AWAYE! - Full program podcast

AWAYE! brings you diverse and vibrant Aboriginal arts and culture from across Australia.

Alethea Beetson shares how her most recent show Meet Your Maker influenced the way she thinks about theatre, performance and her own voice.

And Yamatji actor and director Bruce Denny discusses his show Operation Boomerang. 

Plus, for Word Up Will Blackley shares the Kalkatungu word for kangaroo. 

Earlier this year, Archie Moore became the second First Nations artist featured in the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale as a solo artist. He was also the first artist from Australia to win gold.

Visit Venice with Archie and his creative team to hear how kith and kin came together.

Ben Armstrong and Dr Rhett Loban discuss what it takes to embed First Nations perspectives in video games, and how games can do so much more than entertain us. 

Then, Kuku Yalanji man Jungaji's love of music has taken him on an incredible cultural journey.

Plus, Will Blackley shares the Kalkatungu name of a familiar constellation.

Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property – or ICIP - is a framework that describes all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ cultural expressions. 

This can mean medicinal knowledge, language, artistic expressions and more. But how do ICIP principles keep our culture strong? 

A panel discussion recorded at Garma festival answers that question. 

Plus for Word Up, Christine Anu shares a final word from her maternal grandfather’s language – Kala Kawa Ya.

Gayle Kennedy and Jared Thomas reflect of the legacy of Me, Antman & Fleabag, and discuss how the book could find a new audience now that it’s been included in UQP’s First Nations Classics series. 

Then, Lucy Norton shares a poem in honour of National Poetry Month.

Plus, Kirk Page is working with Rhoda Roberts to turn the story of the first Aboriginal Olympian into a play. 

And for Word Up, Christine Anu shares a little more Kala Kawa Ya.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always found guidance, connection and answers in the stars. 

In honour Science Week -- which this week ask us to look to the night sky -- Dr Krystal De Napoli and Peter Swanton discuss some of the astrophysical events witnessed by our ancestors.

Then, Aunty Ruth Ghee is helping translate an incredible feat of endurance into a musical for Opera Queensland.

It’s called Straight from the Strait and she’ll explain how she’s paying homage to a group of remarkable Torres Strait Islanders working on the Mount Newman railway construction project in the 1960s.

Plus, Christine Anu shares some more of her maternal grandfather’s language – Kala Kawa Ya.

Celebrate some of the best Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from emerging and established artists with the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.

Then on Wajarri Yamaji Country, scientists are looking to the night sky to unlock the secrets of the universe. Discover how the CSIRO has worked with traditional owners to design and build a major observatory.

And for Word Up, singer Christine Anu shares some of her mother's language — Kala Kawa Ya.

Having taken on stand-up comedy and acting, Steph Tisdell is adding a new string to her bow: fiction writing.

She explains how her debut novel The Skin I'm In explores the nuances of representation, and brings diversity to diversity.

Then choreographer Vicki van Hout discusses her upcoming surrealist sojourn into mortal musings set to take place at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

And for Word Up singer Christine Anu shares some of her mother's language - Kala Kawa Ya.

As writers embrace the need to accurately reflect real-world diversity on the pages of their books how do they make sure they’re walking in someone else’s shoes in a way that’s thoughtful, careful and sensitive?

Author, academic and publishing all-rounder Melanie Saward joins Awesome Blak’s Executive Director Travis De Vries to discuss the role of sensitivity reading and its implications in the publishing industry.

Plus for Word Up, join Henry Augustine on Nyul Nyul Country a final time, as he shares a word for ‘people’.