In The Making Podcast
In The Making Podcast
In the Making by Makeshift explores creativity as a prescription for challenging times. Featuring interviews with makers and artists who share their personal stories of how creative practices have helped them through tough times. The conversations are rich, insightful and illuminate the myriad ways that creativity (in all its many forms!) can be a true lifesaver during difficult periods of our liv…Social links:
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Michele Elliot - Textile Artist
Sometimes the benefits of a regular creative practice don’t just come from the making but whom you’re creating it with. Michele Elliot is a textile artist who was trekking in Nepal after a residency in India when she found herself in the middle of the massive 2015 Gorhka Earthquake. Michele returne…
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Annie Werner - Knitter + Sewist
For some people there’s no separation between creativity and life. Their home, their clothes, even the food they eat is a work of art. Annie Werner has built a handmade life, from the straw bale home she shares with her partner and two children and many animals, to the hand sewn and hand knitted cl…
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Josh Heath - Photographer + Painter
How do you get your well-being fix from your creativity if it becomes your job? Joshua Heath studied photography at Art School but as a working photographer the the camera came to represent a tool of the trade rather than a form of artistic expression. After reading the Artists Way, Josh began pain…
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Ernest Bukasa - Soccer Player, Coach + Poet
Sport and creativity aren’t often considered a natural match but when Ernest Bukasa plays soccer it’s like watching an artist on the field. Ernest arrived in Australia from the Democratic Republic of Congo, 11 years ago as a refugee. He played soccer with his brothers on the street and in the local…
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Bec Sandridge - Singer Songwriter
Is it sustainable to pour all your heartbreak into songwriting if you’re a singer songwriter? Bec Sandridge’s Debut album Try and Save Me is danceable, rockin' disco-pop, but where the songs talk honestly about sexuality, mental health, self-care and naturally break-ups. In this episode Bec talks a…
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Drew Fairley - Actor + Playwright
In 2020 we all experienced some sort of cabin fever. But for Drew Fairley - a cabaret performer working on a cruise ship - cabin fever became a scary reality when he got caught up in the chaos of the Covid19 outbreak. The cruise ship, Drew was working on, was ejected out of Australian waters leavin…
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Kirli Saunders - Poet
How do we as Australians reconcile the collective trauma of dispossession and the cultural disconnection of Australia’s First Nations people? For Kirli Saunders, a proud Gunai woman and Award Winning Poet and Author, healing comes from writing. In this episode Kirli talks about reconnecting with he…
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In the Making - Trailer
A new podcast by MakeShift that explores creativity as a prescription for challenging times. Can sewing, knitting, painting, writing or singing be good for us? Even if we're not very good at it? What are the mental health benefits of a creative habit? In The Making talks to artists and makers from …
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