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Review: Crowning a New Miss First Nation Queen
Miss First Nation drag pageant shines a spotlight on queer First Nations communities and stories, writes Davey Thompson. Blak Critics… Read more
Review: Exorcising Colonial Demons with Blak Mass
Drawing on data from traditional First Nations Songlines and weaving in the sequence of her own DNA, Naretha Williams’s experimental… Read more
Review: Searching for True Representation in Looking for Tiger Lily
Humour used as a medium for healing as Looking for Tiger Lily puts a queer spin on First Nations storytelling,… Read more
Review: Youthquake Collapses Colonial Narratives
Art has an incredible power to make us feel, and dis rupt‘s Blak youth takeover of Hamer Hall was exhilarating… Read more
Review: Disrupting City Streets with Blak Culture
The citywide Blak-out of Barring Yanabul performances opened Melbourne’s eyes to its First Nations heart, writes Timmah Ball. Blak Critics… Read more
Review: The Sins of the Father
Tales of an Urban Indian is a powerful one-man show on a bus that deals with shame, trauma and hope,… Read more
Review: It’s the End of the World, But the Dancing is Fine
In a collaboration with Taiwanese First Nations creatives, Negotiating Home x Red Earth explored the environmental crisis we’re currently facing,… Read more
Review: A Hop, Skip and a Dance
Jasmin Sheppard danced for women everywhere in her performance on the streets of Melbourne for Barring Yanabul, writes Monique Grbec…. Read more
Review: The Blood Line Continues
Blood Quantum blends the arts of dance, narrative storytelling and projected images to relay the hard truths about the Stolen… Read more
Review: Blood Flows in Night River
Mark Coles Smith’s musical alias Kalaji premiers a multisensory dreamscape in Night River, writes Monique Grbec. Blak Critics is a… Read more
