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'.
Daniel Boyd's Treasure Island, and Nardi Simpson talks Another Australia
Terrain returns to the stage, and centenarian Uncle Wes Marne
Leah Purcell on The Drover's Wife, and Stephen Page wins a Red Ochre Award
Awaye live from Sydney Writers Festival
Celebrating a decade of Ngana Barangarai, and Troy Russell's The Last Shot
Evelyn Araluen's Stella Prize win, and the Possum Skin Cloak Story
Clancestry, Eskatology, and the scarification of trees
The responsibility of culture
Unlimited Futures, and 'stillness' in Batjamalh
Repatriation and creation
SJ Norman's The Bone Library, and Kolour Me Kweer
Art and community, across all platforms, and all Nations
Mapping Frontier massacres, and telling "un-truths"
Blak hearts and minds
Theatre coast to coast, and Blak flood relief
Talkin' Up to the White Woman, and Warralgurniya
Dulka Warngiid and 'Circling Time' with Kutcher Edwards
Blak excellence on the page and stage
The next big Blak musical, and Kitchen Table Yarns with Archie Roach
Fanning flames of knowledge
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