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Fanny Cochrane Smith was our first Aboriginal recording artist

March 11, 2021 • Indigenous • music • theatre • Women empowerment

In 1899 and 1903, Australia's first Aboriginal 'recording star' Fanny Cochrane Smith leaned into the brass trumpet of the Edison phonograph and sang about flowers and birds in her language of Pakana.

'I don't want people to see me like that'

March 04, 2021 • Artist • disability • disability stereotypes • performer • Restless Dance Theatre • theatre

Julia Hales has been able to express her personality and experience, beyond the fact of her disability, by working with Perth's DADAA (Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts) for the last 20 years — initially as a performer, and now also as part of their leadership team.

'No time for fairies'

March 04, 2021 • Anti discrimation • Artist • disability • performer • Restless Dance Theatre • theatre

Actor and circus performer Emma J Hawkins said casting is a still a serious issue for performers with disability.

Last year, Hawkins appeared in the Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre.

Fanny Cochrane Smith was our first Aboriginal recording artist

'I don't want people to see me like that'

'No time for fairies'

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