Movements & Sounds - Cianna Walker

Published: May 16, 2022, 3:01 p.m.

Cianna Walker is a Yuin and Gumbaynggirr musician living in Sydney. She is at the start of her music career as a singer and she studies Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of music. Cianna comes from a long line of Indigenous activists and cultural educators. We talked about her experiences of starting her university endeavour, awkward land acknowledgements, Indigenous languages, and, turns out, Cianna is a lover of movies! Stay tuned until the end to listen to her cover of the song Ngarra Burra Ferra.\n\nPlease be advised that this podcast contains references to deceased persons.\n\nShow script:\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSgKFwP8M7tSFIDJRNK9tlQABdlyFP8_sgorAKxKtSRUjf98doLwYvzsLXMHeWDdQvpLFuyibLL8e8D/pub\n\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ciannawalker/\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxOluf07qmBDEQq0h3Zwerw\n\nLinks for more information:\n\u2013 About the movie The Drover\u2019s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11162490/ \n\u2013 \u201cB\u0201pa\u201d by Gurrumul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9N8UXQbO34 \n\u2013 About the movie The Sapphires: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673697/ \n\u2013 The Dhurga Dictionary: https://aiatsis.gov.au/publication/35883 \n\u2013 About The Freedom Rides in Australia: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2015/02/18/explainer-what-was-australias-freedom-ride#:~:text=A%20group%20of%20students%20from,the%20experience%20of%20Aboriginal%20Australians. \n\u2013 About SeedMob: https://www.seedmob.org.au/