AWAYE! - Separate stories podcast

As part of ‘Clancestry, a celebration of country’ earlier this year in Brisbane, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, historians and writers gathered to discuss the contested story within Henry Reynolds’ latest book, Forgotten War.

The Garrmalang Festival has been dubbed a first of it's kind. Created with the local Aboriginal people of the Darwin area in the Northern Territory, the festival is believed to be the first to actively promote the cultural practices and beliefs of the Larrakia peoples.

Next Wave Festival 2014’s keynote initiative this year was Blak Wave -  a program of exhibitions, talks and publications which explored the political, personal and aesthetic boundaries of contemporary Indigenous art.

Sean Jorvn is a theatrical hydra - the persona of multidisciplinary artists Colin Kinchela and Gavin Walters. Their new production SEETHrough navigates the universal transition to manhood and the quest to be 'a good man'.

Ghenoa Gela has choreographed a new work that represents the four winds that prescribe life in the islands of the Torres Strait. Ghenoa explores the characteristics of each wind through dance and weaves a complex web of interlacing creation stories, told in a contemporary way.

Steaphan Paton has created an interactive, augmented reality 3D site-specific installation for the Next Wave Festival. You can view the artwork in one geo-tagged vicinity through a specially designed smartphone application using the phone itself as a woomera - documenting the interaction in the process.

Megan Cope interrogates the certification of Aboriginality in her new film work The Blaktism. The artist is at the centre of a transformative quasi-religious but absurdist ritual where a host of Australian stereotypes perform a 'blaktism'.

Choreographer Carly Sheppard has produced a deeply personal dance work that cuts through media perceptions of Aboriginality and the experience of being 'light-skinned'.

We meet some of the emerging artists who feature in Blak Wave, the keynote initiative of the 2014 Next Wave Festival. Seven new works have been commissioned from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists working across the artforms.

The story of the Chooky Dancers began when the dance troupe from Galiwinku on Elcho Island, at the eastern tip of the Northern Territory became overnight sensations back in 2007 after a video clip was posted online.