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

Explore opening weekend of Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi at the Art Gallery of South Australia with Yhonnie Scarce, Carol Puruntatameri, Libby Harward and Dominique Chen.

Plus for Word Up Gari Tudor-Smith shares the Gangulu  word for bird.

Dakota Feirer's poetry collection Arsenic Flower blossomed in the soil of stolen Country thanks to love, resistance and sacrifice.

He discusses negating the cycles of trauma, and the experience of finishing a manuscript while living and studying overseas.

Then head to SXSW Sydney with Awesome Black's founder and Executive Directory, Travis de Vries. 

And for Word Up, Gari Tudor-Smith reflects on the way familiar stories and words that are familiar, deepen in meaning over time.

Candice discusses the how Uncle Archie Roach's Singing Our Futures program nurtures emerging musical talent, and introduces some of this year's remarkable cohort of mentees: Naomi Diane, Torres Green, and Wren Arkose.

Plus, for Word Up Gari Tudor-Smith shares a Gangulu word with a dual meaning.

ILBIJERRI Theatre Company has welcomed celebrated playwright, director and dramaturge Andrea James as their new artistic director and co-CEO.

Andrea discusses what drew her to the role, and why she intends to celebrate "Boldness, Blakness and Brilliance" in all its full power.

Mooghalin Performing Arts’ artistic director  and co-founder Lily Shearer and producer Leroy Parsons discuss how the biennial Yellamundie Festival is bringing together First Nations creatives to develop six sound, movement and theatre works.

Then former Bangarra dancer Yolande Brown returns to the company as a creative force behind their new work for children: The Bogon’s Song.

And for Word Up language champion Ray Dimakarri Dixon shares the Mudburra word for ‘water’.

Loki Liddle and Reece Bowden from Selve discuss the subversive energy of developing their album Breaking into Heaven on Jabbir Jabbir Country, refinind it in Paris, and recording it at Abbey Road.

Plus, for Word Up Ray Dimakarri Dixon shares the Mudburra word for a ‘spirit’ or ‘guide’ of Country.

Having published her memoir Long Yarn Short, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts discusses the provocation that "writing is activism" and consider how stories can build bridges where bureaucracy has built walls.

Plus, for Word Up Ray Dimakarri Dixon shares the Mudburra word for 'tree'.

Journey to the warm, salty breezes of Far North Queensland where Torres Strait Islander author Lenora Thacker has set her debut historical fiction novel that pulses with three living languages.

The Pearl of Tagai Town weaves Kala Lagaw Ya, Meriam Mir, and Yumplatok into a groundbreaking wartime love story.

Plus for Word Up, language legend Neenah Gray shares more of her father's language—Darumbal. 

Fresh from her National Indigenous Music Awards  Hall of Fame induction, Jessica Mauboy traces her journey from classroom rebel to cultural powerhouse.