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We know that end-times despair is far from a new experience. In this episode of Halycon Daze, we trace a thread through the last forty years, one that weaves through the fringe and sometimes into the centre of pop culture – that says ‘we’re afraid’, ‘we’re getting it wrong’ and ‘things must change’. Featuring music and words that have forefronted the threat of ecological collapse, defying ceaseles...

Halcyon Daze E6 with Mia - Rave SpecialIt’s 11pm on a Monday night, but I’ll be taking you back, deep, into the weekend, to a rave. These illegal party spaces are deeply connected with survival and resistance in the end-times. They are, at their heart, spaces of world creation; who do we want to be, how do we want to be, outside of the normative gaze? TRACKLIST:Wilson Tanner - Idleai yamamoto - Ca...

Episode 5 of Halcyon Daze, a show about love and rage, joy and sorrow, resistance and acceptance in the end times. Tonight’s show is about place. As we witness the collapse of ecosystems and stare down the end of this civilization, connecting to our places is crucial. Where are we fighting for? What do we stand to lose? What fuels the fight? What makes us, and what can remake us as we need to be r...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In episode 13 of Radio A & A Anne-lise and Ani interview Mark and Nick from Crimes of Class.  Told through the lived experiences of the authors, Crimes of Class is an exploration of regional and rural working-class lives...

A show about facing collapse – of ecosystems, civilisations, lifeways, worldviews.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~We’ve sat with grief. We’ve welcomed anger. Tonight, a different pace.  In the afterglow of a massive win for the native forest protection movement in Victoria, as well as of some incredible work by Blockade Australia last week, we take this opportunity for celebration. We attempt, as...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In episode 12 of Radio A & A Anne-lise and Ani interview Mark and Nick from Crimes of Class.  Told through the lived experiences of the authors, Crimes of Class is an exploration of regional and rural working-class lives...

Dan Tranh to Tinh and his family is like a teddy bear that comforts them, despite whatever distance to their homeland. Tinh Than plays on the đàn tranh , a  tradtional plucked zither of Vietnam, whose origins come from an ancient bamboo-tube zither in Southeast Asia. Tinh Than as Subject Δ(Delta), remembers the past yet pushes forward, combining traditional methods with modern musical elements and...

Halcyon Daze, a show about love and rage, joy and sorrow, resistance and acceptance in the end times. A space to stay with grief and loss; about everything that’s gone, and everything that’s going. Songs for teary times; poems that give voice to the lump in the throat; plus a conversation with a former hospital chaplain abut facing loss head-on. TRACKLIST:Everything Everything – Indigo Sparkes10 d...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In episode 11 of Radio A & A Anne-lise and Ani explored collective spaces for support and healing as an anti-dote to experiences of violence that are often individualised and pathologising. Monday 8th May 2023 11pm on 3C...

In episode 2 of What Your Seek Is Seeking You with Nadia Niaz on Writing Home, we continue exploring language, kinship, representation, and culture.  I’ve been reflecting a lot about language since I last saw Nadia, language that sometimes feels inadequate to give a description to the sensory, to memory, of the mundane, and also things that are extraordinary. Someone like me who speaks 4 and reads...

‘Halcyon Daze’ ANGRY SPECIALTune in to find out what a teacher said this week that has Mia fuming, and move through the end-times anger with poetry, music, and a very special interview with a bin chicken expert. Featuring timeless lyrics like "I wanna burn them" and "I'm thinking violence is the answer," tune in to get mad, feel sad and stay rad! Monday, March 27, 11pm-12am on 855am and on demand...

At Writing Home, I and Nadia who is my teacher, inspiration, and someone who shares home with me in language and our love for mountains came to the station to remind me of some very important things about writing, homesickness, kinship and nurturing.  I am certain the world is only there to alienate us from ourselves. It surely isn’t made for us but it is also incapable of accommodating the beauty...

"If these are the halcyon days, and we are in the midst of beauty and fresh air and fresh water, we need to lean into it. We need to call it forward, be in it, be present to the exquisiteness of the world so that we might call forward more of that." - Catherine IngramMia shares quotes, songs and poems that help carry her through these end-times. Plus, an interview with a Blockade Australia activis...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In episode 10 of Radio A & A Anne-lise and Ani explored the role of shame in journeys of accountability. We talked about how shame can both support and get in the way of change. Monday 30th May 11pm on 3CR 855am. Broadca...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In this Valentine’s Day episode of Radio A & A Anne-lise and Ani explored love and romance within dominator culture, how and where we learn about love and what these big ideas have meant for us, our lives, and the world...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In the eighth episode of Radio A & A we interviewed Julia Rose Bak about disability justice and the Disability Justice Network. The Disability Justice mutual aid fund can be found here: https://gofund.me/49b810bd Monday...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In the seventh episode of Radio A & A we explored our learnings and thoughts on transformative justice informed community responses to harm. Monday 6th December 11pm on 3cr 855am Broadcasted on the stolen land of the Wur...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In the sixth episode of Radio A & A we interviewed Scott Mills about ethics, frameworks and approaches when working with men who use family and intimate partner violence. Scott has worked in a number of roles working wit...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In the fifth episode of Radio A & A, voices from the inside we interview people who are incarcerated or previously incarcerated. In this episode we interviewed Damien Linnane about ethics of solidarity when working along...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture.  In the fourth episode of Radio A & A we interviewed Jill Faulkner about ethics and frameworks when supporting women survivors of violence in heteronormative relationships. Jill is a therapist/activist, consultant, resea...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In the third episode of Radio A & A we interviewed Boe Spearim about frontier war stories and Aboriginal responses to conflict and harm pre-colonisation. Monday 19th July 11pm on 3cr 855am Listen to frontier war stories:...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture.  In the second episode of Radio A & A we interviewed Aunty Lisa, Keith and Iris about the Incarcerated trans and gender diverse community support fund, the prison industrial complex, abolition and solidarity with trans a...

Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture.  In the first episode of Radio A & A we explored different definitions of family/intimate partner violence and what this has meant for us in responding to harm, entitlement thinking and dominator culture, as well as our...