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If you were lucky enough to stand in the audience at The Espy’s famed Gershwin Room in Melbourne’s St Kilda to watch Archie Roach play songs from  Koorie 1988 and yarn about his days living in the beachside suburb, then you know you witnessed a once-in-a-lifetime, historic performance. Back in the lead-up to the 1988 bicentennial, Archie was angry. Australia was gearing up to celebrate the bicentennial of 200-years of violence perpetrated against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Living in a flat behind St Kilda’s famed Village Belle Hotel, Archie was recovering from gi...

Posted by Culture Is Life | Tuesday 6 October 2020, 05:45 PM (AEDT) Archie Roach AM, music legend and Stolen Generations survivor, is one of Australia’s most powerful songwriters and storytellers. His deeply personal song stories and more recently his books, Tell Me Why and Took the Children Away, shed light on the devastating government policies that still impact thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families. The Archie Roach Stolen Generations resources were created during COVID-19 by Culture Is Life, in collaboration with the Archie Roach Foundation, to ...

Joined by special guest Paul Kelly, Emma Donovan delivered a performance filled with wisdom and soul 1 / 4 Words by Alex Watts Emma Donovan appeared at Heide Museum of Modern Art’s Summer Festival alongside her band, The Putbacks. There is something very communal about Heide Museum of Modern Art. Perhaps it’s the sense of space lent by the expansive gardens surrounding the buildings, full of native plants and gnarled eucalypts. Or maybe it is to do with the original farmhouse, in which John and Sunday Reed lived, loved and held court for their artistic friends, w...

Interview The Glasshouse: Archie Roach On Life, Music And Healing Gunditjmara and Bundjalung singer-songwriter and activist Uncle Archie Roach joins Beth AQ for her first show of 2021. For Archie, music has been “part of my life and part of my healing”. His memoir Tell Me Why: The Story Of My Life And My Music – which recently won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing – explores his experience of being a Stolen child, his health struggles and his music career. Archie explains the process of writing a book was “a bit daunting” as there aren't instruments ...