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Reframe discussions about access and consider the way we interact with the arts, inclusive practices and the world around us. With Jessica Ibacache and Hannah Morphy-Walsh. Critical Conversations brings the future into the present, centring Indigenous voices, looking beyond access, transcending gender and placing artists at the centre of social change. Recorded at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the inaugural Future Echoes festival, Critical Conversations invites you to engage with the arts, the world, the present and the future.
Thursday Breakfast 4 April 2019Acknowledgement of CountryNick Carson gives us a report back on the Transgender Day of Visibility Rally that took place on Sunday 31st March 2019.Jeremy Poxon from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union on the Dignity Not Dole: Rally to raise Newstart today. Hannah Morphy-Walsh, Associate Producer at FCAC, joins me in the studio to discuss the Wominjeka Festival (6 April 2019). Adolfo Aranjuez, editor-in-chief of Archer magazine, on the need to be 'More than Queer' (Wheeler Centre, 9 April 2019) Eric on the RISE Queer Project Launch, Dinner and Fundraiser (13 April 2019) and the intersections of border imperialism, racism, homophobia and transphobia. The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: Kalyani & Isha, That's All I Came ForAllara, Wala is LifePhilly, Yil Lull(Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)
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)
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.