About the Movements & Sounds Podcast

Movements & Sounds is a podcast project celebrating First Nations musical, creative, and everyday life endeavours. Initiated by Charlotte Schuitenmaker, a non-Indigenous PhD researcher focussing on First Nations music and social movements in Sydney, the project aims to facilitate a more transparent way of conducting research interviews, making the recordings accessible and in reach to those who have participated in the project, and their direct communities.  

It also facilitates a dialogue cross-globally and cross-culturally, aiming to create awareness of First Nations political movements, but also to highlight every contributor's unique experience while learning about Indigenous creatives' rich cultural history, full of knowledge and talent.  

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This project is not-for-profit. It received a SOAS Student Enterprise Start-Up Fund. A small portion of this fund is used for this website and a microphone. Another small portion went to the two soundwalks to cover the participants' time for co-creating the creative projects. The rest has been donated to Seed, an Indigenous-led youth organisation taking action for climate justice.