Welcome to the third episode of Á Tea For Two: A cuppa tea with two Creatives. This week Áine Tyrrell invites Jen Cloher in for a cuppa. I first met Jen when I shyly walked into her @imanagemymusic workshop many years ago and Jen is one of those people who set me on a path of independence and integrity. I admire Jen’s strength and curiosity in all I’ve seen since that first meeting. In that very first room we met in, Jen was holding space but also inquisitive to all the experience in the room and how we could all learn from each other. And in the years since, Jen has always been that kind of person in any room we have met in - houses, festivals, protests, and in Zoom Rooms - Jen has a way of connecting everyone together in a room and also pushing everyone to ask more questions and be more of ourselves. Jen inspires me greatly for all the questions posed inside, to the music community, and to society. A true thinker of our time and am honoured to be a friend. Jen's deepening of her understanding of what it has meant to be a Maoiri on stolen land has been a constant place we meet and find empowerment and conversation. As an Irish woman on stolen land, Jen is someone I can go deep into it with. I am grateful to have Jen as a sister on this journey. And I can’t wait to invite ye in to what our cups of tea are like.

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ÁT42  a place for the types of real chats that happen over a cuppa not all structured like a proper interview, just a place to let what is in the space between two creatives come up. The intimacy of a cuppa.... you know that special moment with a friend over tea where the conversation can go anywhere? 

I couldn't be MORE honoured that my sister Emily Wurramara is coming to chat. Although Emily and I were born on opposite sides of the world, in different decades, and with completely different cultural landscapes, Emily is my person. You know one you call who knows all the parts of you. She understands my music self, my motherhood self, my native language singing self, my cultural self, my survivor self, my warrior self, my vulnerable self, my fun self, my serious self, my activist self, my fuck you self, and DO WE LAUGH at ourselves, yes we do.  She gets all these bits of me cause she IS of the same. We are same same but different and that is the sisterhood we rock. We may not have been born of the same parents, but the universe conspired to ignite our cells the same way.  

This podcast is here because I want to bring YOU closer to the conversations that creatives like Emily and I have with each other. The things that don't always make it into our Instagram posts and stage shows. We became sisters after finding each other in a toilet in Brisbane ahead of a show together and supported each other since that moment. She is honest, raw and so talented that it makes me weak and she is one of those quiet leaders who doesn't even know the impact she has on all those that are lucky to be in commune with her. Ye are gonna love her. And if you don't..... ousss ousss!  Can't wait to invite ye into listen to all that brews between us!

“Emily Wurramara is one of music’s most inspiring Indigenous role models, and it’s only up from here” - Beat Magazine
"Originating from Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory, the AIR award-winning and ARIA-nominated artist released an 11-track album Milyakburra, educating and informing in both English and Anindilyakwa languages. Emily is a six time Queensland Music Award winner, she was selected for the AMP Tomorrow Maker Award and won AIR Award’s Best Blues and Roots Album of the Year"

WHAT A BOSS!!!!! 

WEBSITE for more info on Emily: https://www.emilywurramara.com.au/

PATREON for Emily: https://www.patreon.com/theemilywurramara

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The First Á Tea For Two has brought Áine around the virtual kitchen table with the inspiring and incredible Deirdre Mulrooney. Dee is an Irish artist, living and working in Berlin. She is oozing integrity, talent, and love. Her work comes from a deep well that both these two speak about wisely throughout the episode. The Cuppa ventures down and around the deep wells of Irish identity abroad to types of tea in Germany, Ireland and Australia and to the very Irish trait of working with the shadow. It then dives deeper into to Dee's journey to art through COVID and the slowing down of things to life speed. We learn about Dee as a teacher and about Dee's performance art piece, Growler and the fear she feels but does it anyways to show up in her art. Dee drops incredible gems as well as many laughs between the sisterhood at this cuppa. 

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Dee Mulrooney was raised working-class in a small nation dominated by Catholicism and men, she now lives as a teacher, a mother, and an artist discovering the joy of playing with taboos and visions of female identity that would until all to recently have seen her locked away. Her projects span visual art, film, storytelling and theatre. Her influences are a long list—basically any woman who ever did a damned thing worth doing.

Find out more about Dee through her website: http://deirdre-mulrooney.com/
Facebook/Insta @DeeMulrooney
Growler's Insta @growlerspeaks

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