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From indie music resistance to immersive painting and politically urgent cinema, this episode moves through art that refuses to sit still.

We’re joined in-studio by San Dragan, unpacking a bold move away from Spotify and toward a grounded, community-driven music career; one built on live performance, connection, and creative autonomy.

Then, artist Grace Harper takes us inside her Berlin residency and intuitive painting practice, where abstraction, emotion, and flow state collide in a deeply personal visual language shaped by memory, movement, and conversation with the canvas.

We also hear from Nasser Shakour, co-founder of the Palestinian Film Festival, on the power of film to build empathy and humanise stories beyond headlines.

And finally, ASO clarinetist and drifter Dean Newcomb brings two worlds together: classical music and motor racing, in a new concerto that captures adrenaline, risk, and performance across disciplines.

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Post-Fringe, the Arts Garden resets.

In Episode 10, we trace the threads of creativity across generations, forms, and philosophies, moving from Adelaide’s jazz lineage to the radical history of modernist art, and into the inner worlds of sound, voice, and meaning.

🎷 We’re joined in-studio by James Muller and Lyndon Gray of The Exhibits, ahead of their upcoming album launch. They reflect on collaboration, creative renewal, and building the next wave of jazz musicians through the Elder Conservatorium.

🎨 We revisit the legacy of Max Harris and the Angry Penguins movement with Samela Harris, exploring censorship, resistance, and the long arc of artistic defiance that still shapes Adelaide’s cultural identity today.

🎶 Spiritual author Alana Fairchild joins us to talk about music as regulation, voice as power, and how sound and ritual can help us navigate uncertainty in a rapidly shifting world.

🌏 Plus:

• Stephanie Rowe about a global poetry movement redefining publishing norms
• Brand SA's partnership with The Mill supporting South Australian artists
• SALA Festival registrations open for 2026

Mad March may end but the ecosystem doesn’t. What’s left is the deeper work: sustaining creativity, challenging systems, and finding meaning in the noise.

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It’s the final week of Adelaide Fringe and Festival, and Arts Garden brings together a powerful mix of artists exploring endurance, storytelling, and meaning.

🚴 Connor Delves joins us to talk about CADEL: Lungs on Legs: a high-intensity solo performance where he rides live on stage while telling the story of Cadel Evans’ Tour de France victory. We explore the discipline of endurance sport, the challenge of telling a “winner’s story”, and why this is such a uniquely Australian journey.

🎭 Casey Jay Andrews (Punchdrunk) shares insights into immersive theatre and her Designing Immersive Worlds workshop. We dive into how environment, design and storytelling can merge and how her latest work Feast of Words turns performance into a shared sensory experience through food, music and story.

📖 Gemma Parker discusses her memoir The Mother Is Restless and She Doesn’t Know Why blending philosophy, parenting and pandemic life into a deeply reflective exploration of nihilism, creativity and what it means to keep making work when conditions are far from perfect.

💥 Justine Martin closes the episode with an extraordinary story of resilience, from life-changing illness to building five creative businesses. We talk about “bouncing forward”, rejecting inspiration stereotypes, and the power of creativity as both healing and purpose.

Across sport, philosophy, theatre and lived experience, this episode asks:

👉 How do we create meaning when nothing feels certain?
👉 What does it take to keep going and keep creating?

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