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Saturday 25 Mar 2017
We track the history of Aboriginal participation at the Venice Biennale - the Olympics of the art world.
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In just sheer weight of numbers of performances and events, Melbourne's Indigenous-led Yirramboi is - to all intents and purposes - a major arts festival.
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We meet a teacher who shares some Guugu Yimithirr - the Aboriginal language that gives us the word kangaroo.
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Saturday 18 Mar 2017
From the forced closure of Aboriginal communities to the trauma of the stolen generations, Ali Cobby Eckermann is not afraid to use her literary voice.
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Language is a time machine for Yugambeh speaker John Graham.
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Racism and empathy do battle in the screen adaptation of the much-loved Australian novel Jasper Jones. But if you blink you could miss the Aboriginal hero in the new film by director Rachel Perkins.
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What does it mean to live off country? For some of us it can present challenges. Choreographed by Mariaa Randall, Divercity explores the complexities of a transplanted life.
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Saturday 11 Mar 2017
The latest genetic research establishes a scientific basis for what's termed 'connection to country'. The key to that research - locks of hair collected by anthropologists last century.
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The Boonwurrung language was once spoken from what is now Melbourne south to Wilson's Promontory.
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The soprano Deborah Cheetham has composed a war requiem - to honour the Gunditjmara who died in defence of their country.
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Saturday 4 Mar 2017
His paintings are among the most reproduced images in Australian art. So why does a family from Sydney's North Shore own exclusive rights to reproduce the artwork of Albert Namatjira?
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We learn some Adnyamathanha with language worker Clayton Cruse.
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In the Tiwi islands north of Darwin there's a strong and vibrant community of sistergirls, who are an integral part of their society. The Sistergirls will march in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade in traditional Tiwi designs that they're screenprinted themselves.
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Saturday 25 Feb 2017
Jessie Lloyd has spent the past few years on something of a treasure hunt - to discover the oral traditions of community song.
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Karina Lester shares three words in Yankunytjatjara - one even describes a deferential way of speaking that's like a language within a language.
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Bangarra's youth outreach program is not about discovering new talent. Instead the company works with communities to develop a dance work that draws on their own stories - over three years.
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Saturday 18 Feb 2017
The oldest voice recordings ever made of an Aboriginal person have been inscribed on the world register of public memory.
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The University of Sydney holds hundreds of objects of Aboriginal material culture - from Yirrkala bark paintings to the pandanus sail of a Yolngu canoe.
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We learn some Anindilyakwa - the language spoken on some of the islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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We meet three architects who speculate on the ways architecture and design can embed Indigenous cultures - from residential homes to public buildings.
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Saturday 11 Feb 2017
Vernon Ah Kee's major solo exhibition Not An Animal Or A Plant might have been a retrospective.
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Wiradjuri man Jason O'Neil shares three words that describe the break of day, a way of living that's like a moral code and a term of farewell.
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Who’s Afraid of Colour? is a new exhibition drawn from one of the world's best collections of Aboriginal art.
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Can you imagine a school that covers 48,000 square kilometres?
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