated short Graveyard Shift, which premiered at MQFF Opening Night. They are an alumni of MIFF's Critics Campus and the VCA, where they've since returned to tutor screenwriting. They are also a 2023 Hot Desk Fellow. Find them on instagram @jamiecatchesthetram, and twitter @sameytram Credits: Producer: Jess Zanoni (@jesszanoni) Co-Producer & Audio Engineer: Sam Pannifex (@otalgiaaudio) Intro Music: Georgia Farry @bby__g__) Artwork: Tinieka Page (@tinieka) With thanks to Henry Farnan, EWF's Marketing & Publicity Coordinator. With support from the Queen Victoria Women's Centre (@qvwc_melbourne), Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne. Proud to showcase the works of creatives of @melcityoflit.

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Jiselle Hanna from Australia Asia Worker Links joined us to talk about the 10-year anniversary commemorations of the devastating collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, which claimed the lives of over 1,000 people - largely garment factory workers - and injured several thousand more. We'll speak about commemorative events happening this week in Melbourne including tomorrow's 'Lives Not Numbers' photo exhibition launch, and the importance and potential of international worker solidarity. You can catch Jiselle on AAWL's 3CR program Asia Pacific Currents every Saturday morning from 9-9:30AM. Get involved with AAWL's campaigning and find out more about upcoming events by heading to their Facebook page.// We played an interview between Inez and actor, writer, model, producer and all around sweetheart Matisse Laida talking about Matisse and Nisha Hunter's We Eatin' Good, a collaborative food platform dedicated to amplifying Queer, Black, Indigenous, PoC. They spoke about how queerness, culture, and food intersect and what redefining 'good' food looks like. Catch the World Premiere of We Eatin' Good film on Sat 6th of May at Footscray Community Arts Centre from 3pm - 6pm as part of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. You can also rent the film online at ACMI.// Dr Jessica Hambly, Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law, and Co-Director of the Law Reform and Social Justice program, joined Phuong earlier this week on 3CR's Tuesday Breakfast show to talk to us about Australia's cruel refugee policies and how they have impacted policies in other countries. Jess is a socio-legal scholar with interests in access to justice for people seeking asylum, asylum law and procedure, refugee rights, gender and migration, legal professions and radical lawyering, inclusion and participation in 'legal spaces', and court and tribunal (including online) architectures. Jess has worked with a number of grassroots migrant and refugee rights organisations including Bristol Refugee Rights, Lesvos Legal Centre, and Samos Legal Centre.//Kerry Klimm spoke with us about the everyday, lived impacts on First Nations people of mainstream conversations about a First Nations Voice to Parliament and push for Constitutional Recognition, an issue that Kerry notes has frequently been left out of mainstream media's Indigenous Affairs coverage. Kerry is a Gugu Yalanji and Koko Lamalama woman from far North Queensland and now lives in Meeanjin, lands of the Turrbal and Yuggera peoples. She runs creative communications consultancy Flashblak and has over 25 years in mainstream and First Nations' media.//

From the flagship youth arts organisation Western Edge comes Distortion - a genre-ending and time trippy production that will be unlike anything you have seen before. Distortion will be playing at Wyndam Cultural Centre, Footscray Community Arts Centre and the Bowery Theatre in St Albans from the 3rd to the 17th of September.  We chatted with lead artist Clarisse Bonello and co-artistic director John Marc Desengano all about Western Edge and the upcoming Distortion.  For more info and to book tickets click here. Be sure to follow @artsmittensyn on Instagram, and tune in to SYN 90.7FM every Wednesday at 4pm-6pm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Marco Cher-Gibard is half-Chinese (but it's more complicated than that) and lives in Melbourne on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples. We chat about: - Learning and relearning Chinese culture - From the circus to the slums, the Merchant Navy to Batik Bazaar - His mum was a hippy escaping Footscray - Not fitting in with your family - Marco's artist residency in Beijing - When your reference point for a place (Singapore) doesn't exist anymore - Anything that happens in public in China you can watch - Portraiture through sound - Marco Polo - The privilege of travelling on a western passport, being male but not white - Taxi drivers are the only people who are welcome to ask “where are you from?” - All of a sudden becoming attractive - Not leaning on the POC box - Art about identity is trendy and this could change Mixed media: ‘Spiderboys' by Ming Cher, Sax People by Marco Cher-Gibard Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson Guest: Marco Cher-Gibard Music by: Green Twins Edited by: Kate Robinson Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts Centre, Maribyrnong City Council Community Grants Program, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations. If you have any questions or feedback you can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com

Kiyo Egashira is American and also Japanese/Irish. He lives in the UK. We chat about: - Limited connections to the ‘homeland' - ‘Acting' white - Before anything being American - A moment of silence for Pearl Harbour - Keeping a lid on racial trauma - Internment camps in the USA - The impact of 911 - Hawaii: the racial melting pot - Non-white workplaces - Hapa (mixed) people being more normal - White privilege everywhere (except Hawaii?) - Getting the Japanese entry form - White first-names and Japanese middle-names - Blossom and Fast Eddy - The pressure of naming your baby Mixed media: The Sign of the Chrysanthemum by Katherine Paterson Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson Guest: Kiyo Egashira Music by: Green Twins Edited by: Kate Robinson Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts Centre, Maribyrnong City Council Community Grants Program, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations. If you have any questions or feedback you can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com

Monique Nair is Indian/Italian/Polish and lives in Melbourne on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. We chat about: - Coming from Bombay to Bahrain and Mildura to Melbourne - Growing up with Bollywood - The Family Law, Ginny and Georgia and Never Have I Ever - Tokenism v representation - Why saying you're a POC out loud is hard - Not being seen as Indian - Her mum's Italian mindset - Reclaiming your own name - The many Kate Robinsons - Having a sibling who is more white passing than you - The foreigner line in India - Writing stories based in culture - Blame and loss in language learning Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson Guest: Monique Nair Music by: Green Twins Edited by: Kate Robinson Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts Centre, Maribyrnong City Council Community Grants Program, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations. If you have any questions or feedback you can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to Being Biracial, a new show about navigating the world as a mixed race person. Being Biracial is filled with stories told by people of many different mixes about the significance of our names, complicated family histories and childhoods in different languages. Enjoy this sneak peek of what's to come! Coming September 2021. Hosted by Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson. Music by the Green Twins. Being Biracial was developed with the support of Footscray Community Arts Centre, through the use of their podcast studio on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples.

This week we chat to Urvi Majumdar! Urvi is known as one of the most solid acts around on the Melbourne stand up circuit over the last couple of years. Urvi talks to us about how she got started, balancing comedy with working and her career, and the new work she's doing because of stand up like writing for The Project, acting in Metrosexual, and as a producer for Footscray Community Arts Centre. Find Urvi Majumdar here:https://www.facebook.com/urvimajumdar/https://www.instagram.com/urvi_majumdar~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Cover Image by Ben Mitchell https://www.instagram.com/bennydevito/Connect with us...online! 
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On this week’s episode Richard explores the impact of COVID-19 on the arts sector.Richard talks to Daniel Santangeli, Artistic Director & Co-CEO of Footscray Community Arts Centre which is a part of the Arts West Alliance. Footscray Community Arts Centre have shut their doors out of respect for the members of their community who are most at risk during this crisis, especially those with a disability and Indigenous Australians. However, they are keeping the space open just for artists with a disability. They are hoping to provide a place where there’s a reduced risk of infection for these practitioners to work. Footscray Community Arts Centre are also advocating for the government to provide an arts stimulus package, so the arts sector can do what it does best, “which is provide community connection through creativity”.Next Richard talks to Esther Anatolitis from the National Association for the Visual Arts. Her organisation is keeping track of the disruption to the arts industry and is also lobbying the government for a stimulus package. She hopes that the Australian government will rediscover its role through its handling of the crisis.Finally Richard talks with Amelia Wallen who is the Director of West Space. West Space have just moved to a new location in Collingwood. They were preparing to put on their first exhibition in their new gallery when they had to postpone due to the pandemic. They are currently working on ways to make the work accessible to the public through this crisis. Wallen says that the exhibition is timely in that it’s “looking at the different conditions under which artists produce work and this is a condition unlike no other.”

How can cultural organisations make sure their community engagement is meaningful and impactful? In this episode, we talk with Jade Lillie and Lia Pa’apa’a about best practice when it comes to community relationships, in all forms.They cover topics such as culturally and creatively safe spaces, starting a project the way that we want to finish it and the importance of being able to share failure and learn from it.We cover:Why community-engaged practice is so powerfulHow to relinquish curatorial power and create culturally and creatively safe spacesThe reason you need to start a project the way you intend to finish itHow to leave a legacy in the context of finite project fundingThe importance of sharing failures and learning from our mistakesWhy it’s an issue when CACD is seen as a separate artform rather than a way to work all the timeWhy we need to watch out for ‘deficit model’ thinking and adopt a strength-based approach insteadHow practitioners can think about self-awareness and take responsibility to learn about a community before starting work.Jade Lillie been working as an executive and leader in arts, culture, health, community and international development, education and training for the past 15 years. She is a specialist in strategy, community and stakeholder engagement, facilitation, collaboration and partnerships, people and culture.After 5 years as Director and CEO with Footscray Community Arts Centre, she was awarded the prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship for 2018 - 2019. As the Director, Public Affairs with cohealth, she leads research, policy, advocacy, strategic and government relations, marketing, communications and sponsorship.Read about Jade’s new book project, The Relationship is The Project at www.therelationshipistheproject.comLia Pa’apa’a is a Samoan/Native American woman who works across Australia as artist and community arts worker. Pa’a’a’a started out as a teacher, trained in Indigenous Education. She has spent the last five years working on Indigenous and Pacific festivals in urban, regional and remote Australia. Lia lives in Cairns where she works with the local community to produce contemporary dance shows and is developing her own platform Plant Based Native to investigate the intersections of food/art/community and wellbeing.For more details, including the full transcript of the conversation, you can head to the episode webpage: https://www.thepatternmakers.com.au/podcast-episodes/episode2Connect with Tandi Palmer Williams & Patternmakers on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tandiwilliams/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepatternmakers/Twitter: https://twitter.com/tandi_willFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepatternmakers.com.au/To stay in the loop with the latest research, big ideas and useful tools, you can sign up to get Patternmakers' free, monthly Culture Insight & Innovation Update direct to your inbox each month: https://thepatternmakers.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=7f009b1b1f874eddcffa4d79c&id=1408ed145f

Monday 8th July 2019  Jenny Smith - Jenny Smith, CEO of  Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) on ending homelessness in Victoria and highlighting the gross representation of indigenous people experiencing homelessness.  Richard Tanter - Professor Richard Tanter from the Nautilus Institute for Secuirty and Sustainabilit,talks about the Australia-US alliance, the late Malcolm Fraser's book Dangerous Allies and the presence of a Chinese AGI vessel in international waters closeby.  Denis Muller - Dr Denis Muller from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at University of Melbourne on why he believes letting the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligience and Security (PJCIS) conduct an inquiry on press freedom is "letting the fox guard the henhouse"  Liam O'brien - Liam O'Brien from the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) talks about the arrest of chairman, Kim Myung-hwan, of the KCTU (Korean Confederation of Trade Unions) on June 21 following workers pay protests in South Korea.  Po Po Mo Co - Kimberly Twiner from the comedy theatre group Po Po Mo Co talk about their performance Once Upon a Drag Storytime at Footscray Community Arts Centre on July 13th.  MUSIC:No Fixed Address - We have survivedBriggs - HereMojo Ju Ju - Native TongueRuby Hunter - Ngarrindjeri Woman

7:15 Once upon a Drag Story Time. Kimberly Twiner, from POPOMOCO tells us about their show Once upona Drag Story Time being performed at Footscray Community Arts Centre on July 13 th at 2:00pmhttp://footscrayarts.com/event/once-upon-a-drag-storytime/7:30 Pine Gap’s role in Australian Defence Policy 2019. Professor Richard Tanter, Senior Research Associate with the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability updates us about the role of Pine Gap in US/Australian defence policy.7:45 Christopher Pyne’s appointment to EY breaches Ministerial Standards. Senator Rex Patrick on former defence minister Christopher Pyne’s appointment as defence consultant to Ernst and Young (EY) within twomonth of leaving the Federal Defence portfolio.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-27/christopher-pyne-called-out-for-taking-defence-job/112505268:00 Temporary reprieve for the Great Australian Bight Peter Owen, the SA Director of the Wilderness Society joins us on the phone from Adelaide to discuss the federal regulator NOPSEMA’s decision to request more information from Equinor on its environmental plan for drilling in the Great Australian Bight.https://indaily.com.au/news/2019/06/28/bight-oil-drilling-plan-delayed/8:15  Fergus Kinnaird from Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) speaks to us about Coles and Woolies membership of the Business Council of Australia (BCA) and te ACF’s current.https://www.acf.org.au/email_supermarketshttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-acf-taking-bca-mara-bunMusic Song                       Artist Circles                    Kutcha EdwardsDieu A Nos Côtés   Hart-Rouge

Monday 6th May 2019 Aunty Ruth and Uncle Dick Carney talk about their play A little Piece of Heaven showing from May 8th to 11th at Footscray Community Arts Centre   Alice interviews Jojo Zaho, a faboriginal drag queen competing in Miss First Nation competition from May 8th to May 11th.  Refugee Council's I Choose Humane Campaign  Kristen Lyons on traditional owners resistance to Adani mine Anh Mai, School council president for Preston High The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of the program featured the following music tracks: (Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions) Music: Anouar Brahem - Al Birwa  Anouar Brahem - The Astounding Eyes of Rita  Pirra - All for wa  Archie Roach - Love is Everything  Nakhane - Interloper Whitney Houston - I Have Nothing 

This week we listen to a panel discussion hosted by Allies Decolonising.The event, Sovereignty, Treaty and Constitutional Recognition brought together Aboriginal community members to discuss the treaty process and Aboriginal sovereignty. PanelistsLidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri country in Melbourne’s north. She is a community worker, mother and grandmother. Lidia has spent decades fighting for Aboriginal rights and the environment, including fighting to successfully save a million-year-old gorge in Nowa Nowa, East Gippsland and becoming the first Aboriginal woman to serve in the Victorian Parliament.Crystal McKinnon is a Yamatji woman who lives and works on Kulin country. She has worked at many universities and Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, and she is currently working at RMIT as a Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow. In one of her projects at RMIT, Crystal is working with a team on an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Project named: Indigenous Leaders: Lawful Relations from Encounter to Treaty. Her work has looked at concepts of Indigenous sovereignty, Indigenous social movements and protest, and Indigenous resistance through the use of the creative arts, including music and literature.Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba & Gunditjmara woman living on Kulin Country. She’s worked in Koorie community arts as an artist & curator & in education at Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Centre at Vic Uni & the Indigenous Arts and Cultural Program at Footscray Community Arts Centre. Her work focuses on self-determination & sovereignty within the arts & is a member of the Blak Brow Collective who edited Blak Brow for the Lifted Brow. Her PhD research focuses on Indigenous women’s disruptions & resistance through art. Her work is based on sovereignty, matriarchy & First Nations ways.Event ModeratorClare Land is a historian at Moondani Balluk at Vic Uni, and author of the book Decolonizing Solidarity which outlines how people like her might emerge towards being less racist, and how she can better use privileges she has access to in support of Aboriginal struggles. Her knowledge and politics have been shaped in particular by Gary Foley, Dr Uncle Wayne Atkinson, and by the Thorpe family. 

Today on the show with Dean, Eiddwen, Judith, and William [Segment times in brackets]|| [6:02] Alternative News: Your hosts discuss the real news stories of the day and how mainstream sources choose to cover them (if they cover them at all) || [18:16] ArtLife Extravaganza! Judith speaks to Peter Tolhurst, Harry Thirston and Amy Mcmurtrie about the extravaganza on at Footscray Community Arts Centre. Opening November 15th || [29:19] Religious Freedom/The Postal Survey: James from In Ya Face (Fridays 4pm) speaks to longtime LGBTQ+ activist Rodney Croome about the leaked recommendations of Phillip Ruddock's "Religious Freedom" report and they take time to reflect on the Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey, one year on || [51:17] One Year of Queer Weddings: Cultural historian from LaTrobe Uni Dr Tim Jones comes in the studio to look at the unexpected consequences of the Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey || [1:04:01] Defending Public Housing: Marcelline D'Menzies from Public Housing Defense Network checks in to tell us about a rally taking place Friday the 9th of November, 6pm at the State Library of Victoria || [1:09:51] Pride? Bridget from Pride in Protest comes on the show to tell us about upcoming campaigns, reminding us that the detention of refugees is a queer issue and that Mardi Gras still has a place in fighting injustice

Tuesday Breakfast October 23 7.00 am  Acknowledgement of Country7.05 am  News headlines  7.10 am  We speak to Janine Saligari from the Anna Stewart Memorial Project about today's Change the Rules Rally.  We discuss the main issues for workers concerning stagnating wages, rising living expenses, family violence leave   7.30 am We hear from Dr Nicole Shackleton and Dr Laua Griffin of Latrobe University's Law School about gendered hate speech in Australian law - namely, why it's not yet recognized or punished, and what this gap in the law means for our community. 7.45 am  We speak to leader of the Reason Party, MP Fiona Patten about Morrison's national apology to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, acknowledging the decades of work which have led to this moment as well as what the next steps are to achieve justice for survivors.   8.10 am Kerri -Lee Harding is a  producer and presenter of 3CR's Blak Noise and has been involved in a number of print and media projects. Kerri Lee is hosting Black Screen which is part of the Film Real Program at Footscray Community Arts Centre. Black Screen is showing on the 23rd of October 2018. 8.30 am EndSongssong:  Surface  artist: Etta Bond  

Iris chats to Louise Malcolm from Tilde: trans and gender diverse film festival, Nov 8th-11th @ Footscray Community Arts Centre, about this year's program and more.Iris later speaks to some news items: #BlockTheBill campaign by RISE refugee, ban on amyl nitrate (Guardian article by Joshua Badge), opt out of my health, Kerryn Phelps win at the bi-election, Sara Ahmed on TERFS, change the rules rally, cops not belonging to queer spaces and the 38 Nations rally hosted by Lidia Thorpe.Also mentionedNarrm Imagining Abolition-Fundraiser

Marisa interviewed Sam Lee, the solicitor, heading up the Police  Accountability Practice at Redfern Legal Centre. Maris spoke to Sam about  a Call to End Predictive Policing Targeting Children as Young as Ten. Sam talked about the fact thatRedfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling for an end to a New South Wales policing practice known as the Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP), which is  a "hidden" blacklist used by police to target children as young as ten.Marisa then interviewed Meg Aboriginal activist from the group, No Gatton Women's Prison is a campaign based in Meanjin working towards stopping the Queensland Government from expanding the prison industry and allowing Serco to run its first women's prison in the world. Meg spoke about this, and also about working in solidarity with women in prison. Finally, Marisa interviewed Lucy Honan from the Refugee Action Collective about  A Public Meeting: coming up, entitled: Don't Deport Huyen!This meeting is  Hosted by Refugee Action Collective in Victoria. Lucy spoke at length about Huwen, who is from Vietnam, and the massive problems she is facing in Mita detention centre trying to loo after her baby daughter ina  cruel inhumane setting. The meeting is on             Saturday, September 22 at 2 PM - 5 PM            Footscray Community Arts Centre    45 Moreland St, Footscray, Victoria, Australia 3011

Wednesday 29th of August 2018On the show: Leyla and Will7:00am - Acknowledgement of Country7:05am - Alternative News; Government corruption, Duttons' penchant for European au pairs and the Guardians' 'Deaths Inside' database.7:13​am - Deconolising Stories (Part One); Paola Balla is an artist, curator, academic, and cultural producer– having developed Footscray Community Arts Centre’s first Indigenous Arts and Cultural program, and as a Senior Curator in First Peoples exhibition, Melbourne Museum. A Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara woman she is based at Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Centre, Victoria University as a lecturer and PhD candidate focussed on Aboriginal women's art and practices of resistance.7:​35am - Discussions with Brigid from ANTaR Victoria (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation) on grassroots justice campaigning and their guide to the policies that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the 2018 Victorian election.7.45am - Kate Tempest with Europe is Lost(link is external)7.49am - Jenny Weber, Campaign Manager from The Bob Brown Foundation expresses despair at the appointment of MP Melissa Price as the Morrison Government's Minister for the Environment. She also discusses upcoming direct action in Tarkine Forest on September 15th. For more infromation see their website, here.8:01am - Deconolising Stories (Part Two); Astrid Mbani is a Writer, Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Performer, Lover of People, Authentic Relationship Builder, Edifier, Equipper and Lifelong student, who's excited to see what other roles God develops in her. Born in South Africa her mother says she came in with a bang, and she wants to exit with one; having made her ancestors and her future generations proud.8.12am - Artist Tim Humphrey joins us in studio to talk about Arts House Melbourne's Refuge project. We contemplate existential risks, grief, survival and who gets the vaccine? Refuge is open from Wednesday 29th of August until Saturday the 1st of September; for a full run down of their events see their website.

Hannah Morphy-Walsh talks about the 'From Fifth to First - More than Action' forum coming up at Footscray Community Arts Centre.You can find more information about the forum and how to attend here: http://footscrayarts.com/event/from-fifth-to-first-more-than-access/"From Fifth to First, a disability-led forum covering the lives and cultures of people with disabilities, is more about action than access. Through a series of discussions, panels and presentations, participants will have the opportunity to drive conversation and develop actionable outcomes."WHEN:Day One: Conversation and Working GroupsFriday 10 August, 10am – 4pm(Exclusive for self-identified people with disabilities, and their carers and support workers)Day Two: Presentations and Panel DiscussionsSaturday 11 August, 1pm – 4pm(Open to the general public)

Enza Gandolfo joins Backstory with Melissa Cranenburgh this week to talk about her second novel The Bridge. Drawing on the true events of Australia's worst industrial accident (the collapse of The West Gate Bridge), a tragedy that still scars the city of Melbourne. The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel that examines class, guilt, and moral culpability. Yet it shows that even the most harrowing of situations can give way to forgiveness and redemption. Ultimately, it is a testament to survival and the resilience of the human spirit.And we catch up with Khalid Warsame from West Writers Forum. The Forum is an annual event that aims to encourage diverse and critically engaged conversations between writers/storytellers, readers and industry members. The forum includes panels, workshops, performances, installations and story walks and is held from the 27 - 29 July at Footscray Community Arts Centre.

We talk with Nikki Spunde on transphobia at London pride (see open letter), her comedy (The Lazy Show, Asexual Healing), asexuality, acephobia and more. We then are joined by Miranda Sparks who talks about her trans superhero comic Glimmer Girl, mental health with the TRANSmission program, and The Gender Agenda on Joy FM.Also mentioned at the start: you can support / follow the Djap Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy. Earth Matters produced a podcast, 'No Trees, No Treaty'.Events plugged:Queering the pitchLGBTIQ+ Women's health conference 2018Understanding Ableism and Access at Footscray Community Arts Centre

Iris speaks to Bridget from Sound School, a project that is working against the barriers marginalised people face in electronic music. Iris is then in conversation with comic creator Frank Candiloro. LinksQueering the Air radiothon, donate to keep us on air!Sound School's upcoming workshop series at Footscray Community Arts Centre.Frank Candiloro's gumroad, patreon, Instagram and Facebook. Queer Lady Magician 'Magic Happens' fundraiser by Mama Alto and Mx Munro for Creatrix Tiara. Incedium Radical Library Infoshop launch. 

Wednesday Breakfast May 23, 20187:00am     Acknowledgement of Country7:05am     Hannah Morphy-Walsh, one of the co-curators of the exhibition Blak to the Future, speaks with us about the Wominjeka Festival, on at Footscray Community Arts Centre this weekend7:15am     Maylene Slater-Burns from SNAICC on the work of her organisation and Reconciliation on the Rooftop, at Fitzroy Library, Monday, May 28th.7:30am     Dr James Whelan researcher with Environmental Justice Australia on the risks to health of coal fired power stations and the need for improvements or closure of existing stations.7:45am     A Community Forum on the report of the Inquiry into Drug Law Reform is on next Wednesday, @ 4pm May 30th. Greg Denham CEO of Yarra Drug and Health Forum stresses the need for public discussion of the report.8:00am     Father Rod Bower (Gosford Anglican Church) describes the invasion of the Gosford Anglican Church community's Saturday night evening mass service by Nationalists from Melbourne, and the need for government leadership on this issue.8:15am     Prime Minister Turnbull received the report of the Review of Religious Freedom last week but the contents are yet to have been made public. Lee Carnie from the Human Rights Law Centre discusses the background and their submission to the Review.

Are the heroines of modern anime confronting the stereotyped female characters that preceded them? Or are they still designed merely to service the fantastical and unrealistic desires of male fans? In this traditionally male-dominated genre, the growing trend of empowered female protagonists is a welcome development. Still, there’s no shortage of anime productions that feature excessive ‘fan-service’ – highly objectified representations of women. For every baddass heroine like Princess Mononoke’s San, there are the subjugated female characters in Keijo, designed purely for the male gaze. Our panel of academics, critics and cultural commentators unraveled anime’s approach to women and tested whether it could become a new ground for feminism. About The Panel Jessica McCallum Jessica McCallum currently works with Madman Entertainment, a Melbourne founded and leading Australian independent entertainment company. As the Head of Social Media and Anime Marketing, Jess is responsible for social media strategies and marketing initiatives. She has played an instrumental part in propelling the growth of Madman's anime audience and community by developing effective and engaging campaigns for key product categories and releases. Working alongside peers who are pushing the organisation in exciting new directions, both in theatrical (Your Name, A Silent Voice), national anime festivals and direct-to-consumer digital streaming via AnimeLab, Jess is extremely passionate about bringing the latest and greatest anime content to Aussie and NZ fans. Phillip Brophy Philip Brophy curated the first major retrospective of manga artist Osamu Tezuka for the National Gallery of Victoria in 2006. The exhibition toured to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco the following year. In 2005, he was commissioned to write “100 Anime” for the British Film Institute in London. In previous years he has curated film retrospective programmes for the Melbourne International Film Festival on Tezuka (1995) and Studio Ghibli (1997). He interviewed Hayao Miyazaki in Tokyo for the exhibition he curated on Japanese and American animation for the Museum of Contemporary Art, “Kaboom!” (1993). He has been published extensively in international journals on anime and manga. Nikki Lam Nikki Lam is a visual artist, curator and programmer based in Melbourne. Working primarily with the moving image, she is passionate about the cross-sections of screen cultures, media arts and representations. Born in Hong Kong, she is interested in exploring the translations of post-colonial identities and narratives in the hybrid world, often through the studies of rituals, language, time and space. She is the former Artistic Director of Channels Video Art Festival (2014-2016) and has worked in a range of arts organisations including Footscray Community Arts Centre, Peril Magazine and Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT). She is currently ACMI X Coordinator for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Nikki grew up with anime in Hong Kong and would consider the medium as the fundamental ingredient of her formative years. Title: Kill La Kill Season One Copyright: Madman Entertainment Title: Keijo!!!!!! Season One Copyright: Crunchyroll Title: Psycho Pass Season One Copyright: Madman Entertainment Title: Attack on Titan Season One Copyright: Madman Entertainment Title: Perfume Live @ Tokyo Dome Copyright: Perfume Records

Davey Thompson discusses U=U and the campaign's video he features in.  Dancer & choreographer Jonathan Homsey chats about Mx.Red, their interactive, queer, utopian-world-beyond-the-spectrum show at the Festival of Live Art, Footscray Community Arts Centre in Melbourne.  3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation. Sovreignty was never ceded.

This week Richard is joined by Khalid Warsame, lead producer for Footscray Community Arts Centre working on Festival of Live Art projects, Sarah Goodes pops by to chat about Malthouse Theatre Companys The Children; William Yang discusses visual production held at Wyndham Cultural centre The Story Only I Can Tell, andproducer Jo Porter chats with Richard on the phone about what's going on in the Regional Centre for Culture this year.

Xanthe Beesley is a performance maker with a background in theatre and dance. Her creative practice focuses on movement, dramaturgy and the facilitation of creative ideas - often taking on a different role depending on the need of each artist, organisation or community she collaborates with. Xanthe works as a producer, facilitator and theatre maker developing collaborations with independent companies and artists across Melbourne. She has fostered significant, long-term partnerships with many independent artists and independent companies including Michelle Heaven, Petra Kalive, Paula van Beek and Kate Sulan. Recent highlights include performer/collaborator In Plan, by Michelle Heaven and Ben Cobham (Castlemaine Festival), ‘Body Move Space’ created with Zoe Scoglio (Footscray Community Arts Centre, Gertrude St Projection Festival), movement direction and dramaturgy Ricercar (Present Tense Ensemble, Theatre Works) and the Movement in Conversation language project with refugee and asylum seeker women in Dandenong. A focus of her creative work over the past decade has been on social practice and the intersection between community groups and contemporary art; developing and contributing to projects within a broad range of communities including children at risk, youth, people who experience disability and refugee communities. Her experience working with theatre companies, universities, schools, cultural institutions and festivals spans organisations such as Melbourne Fringe, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Rawcus Ensemble, Arts Access Victoria, Fusion Theatre Dandenong, Present Tense Ensemble, Victorian College of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, KITE theatre and Contact Inc. She holds a BA Drama Hons (QUT) and a Masters in Theatre-Making in from the VCA where she was awarded the Barbara Manning Scholarship for post-graduate studies in theatre. In 2018 Xanthe will take up the role of Acting Artist Director at Union House Theatre. In this episode: We chat about starting off as an artist and then moving into the role of producer and how to keep the two streams moving at the same time. How facilitation is an important factor in the creative world. We talk about how the many hats you can wear when you work as a creative. We also go through some excellent tops tips on what makes a great producer.

"When you're trying to deconstruct the dominant structures, it's not going to happen politely, is it?" - Jade Lillie Welcome to the final episode of the season on race, womanhood, and belonging - and you're in for a real treat. To close a season created in partnership with Footscray Community Arts Centre, we speak with two head ladies of FCAC about the ethos that guides FCAC's work. Departing Artistic Director Jade Lillie, and Head of Programming Lydia Fairhall, discuss white privilege, their personal history with both feminism and decolonisation, and what it really takes to create a community. "I don't know that spending my life attacking power structures is going to be as of much benefit for me, in this life, as trying to cultivate peace and forgiveness. (...) It's a hard thing to think about. I'm the first woman in her family to keep her children. I have that luxury. My mother never did. Should I just be out there? Fighting the big fight? I don't know. It's a constant tension for me." - Lydia Fairhall This conversation was not programmed for WOW Festival Melbourne, but instead was recorded separately a few months after the festival had ended, amidst the news that Jade had won this year's Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship and would be leaving FCAC at the end of 2017. We jumped at the opportunity to speak with these two leaders, crucial in the running of FCAC and in shaping the community arts space in Australia. It is an intimate conversation, a reflection on practice informed by years of conversations and collaboration, and a deep, informed closure to a season of uncompromising conversations - a season which, in this year of shocks and instability, has so often grounded us in what really matters. Jade Lillie is a recognised leader in community arts, with a practice grounded in the philosophy that arts and cultural development can bring about systemic change when there is sound engagement with social justice frameworks. After years of work in government and non-government agencies, in Australia as well as South-East Asia, Jade's practice has been recognised with numerous prestigious awards - including Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. Lydia Fairhall is the Head of Programming at Footscray Community Arts Centre. Starting out as a singer/songwriter, she has worked as a writer, academic, cultural community development worker, festival and event producer, and has worked in a variety of settings, including in family violence and suicide prevention, housing, dance, music, theatre and comedy. Colleagues, friends, changemakers and community builders - Jade and Lydia sat together in the Footscray Community Arts Centre where they have both worked for years to delve deeply into their practice, their work at FCAC, and what it means to belong. Discussed in this episode: what is home after two centuries of displacement?, Stolen Generations, the logical family, sphere of influence, doors that open are twofold, John Howard, lineage, Queensland as the canary in the Australian political coal mine, being homeless but not knowing it, glass ceilings, James Baldwin, big fat asterisks, being a queer woman, dismantling privilege, Buddhist nuns that take us under their wing, righteous anger, decolonisation and breaking bread, hope and solidarity, and how theatre is a vehicle of social justice. Jade: "You were saying this morning that this will be a time that we look back on, when we're older, as being a time of significant change." Lydia: "...but it being the beginnings of things." This was the last episode of season five of Audiostage, in which we looked at belonging through the eyes of women. It 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. Audiostage is a labour of love, created by Jana Perkovic and Bethany Atkinson, while the music for this season was created by Louise Terra.

New media has been central in modern activism, especially for people of colour who continue to be misrepresented and under represented by mainstream media. We listen to a panel discussion about the prominence of new media in asserting the voices of people of colour from Footscray Community Arts Centre's, 2015 West Writers: Our Stories Forum.We hear from founding editor of Future-Black Linda Kennedy, creative producer of Sovereign Trax Hannah Donnelly, and co-founder of Still Nomads, Samira Farah. The panel is moderated by founding editor of Ascension Magazine, Sasha Sarago. Lady Lash- Memory Chambers 

"In Timor, in the school, we have to learn about the Portuguese language, because it's the official language, in our country." "That's not your mother tongue, is it? What's your language?" "Makasai. And my husband's is Fataluku." "Can you two understand each other?" "Yes." "And what language do you speak at home?" "Tetum." In the fourth episode of the season, we speak to theatre director Leticia Cáceres, and performer and writer Lena Caminha, about language and its relationship to belonging. What happens when your mother tongue is not your country's national language? What happens when your husband's mother tongue is not your own? What happens when your teacher cannot pronounce your name? What happens when you migrate to a country whose language you resisted learning in school, because it was the language of the coloniser? "Some places in this country have been bleached white. And it's places where we don't recognise Italians and we don't recognise Hungarians, we don't recognise Argentinians, that kind of make up that whole fabric of this land, and that we're been here for quite some time, building this country together. There's only one culture that's recognised, and one name that's easy to pronounce." - Leticia Cáceres The fourth episode of this season brings you a conversation that was not programmed for WOW Festival Melbourne, but instead was recorded separately a few days before the festival opened itself up to the world. In a large warehouse space around the corner from the festival mainstage, artists from Bangladesh, Timor-Leste, India, Indonesia and Australia were busy developing new collaborative works, critical conversations and creative exchanges to be presented at the festival. This international residency program, called Women, Art & Politics, is facilitated by Footscray Community Arts Centre’s Collaborate Asia Program and Asia TOPA. All the artists had spent the last few days working together and working a part on their respective practices all exploring the intersection of the concepts within the theme Women, Art & Politics, in their local and global contexts and how they impact their practice and communities. Two of the resident artists, Lena Caminha and Leticia Cáceres, took a break from their rehearsal to record in a small room, just out of reach from the group, but just close enough so you can hear magic being created in the background. Discussed in this episode: speaking English, not speaking English, the women who came before us, learning English in Canada, learning English in Queensland, contemporary feminism, Melbourne vs Sydney (but the West is the best!), how providing a platform for women is not the same as belonging to contemporary feminism, our husbands, our children, our accents, giving our children unpronounceable names, and what it means to be understood. "I certainly identify as a feminist. I am constantly challenged by feminism. I respect many people who are resisting it, particularly women of colour, and queer folk who have found many problems with the feminist movement, and I am constantly trying to keep up with all of the ways in which we can make the thing more inclusive, and more sensitive to, or more aware of, the inherent privileges that are embedded in that movement, and have been in the movement for some time. But I can't deny the overwhelming sense of pride that I feel being associated, and standing in solidarity, with women like Lena, and feminists that have come before me, and have achieved the incredible things that they have achieved. And I am also incredibly aware of the enormity of the scale of work that needs to be done, still." - Letitia Cáceres 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,

"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.

"Familiarity with suffering makes you very strong." - Paola Balla In the second episode of our season on belonging and exclusion, created in partnership with FCAC, cross-disciplinary performance artist Carly Sheppard and PhD researcher, artist and curator extraordinaire Paola Balla speak about Australian Aboriginal women's perspective on intersectionality, motherhood, contemporary feminism, and making art. We are so privileged to be listening in. "I think a lot of people don't realise that it's embedded white supremacy that's the problem, it's not necessarily the white people. And until they understand that they carry the scars of colonisation as well... Obviously, they don't carry the scars that we carry, we're a different set. But they haven't yet owned their own set. They don't even know what they are." - Carly Sheppard This episode was recorded at Women of the World Melbourne, amongst the hustle and bustle of the festival. There were so many complex and interesting ideas and generosity of sharing going on that we wanted to catch ideas as they landed. The conversation was recorded following a discussion on motherhood, which is reflected in the conversation between our guests. As usual, we gave our guests some general questions we were curious to hear about, but otherwise we just listened. Discussed in this episode: white women explaining things on behalf of black women, sitting with conflict, giving birth at 21, postnatal depression, contemporary feminism, life as a white-presenting blackfella, not understanding the conflict you're born into, the oppression of being ladylike, what does it even mean, having it all?, how sometimes you need a safe landing, and listening to the silences of trauma. "Matriarchy has been around for tens of thousands of generations. And we had our roles in our culture: we never felt inferior to men. That was never a thing. That's a colonial construct." - Paola Balla If you wish to know more: Jana has written about Carly Sheppard's work in RealTime, which had appeared at Next Wave 2014's BLAK WAVE; here is another review, in The Conversation. If you are curious to know more about Paola Balla, have a look at the exhibition 'Sovereignty' she recently curated for ACCA, read her 2016 interview with Il Globo, or watch this ABC video. 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.

"I wasn't prepared to be anybody's mother. I was prepared to be a revolutionary." - Elaine Brown Welcome to season five of Audio Stage, a very special season for us. For this season, we collaborate with Footscray Community Arts Centre to bring you a series of conversations by black women about belonging and self. We have wanted to do this for a long time. We wanted to talk about race. We wanted to talk about Australia's racism. We wanted to talk about dispossession, about family and intergenerational trauma, about microaggressions, about what it means to be an artist when your voice, the fact of your voice, is in and of itself a danger to the status quo. We also knew that we wanted to listen, not talk. So here we are. In the next five episodes, we are listening in on some huge, important conversations about what it means to belong in a society that perhaps never wanted us in the first place. We record from a country in which so many of us are constantly reminded that we do not belong here. "For me, being black, being a migrant, my parents migrating to Australia out of need, and personally having that same experience... Not wanting to speak my language for a long time, because I just wanted to speak English, like everybody else in school. I had to re-teach myself, I'm still in that process, of the language that I've lost. I don't think it landed for me until I was much older - when you're around your people, and you have that mirroring moment, and you just realise what it is that you've subconsciously, or consciously, left behind. For survival." - Alia Gabres In our first episode, we are bringing you the conversation between Melbourne spoken word artist and cultural producer Alia Gabres, and former Black Panther Party member Elaine Brown, now an author and activist. This precious, beautiful conversation was a part of the program at Women of the World Festival Melbourne at FCAC in March 2017, and we recorded it there. Discussed in this episode: being a mother vs being a revolutionary, how words are beautiful but actions are supreme, how every woman needs her own football team, wanting to be white, the mirroring moment, you can't be a vegan in the 'hood, clicktivism, white supremacy, parenting in the Black Panther Party, not knowing how to braid your daughter's hair, and how revolutionary women don't cook. "White supremacy is not really the issue. All white people are not our enemies, obviously. Because this is a sophist concept, where you say, 'you know what, if the white man is my oppressor, then all white people must be aligned with that'. That is not true. We learnt, ultimately, class analysis. But as a child, I grew up knowing that black people were poor, and I don't want to be poor." - Elaine Brown You can find out more about Elaine on her website, or follow her on Twitter. Alia Gabres tweets here, while you can read more about her work here or watch her spoken word poetry on YouTube. 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.

The side wall of 3CR has been a beautiful and collaborative mural since I can remember. A new edition to our mural is Ms Saffaa's beautiful collaborative paste up project. On today's show I chat with Ms Saffaa about her activism and the poltiics of her art. We also hear a poem by the spectacular Mahogany L. Browne who was in Melbourne for the Women of the World festival at Footscray Community Arts Centre. Al Kufiyyeh 3arabeyyeh - Shadia Mansour

We listen to a panel discussion called Arts + Sovereignty which was part of the Wominjeka Festival at Footscray Community Arts Centre. The panel was facilitated by Paola Balla who was joined by a wonderful panel of guests including Rosie Kilvert, Kamahi King, Miliwanga Wurrben and Léuli Eshraghi. In this excerpt we will hear from Paola, Rosie and Miliwanga as they discuss the intersections of art and decolonisation.Alice Skye - You Are The Mountains

JOSH LYNZAAT (access officer) and TIM SNEDDON (co-writer/sound designer) from the DIG collective chat to hosts Ben and Jonathan about their upcoming production DoubleSpeak. DoubleSpeak is on Friday 20th - Saturday 21st May at 7:30pm at Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland St, VIC. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

JOSH LYNZAAT (access officer) and TIM SNEDDON (co-writer/sound designer) from the DIG collective chat to hosts Ben and Jonathan about their upcoming production DoubleSpeak.  DoubleSpeak is on Friday 20th - Saturday 21st May at 7:30pm at Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland St, VIC.   

New media has been central in modern activism, especially for people of colour who continue to be misrepresented and 'let down' by mainstream media. We listen to a panel discussion about the prominence of new media in asserting the voices of people of colour from Footscray Community Arts Centre's, 2015 West Writers: Our Stories Forum.We hear from founding editor of Future-Black Linda Kennedy, creative producer of Sovereign Trax Hannah Donnelly, and co-founder of Still Nomads, Samira Farah. The panel is moderated by founding editor of Ascension Magazine, Sasha Sarago. Lady Lash- Memory Chambers

On this episode of Queering the Air, Thanh Hằng covers mental health, self-care, community care and it's place in the Arts. We hear from Judy Atkinson, a Jiman and Budjalong woman whose work focuses on arts, healing, trauma and 'educaring'.We also chat to Rani Pramesti, theatre-maker and Associate Producer at Footscray Community Arts Centre, as well as Dawn Dangkomen, digital artist and writer as well as a MA student of Counselling and Psycotherapy.and finally we hear from Festival Director, Liz Alexander on Tilde, Melbourne's Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival coming up 13th-15th November.  

A conversation between Melbourne and Jakarta that traverses the role of women in the post-Suharto period. Zine making, DIY arts and crafts, and gender identity. From Jakarta, artist Ika Vantiani speaks about Jakarta's contemporary arts collective ruangrupa. Associate Producer Rani Pramesti, and founder of WANITA, Sooji Kim share their insights.This conversation was recorded in anticipation of Footscray Community Arts Centre's exhibtion and event series entitled WANITA: Female Artivism- Jakarta!Music from Empat Lima

We speak with LA based poet, performer, teaching artist and ice cream connoisseur Mayda Del Valle who is down in Melbourne for the Footscray Community Arts Centre's Poetic Days Weekend. She discusses representation, ancestral memory and the sexism in the spoken word poetry spaces. www.maydadelvalle.comMayda del ValleVida linda – MyVerse

 Thanh Hằng is joined by newest Queering the Air presenter, Jules Pereira.We hear from Thành Nguyễn, director of Queer Forever Festival, chat about Independent Arts and Censorship in Hà Nội  + the traditional vs the contemporary in classical Indian dance with Mohiniyattam dancer, Raina Peterson. Raina Peterson shares with us details about her upcoming show with dance partner Govind Pillai, 'In Plain Sanskrit' at Footscray Community Arts Centre. More details on In Plain Sanskrit here: http://footscrayarts.com/event/plain-sanskrit/Queer Forever Festival : https://www.facebook.com/Qforeverfestival   

On this week's podcast comedian Russell Brand calls in to chat about his trip to Australia coming up in October, well known Swedish actress Bianca Kronlof drops by to talk about the film, 'Underdog' on at the Scandinavian Film Festival, on "The Skillset" commentator Van Badham unpacks the cuts to arts funding by Arts Minister George Brandis and artist Dianne Jones talks about What Lies Buried Rises, a photographic exhibition on at The Footscray Community Arts Centre.