The Drawing Room

Jaguar Jonze is a major voice in the Australian music industry: speaking out on racism, sexism and abusive behaviour and helping to start a important cultural review.

And on the creative side, the last 18 months has seen an EP, a short film, a huge new single, and plenty more.

In the Drawing Room, Jonze discusses music, art, community, healing and the new review.

With a passion for songs and a killer voice, Wanita has dreamed of being a country music star since she was a little girl.

The years have gone by, and a lot of life has happened along the way, but dreams don't have to fade.

And so Wanita set off to Nashville to record an album, with a documentary team in tow.

Several years ago, Omar Musa had reached what he describes as a dark night of the soul. Then, a chance encounter with woodcarving at a show in Borneo gave him a new passion and a chance to connect with the playfulness he'd lost in his work.

His latest book, Killernova, combines prose, poetry and carvings, to become a piece of art as well as a collection of the same.

When a young boy is killed in a hit and run accident and the police close the case for lack of evidence, his mother sets out to take revenge into her own hands.

But vengeance is never easy and wealth is a powerful defence.

Cush Jumbo talks about her starring role in The Beast Must Die.

For the last five years, First Nations Australian composers have been working with Ensemble Offspring to create a new generation of music.

This weekend at the Sydney Opera House, the ensemble will be showcasing the work in a concert titled Composing Songlines.

What happens when the details of our past are set aside and forgotten?

And what does it mean to reclaim the traumas of history and find the stories and people that were left behind?

In Luke Stegemann's book, Amnesia Road, he looks at the histories of Australia and Spain and the ways that their experiences talk to each other.

Here in the After is the the story of Anna and Nat, two broken souls, both with PTSD, struggling to find a place in a world they no longer fit.

Anna is the sole survivor of a Sydney terrorist attack. She is stalked by flashbacks and can't relate to anyone anymore except her little grandson. Nat is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He is guilt-ridden and angry.

They have so little in common, these two. And yet so much. It is the story of their friendship as they try to find a way to heal.

Sir Howard Panter is a major figure of British theatre, who has made his name behind the scenes.

Australian filmmaker Eva Orner has turned her eye on a range of complicated topics in her documentaries: from asylum seekers to Bikram Choudhury.

Her latest work, Burning, takes viewers into Australia's Black Summer and looks at both the fires themselves and the broader story of climate change in Australia.

Amos Roach is an award-winning musician, dancer and director.

He's been working with the Melbourne International Jazz Festival and the Australian Art Orchestra in their inaugural First Nations artist residency program.

In the Drawing Room, he talks about the six seasons that influenced his new work and playing music with his family.