Leah Manaema Avene is a Tuvaluan-Irish mother, researcher, musician, therapist, broadcaster and artist.

Theresa ‘Tea’ Angela is a Filipino-Australian artist, storyteller and wellbeing facilitator and the communications manager at MAV.

Lauren Mullings is an Afro-Caribbean artist, writer and the CEO of MAV.

We interviewed Leah, Tea and Lauren, as part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Block Partee.

We chat about:

Everything being relationships
Cultural safety
How productivity can destroy the creative process
The arts ecology
Stretching and settling time
Retracing the history of MAV
Land-based practice
Unpacking the violence of assimilation
Closing your voice
The larger than life characters that make up our lives
Art threading all of life together
Having the space to speak our truths

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guests: Leah Manaema Avene, Theresa Angela and Lauren Mullings

Music by: The Green Twins

Edited by: Kate Robinson

Special thanks: Multicultural Arts Victoria, City of Darebin, Creative Victoria, Creative Australia, Melbourne Polytechnic, Victoria Government and VicHealth’s Future Reset Program.

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations.

You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com

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