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| Helen Anu
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Ina Meriba Wakai - "This Is Our Voice".
Torres Strait Islander Program
Sunday's from 2 - 4pm
'Blackchat' - Music Reviewer.
Monthly Friday's 'Arts & Culture', with Host Paulette Whitton.
1. NAME: Helen Anu
2. PROGRAM: Ina Meriba Wakai
In the languages from the Eastern Region of the the Torres Strait called Meriam Mir, and the Western language Kala Lagaw Ya, the Program translates to mean "This is Our Voice".
3. CULTURAL BACKGROUND/LANGUAGE: Top Western Region of the Torres Strait Islands. (Saibai Island).
Clan: Samu, Zei Gub (Cassowory & the South Wind) & Sui-Baidham Sager Gub (Black-winged Stilt/Shark & the East Wind) Clans of Saibai Island.
4. PLACE OF BIRTH: Townsville, QLD (Go Cowboys!!!!)....
5. STAR SIGN: Scorpio (Yep....I know, I'm Deadly)....
6. HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED IN SYDNEY: 17yrs & 2 in Newcastle
7. MOST REQUESTED SONG ON YOUR PROGRAM: Baba Waiar (Live-Intimate & Deadly version).
8. MOST REQUESTED ARTIST ON YOUR PROGRAM: Cygnet Repu
9. FAVOURITE ARTFORM: Music, Dance, Visual Arts
10. FAVOURITE SPORT: Is marbles ??
11. R U A BLOCKBUSTER OR A DOCO PERSON?: Doco
12. NAME ONE DEFINING MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE SO FAR: Insight into life & death. Giving birth, and being an accidental midwife to a few ladies, and holding someone’s hand when they took their last breath in life.
13. WHO/WHAT INSPIRES YOU: Children & Elders
14. FAVE QUOTE: “It's a matter of opinion if you have a good life” - Bart Willoughby.
15. FAVE FOOD: Korean…YES, kIM cHI rocks!!
16. FAVE CONCERT YOU’VE BEEN TO: Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy...
17. HOLIDAY DESTINATION: Palau
18. WHAT’S SOMETHING PEOPLE DON’T GENERALLY KNOW ABOUT YOU? Umm, I collect frogs... yes u heard!!
19. HOBBIES/PAST-TIMES: Op-shopping, collectables, walking, singing, traditional dancing, composing songs,
20. 5 PEOPLE YOU’D INVITE FOR DINNER (Dead or Alive): my Grandfather-late Nadi Anu (Composer & Seaman), late Uncle Ephraim Bani (Cultural Historian & Linguist), Spike Lee (Film maker), Cleopatra, Robert Nester Marley, Aunty Cindy Drummond (the best yarner), just 2 spice it up....
21. MESSAGE FOR THE OLD & YOUNG: BLACK DON'T CRACK!!! |
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