Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival embraces the diversity of Blakfulla expression, from oral storytelling to epic novels and plays to poetry.

It’s something festival director Jane Harrison is passionate about. As a multi-disciplinary writer herself, Jane believes in growing the ecology of Blak writing.

Australian Dance Theatre is the oldest dance company in the country — next year they’ll celebrate their 60th year.

And their new show Marrow is choreographic course correction for a nation searching for a new direction.

With the show set for its world premiere at Adelaide Festival in just a few days, artistic director and Wiradjuri man Daniel Riley explains what message he hopes people can take from this new work.

Che Kelly in Kununarra is our language legend this month. He's learning and teaching Mirriwong at his local language centre Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring

Last week, Che told you a little about his nan and shared the Miriwoong word that means ‘to look around’.

Now he’s sharing a different Miriwoong word: one that’ll lift your eyes to the skies.

Trawlwoolway and Wiradjuri artist Canisha is a soulful singer with an edge.

Last year, she performed alongside the likes of Kobie Dee, Briggs and Chasing Ghost. You might’ve seen her at St Kilda Music Festival or Treaty Day Out this year.

Her debut EP is called 'Don’t Be Scared' and proves Canisha is not afraid to be lyrically vulnerable…. Or to lean into a sincere love of pop music.

She'll some of the stories that defined the EP, and perform live from Awaye's studio.

Crystal Love Johnson is an artist, a performer, an activist, an educator and a mentor. As a Sistergirl elder – the word often used for First Nations trans women – she’s seen and done pretty much everything.

Her art collective Yangamini, which consists of trans and non-binary artists, is taking part in the Sydney Biennale.

Together, the collective strengthens gender-fluid bush knowledge and challenges sexual repression, racialised governance, and mining extractions in the settler Northern Territory, to name a few things.

Chey Kelly is a Mirriwong man from Kununarra in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

There he's been learning and teaching his language, as part of a language nest at Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring.

For Word Up this week, Chey introduces you to his Country and shares a commonly used word.

Thomas Weatherall's Blue is not a typical coming of age story, and when it debuted at Sydney Festival last year it was a stand-out.

Now it’s gone to Adelaide on Kaurna Country and been entrusted to new hands — Callan Purcell.

Callan discusses how he's making the show his own.

In 1994, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-operative received a letter proposing an exhibition during that years’ Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras event.

The aim was to showcase images and works from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artist who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans or Queer.

The exhibition was also an opportunity to awareness of the issues being faced by that community.

These artists were a minority, within a minority and their artistic expression would create a completely unique exhibition.

It’s been thirty years since Looking Good opened at Boomalli, featuring the work of established an emerging Queer Black artists.

Please note: This story contains the names of people who have died.

A little over a year ago, the Labor government launched their National Cultural Policy - Revive. 

The first pillar of Revive is called First Nations First, and (amongst other things) it sets out to embed more creative autonomy in First Nations creative industries, build capacity for artists, and allow First Nations ways of thinking and doing to shape what is consider valuable in the art world.

One year on, what have we seen and what have we learnt?

Tamara Pearson is a choreographer, artist and mentor from Hope Vale in far north Queensland.

For the past three weeks, she’s shared Guugu Yimithirr words we can imagine as three legs of a stool.

Today, she explains how her previous words bama, guugu and bubu relate to each other, as well as share a word that means ‘to reciprocate’.