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Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS), Dr Varina Michaels on Women of Colour in Australian Workplaces, and local artist YARA
Samira chats with legal observer Logan from volunteer organisation Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS), which is a group of lawyers, barristers, and human rights advocates who field trained Legal Observer Teams to monitor and report on police actions at protest events as well as provide resources on civil and legal rights.Then volunteer executive director of not-for-profit organisation Women of Colour Australia (WoCA) Dr Varina Michaels discusses the landmark Women of Colour in Australian Workplaces research report, which collected the experiences of 543 diverse women.Finally, Naarm-based Palestinian songwriter and performer YARA chats about her recent set at Meredith Music Festival and upcoming performance at the Coburg Night Market.
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Australian Femicide Watch and The Red Heart campaign founder Sherele Moody, and Gold Coast-based Burundian-Australian artist Beckah Amani
Journalist Sherele Moody, founder of Australian Femicide Watch and The Red Heart campaign, talks to Samira about the importance of remembering and tracking women and children's murders. And Gold Coast-based Burundian-Australian artist Beckah Amani chats about her recent tours and new album ‘This is How I Remember It’.
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Dr Sam Whiting, Guewel, Hyphenated Projects, and Colonialists Can’t Dance
This week Samira is joined by Dr Sam Whiting, Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University and a 2024 Churchill Fellowship recipient, to discuss challenges faced by grassroots music venues in Australia and his travels to the UK and Europe in 2025 as part of his Churchill Fellowship to investigate and learn from the work of the UK Music Venue Trust.She then has a chat with director and composer Lamine Sonko of 13.12 about Guewel. In collaboration with the National Theatre of Senegal, Guewel explores an ancient African cosmovision, illuminating new perspectives of the world around us.Samria then talks with Nikki Lam, co-director of Hyphenated Projects, an artist-led network nurturing practice in Asian diasporas focusing on supporting artists who operate with hyphens culturally, socially and geographically.She is then joined by musician Yona Su who talks about Shrishti, a new collective dedicated to promoting diverse experimental music, embracing improvised, notated, and electronic approaches to music-making, and Shrishti's upcoming event Colonialists Can’t Dance.
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'Beneath Roads', the A.W. Bell Community Picket, and Tjum Tjumba
General Vibes fills in for Samira this week. They speak with Jenna Rain Warwick, a First Nations artist and ACMI curator, about her latest exhibition 'Beneath Roads', a three-channel work at ACMI running from June 25th to August 25th. Next, by Amanda Villalobos rings in to discuss the A.W. Bell Community Picket, organised by the “Weapons Out of Naarm” Campaign, and Australia's involvement in manufacturing weapons that are being used by Israel on it's war on Gaza..Last but not least, General Vibes is joined in the studio by Harley Jobling to talk about Tjum Tjumba's Launch Fundraiser as part of Leaps and Bounds Festival and making space for Indigenous artists.
A weekly in-depth exploration of arts, culture and media, featuring deep-dive interviews alongside an eclectic mix of music, hosted by Samira Farah.
The intro and outro theme is Soft Illusion and was generously provided by Andras.
https://andras.bandcamp.com/track/soft-illusion
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