Inspired by the totemic significance of green sea turtles in the Torres Strait, Waru is the first full-length children’s program from Bangarra Dance Theatre.
Elma Kris, Jenson Waru Sam and Frances Rings discuss the significance of taking the show to Waiben, Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, where it was performed in entirely in Kriol for the first time.
Then, Ngiyampaa artist Pirritu plays live in the Awaye studio.
Plus for Word Up head to Hope Vale with Tamara Pearson where she’ll share the Guugu Yimidhirr word for 'language'.
Black Comedy's final season and curator leads deeper engagement at NGA
Larissa Behrendt on legacies and the history-making all-Aboriginal cricket team
Shakespeare in Noongar and reckoning with January 25
Constable Care and honouring an Indigenous media pioneer
Talking truth and giving voice
Briggs takes aim at white privilege and can we heal our rivers?
New blak poetry and Malgana language revival
Melissa Lucashenko gets lippy and guided meditation, Anangu style
Clarence Walden is the boss of his own story
Reimagining first contact and a bunggul for Dr G
Koorioke carpool and ethics, Island way
Redrawing the map and art meets architecture
The voice of Australia
Decolonising the future
From the rock to the bight
Blurring the lines between traditional and contemporary
The life of an Aboriginal prophet
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