Melbourne became a ghost town during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pubs and venues closed their doors, leaving many of the city’s artists and creatives without a stage to perform on or an audience to perform for.
Yet over successive lockdowns, it was the creative industries that kept communities strong, as we all adapted to unprecedented circumstances.
In The Stage Goes Dark, four creatives share their struggles and victories during the pandemic and cry out for an overlooked community, calling for a lifeline.
Guests:
Eilish Gilligan
Brenton Harris
Neil Morris (DRMNGNOW)
Virginia Gay
Credits:
Producer: Erin Dick
Executive Producer and sound design: Sarah Mashman
Engineer: Tegan Nichols
Theme composer: Oliver Beard
Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions
Management team: Abe Killian and Sime Knezevic
Made in co-operation with: SYN, Melbourne
This episode was made on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and the muwinina people from Country around nipaluna. These lands were never ceded.
From the Embers Season 2: Phoenix is supported by The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas, The Paul Ramsay Foundation, Monash University’s Fire to Flourish program and The Minderoo Foundation Fire and Flood Resilience Initiative and broadcast across Australia via the Community Radio Network
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