On Sunday January 19, 2025, Vision Australia Radio celebrated our return as access and inclusion partner to Midsumma festival by staging a live outside broadcast from Midsumma Carnival Day. 

The program was hosted by a range of Vision Australia Radio presenters. 

In this interview highlight, presenters Sam Colley and Karan Nagrani speak to Actor, Writer and Director Oliver Ayres in regards to the upcoming Midsumma Festival show, The Demon Twink of Smith Street.

Here's a link to the show: MONSTER | Chapel Off Chapel

You can learn more about the festival and our patnership with it, via the following link: Vision Australia Radio returns as Midsumma Festival Partner in 2025 | Vision Australia Radio

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On Sunday January 19, 2025, Vision Australia Radio celebrated our return as access and inclusion partner to Midsumma festival by staging a live outside broadcast from Midsumma Carnival Day. 

The program was hosted by a range of Vision Australia Radio presenters. 

In this interview highlight, presenters Sam Colley and Karan Nagrani speak to Vision Australia Radio and Audio Servcies manager Conrad Browne to understand VAR's desire to be an access and inclusion partner of the festival. 

You can learn more about the festival and our patnership with it, via the following link: Vision Australia Radio returns as Midsumma Festival Partner in 2025 | Vision Australia Radio

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On Sunday January 19, 2025, Vision Australia Radio celebrated our return as access and inclusion partner to Midsumma festival by staging a live outside broadcast from Midsumma Carnival Day. 

The program was hosted by a range of Vision Australia Radio presenters. 

In this interview highlight, presenters Sam Colley and Karan Nagrani speak to the CEO of Midsumma, Karen Bryant to learn about this year's festival.

You can learn more about the festival and our patnership with it, via the following link: Vision Australia Radio returns as Midsumma Festival Partner in 2025 | Vision Australia Radio

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Midsumma Festival, Victoria’s premier queer arts & culture festival takes place now until Feb 9. HONOUR is a live performance which elevates and celebrates the true royalty of First Peoples communities, Queer POC Elders. HONŌUR will introduce audiences to some of Melbourne’s most ICONIC legends in a celebration and ceremony of love and recognition that SLAYS the house down.

Friday 31 Jan, 8:30pm, Federation Square.

Performer Samuel Gaskin speaks to Vision Australia Radio's Conrad Browne to share more on their career and what attendees can expect from the performance in Naarm Melbourne.

For more info, visit midsumma.org.au.

Vision Australia Radio, is an access and inclusion partner to Midsumma Festival.

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On Sunday January 19, 2025, Vision Australia Radio celebrated our return as access and inclusion partner to Midsumma festival by staging a live outside broadcast from Midsumma Carnival Day. 

The program was hosted by a range of Vision Australia Radio presenters. 

You can learn more about the festival and our patnership with it, via the following link: Vision Australia Radio returns as Midsumma Festival Partner in 2025 | Vision Australia Radio

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Discover the unique world of Scented Cinema, presented by Brimbank City Council in collaboration with Snivure and Scented Storytelling. This interview highlight delves into two immersive, interactive, and aromatic film screenings on offer at Midsumma Festival. Join us as Vision Australia Radio’s Conrad Browne chats with Jas Brooks, Tammy Burnstock, and Jacob Tiauli about what makes these events so extraordinary.

The lineup features the cult classic Hairspray (1988) on January 24 and the New Zealand and Tongan LGBTQIA+ film Inky Pinky Ponky on February 7, both at the Bowery Theatre, St Albans Community Centre. Free tickets are available via midsumma.org.au, but registration is essential. Listen to learn how scent and storytelling combine to create a multisensory cinematic experience you won’t forget!

Vision Australia Radio is a proud access and inclusion partner to Midsumma Festival. 

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Sam catches up with Ben Harrington, training officer at Travellers Aid, to speak about the services available for not only passengers but event goers who are blind or have low vision to navigate their way around public spaces safely and accessibly.

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Sam speaks with Gerard Mason from Action Audio, working in collaboration with AO Radio and Vision Australia Radio to bring an auditory experience of live tennis to listeners who are blind or have low vision.

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Sam speaks with music therapist Emily Shanahan about the news that music and art therapies are under review, with questions around the level of NDIS funding available to them in 2025 and beyond.

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Vision Australia Radio Perth's Program Coordinator Gemma Sidney speaks to Australian author Laura Elizabeth Woollett for Literary Ear. Laura shares insights into her writing process, her inspiration for books Beautiful Revolutionary and West Girls (longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize), ahead of her six-month residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris.

Excerpts of this interview appear in the episode of Literary Ear about Laura and her fiction, airing on Friday 17 January 2025.

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