Vanessa has a yarn with First Nations soprano Sarah Prestwidge who will be performing on Deborah Cheetham Fraillon's Parrwang lifts the sky at the Malthouse theatre, also Cheryl Leavy (Kooma and Nguri Nations)…
Banksia host Vanessa Morris is joined by Susannah Day, CEO of The Torch, ahead of the opening of exhibition Confined 15, which provides a dedicated space for First Nations people who have experienced…
Vanessa Morris is joined by proud Wik and Solomon Islander artist Ziggy Ramo ahead of the release of the book, album and exhibition, Human? A lie that has been killing us since 1788.
Join Vanessa as she sits down with RONA., a Mparntwe and Naarm-based producer, Kaytetye artist, and DJ. In this episode, RONA. discusses her latest release, 'Be My Medicine' along with past projects, upcoming…
Vanessa chats to Young Onez youth summit organisers, Sherene Stewart and Rosie Kalina who help run a 3 day First Nations festival in Narrm, connecting creatives from ages 13-30 to mentors thorugh various…
Caleb Nichols-Mansell, artist and creator of Blackspace, an Aboriginal art space, joined Vanessa Morris to talk about Conduit and Country. Also Jane Harrison, playwright novelist, literery festival director and researcher, talks about the…
Vanessa speaks with Filipino/Wiradjuri artist Mo’Ju ahead of their show at St Kilda Festival on February 17. They chat about their 2023 album ORO, PLATA, MATA, their recent pop-up show Jeepney Jams…
Naomi Diane, Gamilaroi singer/songwriter & artist, joins Vanessa to talk about her debut single 'Chasing the Sun,' reflecting on moving states, making connections in a new area and collaborating with friends.
This week on Banksia, Kiwat Kennell welcomes the Gunai/Kurnai, Emmy Webbers to the studio. They chat about the Koorie Heritage Trust's 2024 Blak Design Program, and more.
Kiwat Kennell fills in, and speaks withFred Gesha about the upcoming St Kilda Festival 2024, Australia's largest free community music festival. Djaran Murray-Jackson from the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria talks about…
Kiwat Kennell speaks with Sherene Stewart, a Taungurung/Filipino woman, curator, and artist who is also the festival co-lead of YIRRAMBOI about their upcoming program.
On this episode on Banksia, we hear from Tom Mosby, CEO of Koorie Heritage Trust and oganiser of the Koorie Artshow, and Cienan Muir, founder and organiser of INDIGINERD, a community of First…
Kiwat Kennell speaks with Clay Holland and Fjorn Bastos about Blak Pearl Studio, a creative drop-in space for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and about their upcoming end-of-year exhibition running from the…
Vanessa Morris speaks to Noongar Wongi rapper Flewnt about his new single ‘Souwess’, a love song to the west, along with the power of hip-hop as an art form.
Vanessa Morris speaks with Nina Fitzgerald, founder of Laundry Gallery in the Northern Territories, on the House of Darwin x Laundry Gallery pop-up in Fitzroy, and how Laundry Gallery works to represent modern…
Vanessa Morris speaks with Yhonnie Scarce on her installation In Absence, made in collaboration with architecture studio Editio Office, that invites audiences to confront the fallacy of Terra nullius.
Vanessa Morris speaks with Kerry Kennell about Kennell&Co's Artist Assist, a business development program that will support 40 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander female, transgender and non-binary people within Australia's music industry…
Noongar, Ngapuhi and NgatiTuwharetoa woman Kiri Tawhai on Geelong Arts Centre's Little Mallop Street project and Djugun-Yawuru man Michael Jalaru Torres on his work in Ballarat International Foto Biennale.
Banksia - For a special Radiothon episode, Vanessa Morris chats to fellow First Nations Triple R presenters Emmy and Bumpy from 'Pebbles', about the legacy and importance of Triple R as a platform…
Vanessa Morris interviews Artistic Director of Bangarra, Frances Rings, about their involvement with Bangarra's Yuldea production, coming to The Arts Centre Melbourne 27 September - 7 October 2023.
This week on Banksia, Composer Leon Rodgers on sound for Bangarra's Yuldea and Dena Curtis on Rebel With A Cause - a four part doco series screening at MIFF and NITV.
Wergaia and Wemba Wemba writer Susie Anderson joins Vanessa Morris on Banksia to discuss new book The Body Country, which is a collection of poems spanning rural and urban settings, from the…
