This week Samira is joined by Dr Sam Whiting, Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University and a 2024 Churchill Fellowship recipient, to discuss challenges faced by grassroots music venues in Australia and his travels to the UK and Europe in 2025 as part of his Churchill Fellowship to investigate and learn from the work of the UK Music Venue Trust.

She then has a chat with director and composer Lamine Sonko of 13.12 about Guewel. In collaboration with the National Theatre of Senegal, Guewel explores an ancient African cosmovision, illuminating new perspectives of the world around us.

Samria then talks with Nikki Lam, co-director of Hyphenated Projects, an artist-led network nurturing practice in Asian diasporas focusing on supporting artists who operate with hyphens culturally, socially and geographically.

She is then joined by musician Yona Su who talks about Shrishti, a new collective dedicated to promoting diverse experimental music, embracing improvised, notated, and electronic approaches to music-making, and Shrishti's upcoming event Colonialists Can’t Dance.