Awaye! - Full Program Podcast

Uncle Jack Charles talk about what it means to be named Male Elder of the Year at the NAIDOC Awards, and playwright and director Wesley Enoch brings Sunshine Club back to the stage.

It’s NAIDOC Week — a time to celebrate and honour all the ways that mob get up, stand up, and show up.

Composer and performer William Barton discusses his new compositional work for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Of The Earth. Then, musician and social historian Jessie Llyod brings you her new album Four Winds.

Tony Birch shares how growing up in Fitzroy influenced his writing, and artist Naomi Hobson discusses her vibrant photographic series Adolescent Wonderland.

Artist Daniel Boyd walks us through his exhibition Treasure Island, and Yuwaalaraay writer and musician Nardi Simpson talks us through Another Australia.

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Frances Rings explains how Kati Thanda inspired one of her most acclaimed works. And centenarian Uncle Wes Marne shares his debut collection of poetry, Through Old Eyes.

Leah Purcell discusses her newest iteration of The Drover's Wife, and Stephen page is honoured with a Red Ochre Award

Writers Jackie Huggins, Chelsea Watego, Lorna Munro and Evelyn Araluen discuss what "Unmitegatedly Black" success looks like in literary spaces, and the value of collectivism.

Black Wallaby is a creative writing program started by Aunty Barbara Nicholson at the Junee Correctional Centre. Troy Russel and Lily Shearer explain how a single piece of music grew into a musical about star crossed lovers on the run.

Evelyn Araluen wins the 2022 Stella Prize, and we hear about an old fairytale with a Blak twist.

Lara Croydon brings the highlights from QPAC's Clancestry, Ngarrindjeri rapper Eskatology discusses his new single, and Paul Girrawah House brings Ceremony into the gardens of the NGA with his tree scarring practice.

Brittanie Shipway's A Letter For Molly and Richard Franklin's No More Sugar, No More Tea each explore matrilineal stories for the stage.

Unlimited Futures is a new anthology of speculative and visionary fiction from Blak and Black writers and poets.

Today, repatriation and the porous nature of objects, for the first time since they were taken in 1770 three Kamay spears are returning to Sydney.

SJ Norman is an artist comfortable with mess and the trouble of things, and his latest iteration of his ‘Bone Library’ is a perfect example. Plus, a celebration of diverse LGBTIQA+ people is taking place in Blacktown and Western Sydney.

This week, we meet Hetti Perkins, the senior Curator-at-large of Ceremony, the fourth National Indigenous Art Triennial, and Rhoda Roberts, curator of the Parrtjima Festival.

The final update of a project mapping massacres on Australia’s colonial frontier, a tour from Alice Skye, and a trip to Mount Gambier.

A new documentary is telling the story of how remote Aboriginal communities across the top end of Australia are working to eliminate rheumatic heart disease, and Mak Mak Marranunggu musician J-Milla talks music and mentorship.

Koori Mail’s General Manager Naomi Moran takes us to the flood affected Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, plus Meyne Wyatt joins us from Noongar Country where his debut play City of Gold will be re-staged.

The formidable thinker Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson discusses her seminal work Talkin Up to the White Woman. Plus, Thiinma and Warriyangga man Peter Salmon shares how he's using music to revitalise his languages.