AWAYE!
Awaye! means 'listen up' in the Arrernte language of central Australia. It is produced and presented by Aboriginal broadcasters and is Australia's only national Indigenous arts and culture program. It covers music (from the yidaki and gumleaf to techno), arts, spirituality, politics, dance, literature and theatre. Awaye! is also a showcase for features and documentaries produced by indigenous people overseas, including Maori, Polynesian, native American and South African broadcasters.
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4 Episodes of this Podcast:
2009-11-14 Sisters of Gelam
Published: 2009-11-13 09:00:00A new play explores the journey of two sisters from Melbourne to their father´s homeland in the Torres Strait and the post-war migration of their Dutch mother. Sisters of Gelam is about the universal search for identity, interwoven with contemporary and traditional song. A murdered Murri assassin returns from the dead to seek revenge in Nicole Watson´s award-winning manuscript The Boundary and we yarn with the Wadi Wadi elder Allan Carriage as he fishes off the point at Port Kembla south of Wollongong.
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2009-11-07 Larapuna (Bay of Fires)
Published: 2009-11-06 09:00:00A magnificent stretch of coastline in north-eastern Tasmania was named the Bay of Fires by an English explorer in 1773 as he watched the smoke rise from campfires lit by the first Tasmanians who knew it as Larapuna. We go on a sound journey along the coast, described by Lonely Planet as the `hottest´ travel destination in the world. Music credits milaythina nika mana mapali by Dewayne EverettsmithWords by C. Mansell, H. Sculthorpe, J. Sculthorpe, T. Sainty. Music by D. Everettsmith This is a song celebrating the Tasmanian Aboriginal people's connection to Country. It was written by women from the Tasmanian Aboriginal community and it is sung in palawa kani. milaythina nika milaythina-mana (This land is our country) tapilti larapuna, tapilti putalina (From Eddystone Point, to Oyster Cove) tapilti kunanyi, tapilti tayaritja (From Mount Wellington to the Bass Strait Islands) milaythina nika waranta pakana (As long as we remember them) waranta palawa, milaythina nika (This country is us, and we are this country) Oanyi by Ash DarganOanyi is Ash´s first piece of music he composed since settling in Tasmania. It is inspired by an experience on a southern Tasmanian beach where Ash found himself alone watching in awe as the waves carried with them their very own rainbows as the wind blew the sea spray against the incoming tide. Oanyi is an Aboriginal word for rainbow. Mannalargenna by Ronnie and Dy SummersThis song tells the story of Tasmanian Aborigine, Mannalargenna, who was the chief of the Ben Lomond tribe (Plangermaireener). It tells of his betrayal by George Augustus Robinson and him dying in captivity at Wybalenna in 1835.
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2009-10-31 No Place Like Home
Published: 2009-10-30 10:00:00Tony Albert is one of Australia´s most collectable artists. His latest series of work No Place Like Home is at least partly inspired by the Wizard of Oz, incorporating a pair of glittery Adidas sneakers, Mexican wrestling masks and riot photography. Also we go backstage with the vocal harmony group Freshwater and hear an excerpt from the manuscript that´s won the prestigious David Unaipon Award, a baldly cynical work of fiction about race politics in Queensland.
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2009-10-24 Will to Live (part 2)
Published: 2009-10-23 10:00:00Last year in Adelaide leading scholars from around the world joined with Aboriginal health workers to try and find a pathway for health equality to be achieved within a generation. But while Indigenous health workers welcomed the Federal Government's commitment to Close the Gap, many remain sceptical. This week in part two of 'Will to Live', our series on Indigenous Health, Tony Collins talks to academics and health workers at the coalface who are all trying to find solutions to Australia's biggest health crisis.
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