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We, The City is recorded on Gadigal land. Jerboa Productions acknowledges the traditional owners past, present, and emerging. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
We, The City
Conversations with the artists who call Sydney home.
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Episodes
Monday Jun 06, 2022
Monday Jun 06, 2022
We, The City introduces you to the artists who call Sydney home. Join documentary filmmaker Blue Lucine as she sits down in conversation with the city’s drag queens, painters, sculptors, musicians, poets, filmmakers, and performers. Each week, We, The City brings you an in-depth interview with the artists who enrich this city, discussing their craft, origins and what drives their passion to create.
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
For the first episode of We, The City, you’ll meet performance artist Emma Maye Gibson, inventor of Betty Grumble, stage critter, an action of spirituality and member of sex clown history, who’s become a fixture of the Sydney cultural scene.
Blue and Emma Maye discuss love, philosophy, methodology, the power of community and staying creative in a pandemic.
https://www.instagram.com/bettygrumble/?hl=en
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We, The City is a Jerboa production hosted by Blue Lucine. The City of Sydney is our principal partner and we thank the creative grants program. This episode was produced by Blue Lucine and Tegan Nicholls with original music by Matt Cornell. We, The City is recorded on Gadigal land. Sovereignty was never ceded.
https://wethecity.podbean.com/
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
This week on We, the City Blue speaks with artist Blak Douglas. A proud Dhungatti man, Blak Douglas is a contemporary artist who works across painting, installation and sculpture. He won the converted Archibald prize in 2022 with his portrait of Karla Dickens, which was the first time an Aboriginal woman was the subject of a winning portrait. His work explores political and social injustice through bright colours, iconic figures and witty sardonic titles. It has captivated audiences around the world for decades. Blak talks about pushing the boundaries in the art world and the lessons he’s learned along the way.
https://blakdouglas.com.au/
Access the transcript here
We, The City is a Jerboa production hosted by Blue Lucine. The City of Sydney is our principal partner and we thank the creative grants program. This episode was produced by Blue Lucine and Tegan Nicholls with original music by Matt Cornell. We, The City is recorded on Gadigal land. Sovereignty was never ceded.
https://wethecity.podbean.com/
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
This week on We, the City Blue speaks with Larissa Behrenht. Larissa has recently published her third novel, ‘After Story’ and is not only a writer, but also a filmmaker, distinguished professor and a lawyer. Larissa and Blue discuss the synergy between her creative and legal work, how they inspire and inform one another, and why it isn’t necessary to follow a single path.
Access the transcript here:
https://www.larissabehrendt.com.au/
https://www.uqp.com.au/books/after-story
https://miff.com.au/program/film/araatika-rise-up
We, The City is a Jerboa production hosted by Blue Lucine. The City of Sydney is our principal partner and we thank the creative grants program. This episode was produced by Blue Lucine and Tegan Nicholls with original music by Matt Cornell. We, The City is recorded on Gadigal land. Sovereignty was never ceded.
wethecity.podbean.com/
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
This week on We, The City Blue catches up with Araz Ahmed, a poet, musician and community worker. A Canadian native now living in Sydney, Araz shares some of their brand new music, and reflects on gentle masculinity, discovering their new voice, and how complicated dads can be. You can hear more of Araz music at https://soundcloud.com/araz-ahmed-539721773
Access the transcript here
We, The City is a Jerboa production hosted by Blue Lucine. The City of Sydney is our principal partner and we thank the creative grants program. This episode was produced by Blue Lucine and Tegan Nicholls with original music by Matt Cornell. We, The City is recorded on Gadigal land. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Live music recording by Josh Dowton
https://wethecity.podbean.com/
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
This week on We, The City Blue speaks with Toby Zoates. Toby is a queer punk artist who works in the mediums of painting, animation, film, comics, writing and cartooning. Toby is an original 78’er, he was part of the group of protestors who formed the first Mardi Gras march in 1978 in Sydney. Toby and I discuss his most recent novel, Punk Outsider, which chronicles how Sydney has changed from the late 70s til now.
Access the transcript here
Purchase a copy of Toby’s latest book, Punk Outsider by emailing him tobyzoates@hotmail.com
www.amazon.com/author/tobyzoates
https://www.instagram.com/tobyzoates/?hl=en
We, The City is a Jerboa production hosted by Blue Lucine. The City of Sydney is our principal partner and we thank the creative grants program. This episode was produced by Blue Lucine and Tegan Nicholls with original music by Matt Cornell. We, The City is recorded on Gadigal land. Sovereignty was never ceded.
https://wethecity.podbean.com/
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
This week on We, The City, Blue speaks with Henrietta Baird, an artist who works across dance, performance and theatre. She currently works at the Botanical Gardens as an Aboriginal Education Officer. Blue and Henrietta discuss the importance of culture in her practice, creating art while raising a family, and why we need to find the funny side of a sad situation.
Access the transcript here
This episode contains adult themes
Does Henrietta have a website/social media
We, The City is a Jerboa production hosted by Blue Lucine. The City of Sydney is our principal partner and we thank the creative grants program. This episode was produced by Blue Lucine and Tegan Nicholls with original music by Matt Cornell. We, The City is recorded on Gadigal land. Sovereignty was never ceded.
https://wethecity.podbean.com/
What's the show about?
We, The City introduces you to the artists who call Sydney home. Join documentary filmmaker Blue Lucine as she sits down in conversation with the city’s drag queens, painters, sculptors, musicians, poets, filmmakers, and performers. Each week, We, The City brings you an in-depth interview with the artists who enrich this city, discussing their craft, origins and what drives their passion to create.
Our host Blue Lucine
Documentary filmmaker, writer, and all round trouble maker, Blue brings you conversations with artists she admires. Born and raised in Sydney, Blue wanted to share stories behind the artists that made the beautiful, chaotic, strange, and interesting place she calls home.
Blue's debut feature documentary 'The Eviction' screened at film festivals locally and internationally and was broadcast on SBS in 2020. She is a graduate of the Australian Film TV & Radio School (AFTRS) and a PhD candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has a BA Comms from Charles Sturt University, a Masters from UTS, and spent time in State University of New York in film directing. Her films have broadcast on the ABC, Virgin Airlines and Sbs.
Our audio producer Tegan Nicholls
As a sound designer and composer, Tegan has a long history of collaborating within Sydney's arts and performance scene, working with companies such as Bell Shakespeare, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, The Hayes, Redline Productions, Ensemble Theatre, Q Theatre, Sport for Jove, as well as many thriving independent companies.
Tegan doesn't like being bored and explores sound in as many ways as she can, including creating radio and podcast content with the ABC’s Radio National, ABC Sport, Audiocraft, CBAA, FBi Radio’s All The Best and more.
Tegan enjoys sharing the craft of creative audio production through education, having taught with NIDA, AFTRS and UWS. She is currently an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney.
Our composer Matt Cornell
M@ is an award winning choreographer and composer, working to ask better questions by collaborating with inspiring artists, in diverse contexts, across UTC 8:00 ,9:00 and 10:00. Matt’s career interrogates how we embody systems – social, cultural, political, or technological – and in turn how these systems embody us by forming communities and informing identities.
He is working to remember our future through dancing, performance, sound composition, text, discussion, and curation, in varying venues including theatres, galleries, public spaces, online and print. Across these radically different contexts is the core effort of conjuring space! events! experiences! in which to gather, to share something that just might innervate the stories we tell ourselves. That we may get better at living together.
M@ also operates as the Digital Artist-Curator at Critical Path centre for choreographic research, is the founder of Wombat Radio podcast, and the curator for “How Did It Come to This?” zine at Darwin Community Arts.
He is a proud member of Style Impressions Krew
He is a founding member of The Pump
He releases music under the stage name @TheMattmosphere