AWAYE! - Separate stories podcast

Blood is both a substance and a metaphor in a new dance theatre work by Jacob Boehme - the partly autobiographical Blood on the Dance Floor. It ranges over ground that’s deeply personal. It's also an ode to the generation who died at the height of the AIDS pandemic.

Up-and-coming singer Angela Rule's story of why she put aspirations of a music career on the back burner in order to help her widowed mother, is told in the NITV documentary Angela’s Rules.

The actor and emerging playwright Katie Beckett joins us to talk about her as yet unwritten play, a drama staged around the high incidence of Aboriginal child removals. Katie has just won the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwriting Award to develop the work for the stage.

The deadly asbestos mine in the northern New South Wales community of Baryulgil is the backdrop for a new short film by Larissa Behrendt, who's better known as a Harvard-educated law professor and lately, public commentator in The Guardian. Although the Baryulgil mine was never profitable, mining operations continued until the 1970s because it provided employment for the Aboriginal residents of Baryulgil.

This year the Barunga Festival celebrates its' 30th anniversary, and Tiwi Islands band B2M will be there to help celebrate.

As a songwriter and lead singer of independent band The Medics, Kahl Wallis has enjoyed great success. His next musical project is close to his heart: to discover his Wuthathi heritage from around the pristine white sand dunes of Shelburne Bay in Cape York - and to record his first full-length solo album in the process.

The Melbourne-based artist Reko Rennie has won a two-year Australia Council Fellowship to produce a multi-channel film set in Gamilaroi country in north-western New South Wales.

After a long and distinguished career in the arts as a practitioner and curator, Brenda L Croft is working on a two-year Australia Council Fellowship project which she describes as 'walking/mapping/memory-scapes' centred on her father's Gurindji homelands around Kalkaringi and Daguragu in the Northern Territory, the site of the Wave Hill walk-off.

The 56th Venice Biennale, perhaps the world's leading contemporary arts event, includes a strong Aboriginal presence. Daniel Boyd and the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye have been curated into the overall exhibition by Okwui Enwezor, the first African curator of the Venice Biennale, while Reko Rennie and Michael Cook are exhibiting their work in a collateral event, Personal Structures, at the Palazzo Mora.

To save the life of your captor while your body is in chains is a lesson in bravery and compassion. Neighbour, a tribal man from the Roper River region in the Northern Territory, received the Albert Medal for Lifesaving after he rescued the mounted police constable who was escorting him to incarceration across a flooded river in the wet season in 1911. Despite the uncommon bravery he displayed, Neighbour’s story has rarely spread further than his homeland.