9 episodes
In The Making Podcast Make Shift
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- Health & Fitness
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 lives.
MakeShift - a support and education agency connecting creativity and mental health for social change.
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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 returned safely to Australia but suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She began to re-evaluate her entire artistic practice and found comfort not only in those repetitive Kantha stitches, but in reconnecting with her local community, teaching workshops and leading a sewing circle at Tender Funerals.
Makeshift.org.au
Guest: Michele Elliot - micheleelliot.com
Executive Producers: Caitlin Marshall & Lizzie Rose - makeshift.org.au
Producer: Jennifer Macey - jennifermacey.com
Theme Song: Elana Stone - elanastoneband.com.au
Extra Music: Smith and the Devil
Sound Engineer: Chris Hancock - chrishancock.network
Cover Art: Kiara Mucci - kiaramucci.com
This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation and supported by a small cultural grant from Wollongong Council.
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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 clothes she wears. The one time Annie couldn’t knit or crochet was while receiving chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. In this episode we talk about living with cancer, about what she packed in the car when her house was threatened by the Black Summer bushfires - her knitting - and how she built her colourful, handmade life.
Makeshift.org.au
Guest: Annie Werner - Instagram @doctorannieautumn
Executive Producers: Caitlin Marshall & Lizzie Rose - makeshift.org.au
Producer: Jennifer Macey - jennifermacey.com
Theme Song: Elana Stone - elanastoneband.com.au
Extra Music: Smith and the Devil
Sound Engineer: Chris Hancock - chrishancock.network
Cover Art: Kiara Mucci - kiaramucci.com
This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation and supported by a small cultural grant from Wollongong Council.
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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 painting using Posca pens on A5 coloured sheets of card. And then, at the age of 38, Josh suddenly had a stroke - and everything he knew about life, work and creativity turned upside down.
Makeshift.org.au
Guest: Josh Heath - joshuaheath.net Instagram @joshua.heath
Executive Producers: Caitlin Marshall & Lizzie Rose - makeshift.org.au
Producer: Jennifer Macey - jennifermacey.com
Theme Song: Elana Stone - elanastoneband.com.au
Extra Music: Dreamgood
Post-Production Engineer: Chris Hancock - chrishancock.network
Cover Art: Kiara Mucci - kiaramucci.com
This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation and supported by a small cultural grant from Wollongong Council.
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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 park until he was introduced to Port Kembla Football club. Ernest was on track to playing for Sydney FC. But a rare neuromuscular disease put a sudden stop to his dreams. Soon after, Ernest discovered poetry and found the floodgates opened to his feelings.
Makeshift.org.au
Guest: Ernest Bukasa
Executive Producers: Caitlin Marshall & Lizzie Rose - makeshift.org.au
Producer: Jennifer Macey - jennifermacey.com
Theme Song: Elana Stone - elanastoneband.com.au
Extra Music: Blue Dot Sessions & Smith and the Devil - smithydevily@gmail.com
Post-Production sound engineering: Chris Hancock - chrishancock.network
Cover Art: Kiara Mucci - kiaramucci.com
This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation and supported by a small cultural grant from Wollongong Council.
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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 about being vulnerable in her songwriting and says that she’s learnt it’s not always sustainable to wear your heart on your album’s sleeve.
Makeshift.org.au
Guest: Bec Sandridge - becsandridge.com
Executive Producers: Caitlin Marshall & Lizzie Rose - makeshift.org.a
Producer: Jennifer Macey - jennifermacey.com
Theme Song: Elana Stone - elanastoneband.com.au
Post-production sound: Chris Hancock - chrishancock.network
Cover Art: Kiara Mucci - kiaramucci.com
This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation and supported by a small cultural grant from Wollongong Council.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
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 leaving Drew and 2 other Australians in a diplomatic limbo. Literally stranded on the high seas. To keep boredom and fear at bay, Drew turned to his craft and using props found in his cabin he made hilarious and sometimes poignant video skits for Instagram.
Makeshift.org.au
Guest: Drew Fairley - Instagram @droozah
Executive Producers: Caitlin Marshall & Lizzie Rose - makeshift.org.au
Producer: Jennifer Macey - jennifermacey.com
Theme Song: Elana Stone - elanastoneband.com.au
Sound Engineer: Chris Hancock - chrishancock.network
Cover Art: Kiara Mucci - kiaramucci.com
This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation and supported by a small cultural grant from Wollongong Council.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.