Annie Brockenhuus-Schack is an emerging creative producer and curator of Filipina and European heritage working on unceded Gadigal land. Working across multiple art forms, her practice engages with themes surrounding identity development and postcolonial models of creativity and collaboration.

We talk about:

1. Annie's experience in theatre, acting and producing creative works

2. Filipinx creation stories and the difficulties of interpreting from a modern context

3. Filipinx superstitions with her mum

Rizcel Gagawanan is a Filipina-Australian actor, writer, and producer living and working on unceded Gadigal land. After leaving her accounting job, her family, and her home on unceded Turrbal land, Rizcel spent the past few years performing on both stage and screen. Her most notable work includes Carpark Clubbing, Duckpond, Undertaking, and Blood Wedding.

We talk about:

1. Rizcel’s move into acting from being an accountant at a Big 4 firm

2. The hard wins of Filipinx representation in Australian screen

3. Filipinx dance and Saturday Filipinx school in Brisbane

4. The importance of shared culture and traditions through the body

Chanel Biala is a Filipina videographer and aspiring filmmaker from Western Sydney. She is passionate about film and working with the Western Sydney community.

We talk about:

1. Chanel making films in highschool

2. Chanel's top picks for films her experiences in film school

3. We talk about indie Filipino films, Asian horror films, and our want for more Filipinx people in film and on screen.

Matcho Cassidy is a conceptual writer and performance poet, who explores themes that are heart wrenching, brain stimulating and thought provoking; such as Identity, Diaspora, Passion, Reincarnation, Death, Love and Romance.

We talk about:

1. Tito Matcho talks about how he fell into poetry

2. We talk about our travels into the Kalinga region

3. Getting tattoos, tattoo history and the afterlife

Miranda Aguilar is a queer Filipinx writer, creative producer and community arts worker. Their work includes being a lead writer and showrunner of Las Rosas, a Western Sydney telenovela webseries, producing Prone to the Drone, which premiered at last year's Sydney Film Fest, and supporting young, diverse story-tellers through the community arts and media organisation CuriousWorks.

We talk about:

1. Miranda talks about Let Me Know When you Get Home – a queer Filipinx coming of age story

2. Writing styles they like – writing for screen, plays, and games

3. We talk about how to sustain our writing practice – how to work through writers block

4. How beauty pageants are related to second wave feminism

5. The muddiness of empowerment and feminism

Eunice Andrada is a Filipina poet, educator and organizer living on unceded Gadigal Land. Her debut poetry collection "Flood Damages" (2018) won the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Dame Mary Gilmore Award.

We talked about:

1. Eunice’s work as a poet, activist and event organiser

2. Finding connection through virtual spaces

3. Why organisations like The Digital Sala can help us feel more connected

4. Why art and activism go hand-in-hand

5. How to have a difficult conversation with your parents about politics

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