Given it’s NAIDOC Week, it makes sense that Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez from Theatre Network Australia has selected First Nations circus performer, trainer with Flipside Circus, producer and creator of the Waterways project - Lara Croydon as the TNA member of the Month for July.

Then, sticking with the NAIDOC Week theme and as a follow up to last month’s visit with Jacob, Alisha and Timothy at Confined16, we’ll be talking about another powerful exhibition of works by First Nations artists who’ve experienced incarceration presented by the Torch, this time in partnership with Heide Museum of Modern Art – it’s called Blak In Justice and its curator Kent Morris is on the line to talk about it.

After that there’s more from Darebin Speakeasy – this time it’s award-winning visual artist, installation artist, spoken word poet, and storyteller wani toaishara who’s about to present his solo show Garçon.

And finally, Marc Gracie is back for a bit of a catch up on what we’ve seen on our Screens & Streams…

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

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To mark this year’s NAIDOC Week, Behind the Scenes presents this extended conversation between Chris Thompson and Kent Morris (proud Barkindji man) Creative Director of The Torch, who worked with Heide Museum of Modern Art to curate Blak In-Justice, a powerful and eclectic exhibition of works examining the issues of deaths in custody, the over representation of First Nations people in our prisons and the long history of injustice to our First Peoples all from the perspective of First Nations artists who have experienced incarceration. The exhibition runs until July 20 and Kent will be hosting a special artist talk at Heide on Saturday July 12 at 10am. (photo by James Morgan)

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In this Behind the Scenes NAIDOC Week special, Presenter Chris Thompson chats with Allara Briggs Pattison, a Yorta Yorta, musician, composer, storyteller, language learner, soundscape designer, curator and, as of late last year, community farmer. She plays double bass and uses a loop station to create works inspired by ancient oral traditions. Her spoken word stories reflect cultural, spiritual and environmental empowerment. In this conversation she speaks about how her work on the land and her work in music feed each other and talks about her collaborative music making ahead of her upcoming gig at Monash Performing Arts Centres as part of Blakout, the fantastic festival of works and performances by First Nations artists which began in Reconciliation Week and will end during NAIDOC Week.

Allara’s performance in the David Li Sound Gallery is on July 6 which is also the start of NAIDOC WEEK 2025.

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