Adopcalypse
141 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -Apodcalypse is a genre-bending choose-your-own-adventure podcast set in the year 2050. Hosted by comedian and performer Lou Wall, each episode pits two queer women and non-binary folk up against the climate apocalypse, testing their survival skills with big ethical questions like: help or run? stay or slay? Coke …. Or Pepsi? It’s the end of the world; bring on the dramageddon!
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Stepping in and turning off
November 03, 2020 22:27Switching ‘off’ isn’t as simple as collectively chucking our phones in the nearest river and giving our bosses the finger. For many among us, being ‘on’ is what has kept food on the table, and our kids safe and well across this year. Read this article by Jessamy Gleeson
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMEN!
October 15, 2020 00:18This time last year the QVWC and the Clunes Neighbourhood House co-hosted a celebratory dinner with the women of Clunes. Clunes is on Dja Dja Wurrung Country a couple of hours west of Melbourne Clunes resident, Christy Flaws was responsible for getting us participating in a bit of feather balancing. During the past year she has continued working with kids in Clunes, as well as making her own performance work with her partner Luke and their performing company Asking For Trouble. She als...
HOME TRUTHS: Monica
September 27, 2020 04:25Monica is a 16-year-old student living in Sunshine trying to get through VCE. Home is where she feels comfortable and surrounded by love. She has vivid memories of her childhood home and loves being content in moments of happiness with her friends.
HOME TRUTHS: Xinhui
September 20, 2020 22:14Xinhui is a 20 year old arts student living in Melbourne. Home has at times had no fixed location having lived & travelled around the world from a young age. She’s looking forward to seeing her family again in Shanghai & planning her next adventures post Covid.
HOME TRUTHS: Izzy
September 15, 2020 05:31Izzy is 23 years old and lives in Carlton in Melbourne’s inner north. After growing up in seven different cities around the world, Melbourne is the place where she feels most at home. Izzy loves the city but, most of all, she loves her friends – they’re what really represents home to her.
HOME TRUTHS: Margot
September 07, 2020 22:45Margot is a 25 year old actor, writer and multi-disciplinary artist. She lives with her family in an ex-display home in Dandenong in Melbourne’s suburbs. A spirit lives in the tree in her front yard, and she’s looking forward to a time when she can return to her other homes in the city – theatres, cafes, rehearsal rooms and shops.
HOME TRUTHS: Evangeline
August 24, 2020 04:37Evangeline is a Melbourne-based artist who lives in an apartment with her parents and her blue heeler, Foosher. She’s longing for a time when visits to an art gallery and days at the beach with friends are back on the cards, and maybe a time when she and Foosher can live out of the city and in nature.
HOME TRUTHS: Niamh
August 17, 2020 01:03Niamh is a seventeen year-old School Strike 4 Climate activist living in Dja Dja Wurrung country, Castlemaine. While lockdown has given her time to read and to walk in the bush, she misses the community connection and sense of empowerment provided by her passion – collective protest and political activism.
HOME TRUTHS: Amarachi
August 10, 2020 05:04Amarachi is a Nigerian born actress and spoken word poet. Having lived in Nigeria, New Zealand and now Melbourne, for Amarachi home isn’t one single country or location. Rather, home represents a process of becoming – a place of growth centred around the people she loves.
Rana Hussain: Writer and broadcaster with the Outer Sanctum podcast
July 31, 2020 02:47Rana Hussain is writer, broadcaster with the Outer Sanctum podcast and a diversity and inclusion specialist. She’s also a footy fan who has worked most recently with Richmond on connecting them with their diverse community.
Maddison Connaughton: Editor of The Saturday Paper
June 23, 2020 05:38Maddison Connaughton is the editor of The Saturday Paper, a leading independent weekly newspaper dedicated to narrative journalism. Throughout her career she’s broken major stories, including traveling to the Syrian refugee camps to interview teenagers and young people impacted by the civil war.
HOME TRUTHS: Marianne
June 17, 2020 23:02Marianne is an Alphington local who considers home to be a state of mind, a place that moves with you – from a summer house in The Netherlands to an apartment overlooking the Seine, and even a Catholic boarding school! It’s with you wherever you go and can always been found if you look hard enough.
HOME TRUTHS: Indira
June 08, 2020 23:18Indira, 72, from Melbourne, discusses the challenges of moving to Melbourne 40 years ago, far away from her Indian home. Over the years, however, Indira has discovered that so much of what she thought of as home – Indian music, culture, dance, food, and community – has followed her here.
Announcing Katie Sfetkidis – our new Ambassador!
June 02, 2020 00:55Katie Sfetkidis is a multi-talented contemporary artist and lighting designer. Her art is politically charged and doesn’t simply imitate life but makes it happen, as her run for Lord Mayor of Melbourne reveals. Katie has also recently been appointed Ambassador for the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre.
Announcing Katie Sfetkidis – our new Emissary!
June 02, 2020 00:55Katie Sfetkidis is a multi-talented contemporary artist and lighting designer. Her art is politically charged and doesn’t simply imitate life but makes it happen, as her run for Lord Mayor of Melbourne reveals. Katie has also recently been appointed Ambassador for the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre.
HOME TRUTHS: Lella
May 30, 2020 00:00Lella left the rubble of post-war Italy to a home beside Melbourne’s bubbling Darebin Creek, and discusses what really makes a house a casa.
HOME TRUTHS: Nazli
May 27, 2020 02:09Nazli has travelled from Sri Lanka, to India, to New York and Adelaide, and now calls a Melbourne filled with children and grandchildren home.
HOME TRUTHS: Aunty Zeta
May 21, 2020 00:50Aunty Zeta is a 74 year old Aboriginal elder who is Wurundjeri through her father and Yorta Yorta through her mother; she lives on Wurundjeri land.
Van Badham: Even More Postcards from Coronavirus: May 14, 2020
May 18, 2020 23:02It’s been explained by psychologists that strange dreams are accompanying many people through the uncommon stress of coronavirus lockdown. Even by these standards, the one I had last night where Pierce Brosnan turned up and claimed he was my dad was a doozy. He looks great for his age, by the way. • My diet is slightly improving from a coronavirus peak of half-a-block of Cadbury’s Black Forest a day. This morning, I decided to go luxe with bananas for my yoghurt. Drop a tablespoon of b...
Ally Watson: a vocal champion for change in the traditionally male-dominated tech sector
May 15, 2020 01:03Ally Watson is the Scottish-born, Melbourne based CEO of Code Like a Girl – a social enterprise that empowers and supports girls to enter and flourish in the world of tech.
HOME TRUTHS: Lesley
May 14, 2020 01:49Lesley is a 73-year old Melburnian by way of Canberra and Colombo, who discusses how friendship, a good book (or two) and chillies all make her feel at home.
Annika Kristensen: a leader in Australia’s contemporary art scene
May 07, 2020 23:57Annika Kristensen is a leader in Australia’s contemporary art scene. As the Senior Curator at ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) she works with some of the field’s best and brightest artistic talents.
HOME TRUTHS: Helen
May 06, 2020 01:22Created for a time when we’re all spending much more of it at home, Home Truths is an interview and illustration project that explores the meaning of ‘home’ from the perspective of eight different women over 70.
Home Truths: Zvezdana
April 30, 2020 23:06Created for a time when we’re all spending much more of it at home, Home Truths is an interview and illustration project that explores the meaning of ‘home’ from the perspective of eight different women over 70.
Kate Robinson is the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre’s inaugural Feminist in Residence.
April 30, 2020 06:32Kate Robinson is the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre’s inaugural Feminist in Residence. I’m so delighted to speak with this incredible woman who wears her heart on her brightly coloured sleeve and find out what makes her tick.
Meet Jean and Lou: Creators of Dramageddon
April 23, 2020 04:31Meet Jean and Lou, the creators of Dramageddon
Recipe: Harira soup by Hana Assafiri
April 23, 2020 01:19Many Moroccans will be eating this hearty dish to break their daily fast during Ramadan. Hana Assafiri of Fitzroy North's Moroccan Soup Bar presents her take on the traditional Iftar soup.
Dramageddon
April 21, 2020 22:57Dramageddon is a genre-bending choose-your-own-adventure podcast set in the year 2050. Created by Jean Tong (playwright) and Lou Wall (comedian)
Van Badham's Postcards from Coronavirus, April 3, 2020
April 08, 2020 05:57More Postcards from Coronavirus: April 3, 2020 I’ve been channelling the apocalyptic tenor of the time into bursts of manic prepperism. Since the lockdown started, I’ve made pie-filling, brandy, tea, pickles, pesto and chutney with fruit and vegetables grown in our garden. I’ve also made my own yoghurt. And, today, my own cheese. In the kitchen, on the phone to our neighbour, Bec, I bragged that with the addition of a goat or cow to our backyard, we’d be self-sufficient. Ben was working i...
A Message from Jo Porter QVWC CEO
March 27, 2020 02:23Last weekend I bought the newspapers, the actual paper weekend editions. It was an escape into now-abandoned ritual, established when I had time for a leisurely all-day session, reading every article, moving into or out of the sun as necessary with a cup of tea close by. But the papers last Saturday initiated my transition from head-based concern about others and focus on crisis management into full-body appreciation of massive disruption. Flipping through the the magazine and lifesty...
Van Badham’s Postcards from Coronavirus: March 24, 2020
March 27, 2020 02:23I had a dream last night that I ran into Elizabeth Warren in a large, empty hall. She told me that Joe Biden had asked her to be his VP. She’d done the deal, she said, she had a plan, and everything would be all right. She said this holding my hands in hers. She had thin hands, but they were very strong and very soft. My subconscious has literally no nuance. I wonder about the implications for my artistic career that I’m not conjuring up talking pyramids that shit lizards, or something. •...
Hoda Afshar is an Iranian born, Melbourne-based photographer whose work treads the line between staged image and reality.
March 18, 2020 22:04Hoda Afshar a winner of many awards, including the prestigious Bowness Photography Prize for her 2018 portrait of Kurdish refugee and activist Behrouz Boochani, taken on Manus Island, Hoda turns a lens to the issues of the invisible in our society and gives them shape and form.
Annette Creek working closely with local Nhill communities to foster connections
February 20, 2020 02:31Annette Creek is the Executive Officer of the Nhill Learning Centre. Nhill is a small town in western Victoria’s Wimmera region, halfway between Adelaide and Melbourne. With a population of approximately 2000 people, over the past 10 years Nhill has welcomed over 200 Karen people – around 10% of its total population – and helped them make Nhill their home.
Azmeena Hussain is a lawyer whose life and career have been fuelled by a commitment to social justice
February 04, 2020 00:34Azmeena Hussain is a partner at law firm Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and, as the manager of their Workplace injuries division, defends the rights of workers to feel safe on the job, all day, every day.
Sue Maslin a celluloid legend championing change both on and off screen
January 10, 2020 00:56Sue Maslin is a legend of the Australian film industry. As a producer, she has been at the forefront of feature film and documentary making for over three decades with an incredible track record of putting incredible stories on screen.
Jill Prior leading a revolutionary legal centre for women
December 04, 2019 23:00Jill Prior is the inaugural Principal Legal Officer of the Law and Advocacy Centre for Women, a unique legal practice designed for women who are in, or at risk of entering, the criminal justice system.
Maha Sukkar bringing diversity to the police force
November 29, 2019 00:26Maha Sukkar is the first Australian police officer to wear the hijab. A Sergeant and teacher at the Victorian Police Academy, Maha works between communities and uses the golden thread of multiculturalism to inspire her students.
Apodcalypse
November 22, 2019 01:23 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBApodcalypse is a genre-bending choose-your-own-adventure podcast set in the year 2050. Hosted by comedian and performer Lou Wall, each episode pits two queer women and non-binary folk up against the climate apocalypse, testing their survival skills with big ethical questions like: help or run? stay or slay? Coke …. Or Pepsi? It’s the end of the world; bring on the dramageddon!
Linh Do – a climate change activist changing mindsets, and lightbulbs
October 30, 2019 22:32Linh Do is a Melbourne-based climate change activist who’s worked from the age of 16 to change the way the world thinks about climate change. Currently the Project Lead of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, Linh is a trailblazing communicator who, at just 16, created the ‘Change a Million Lightbulbs’ campaign.
Sue Giles puts children at the centre of art and life
October 09, 2019 22:25I’m so pleased to be speaking with Sue Giles, Artistic Director of Polyglot, a revolutionary theatre company for young people. I’ve seen Polyglot performances in action and, action is the right word to describe it – a beautiful, organised, immersive chaos that sees the audience – children – take the lead in the performance and make it their own.
Sherene Hassan – a conduit between communities who brings people together
September 23, 2019 15:11I’m here to meet with Sherene Hassan, the Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Museum. Sherene has worked in leadership roles in the Islamic community and is a force for change in creating and facilitating interfaith dialogue.