# Ziggy Ramo

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Green Colonialism

Shae discusses green colonialism, what it is, how we see it in climate activism and the overall nuances that come with considering solutions to confront climate change and better ourselves as activists. To get a better understanding of this, Shae interviews Tiahni Adamson from Bush Heritage Austral…

Words & Music 2025, featuring William Crighton, Melody Pool and more

From the page to the stage, Words & Music is a festival project in which songwriters are invited by Newcastle curator Nick Milligan to write and perform an original work inspired by the written word. Whether it be a novel, poem, short story or something unexpected, pre-existing prose is channelled …

Breaking Techniques - Episode April 5, 2026

Playlist: Fortunato, featuring Sean One - The Grime (Sean One Remix) Saba & No ID, featuring BJ The Chicago Kid, Eryn Allen Kane - Every Painting Has a Price Shad, featuring TLO - Islands Lex Leosis - Minor Setback Kay Young, featuring Monaldin - Virtual Lady Paradox, featuring Pat D - I Wanna Fe…

Live from the Whitsundays Songwriter Festival: Zipporah Corser-Anu

At the 2025 Whitsundays Songwriter Festival, songwriter and artist Zipporah Corser-Anu joins Francesca for a conversation about writing from instinct, blending dance and voice, and how culture and lived experience shape the songs we create. About Zipporah: Fresh off the release of her new music bu…

Raven Chacon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Voiceless Mass and Cam Butler takes on the grand organ

Voiceless Mass, by Raven Chacon, can be performed in 'any space of worship with high ceilings and pipe organ' and plays with the amplifying power of a church's architecture, while commenting on the silencing of voices and languages that churches have been active in throughout their history. It won …

The mystery and music of Connie Converse

American Singer-songwriter Connie Converse would be hard enough to pigeonhole had she not disappeared without a trace in 1974. She wrote folk songs, and art songs, and the story of her life and disappearance is a fascinating one. It's the subject of a biography called To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The L…

Middle of the Air: The Music Show at Sydney Writers' Festival

Ziggy Ramo, Leah Senior, and Kate Fagan join Andy to talk about the art of turning poetry into song. Recorded live at the 2026 Sydney Writers' Festival, in partnership with Red Room Poetry. Songs performed live: Ziggy Ramo: Little Things (after Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly) Leah Senior: The Arbour (…

William Basinski hosts a sleepover, Will Swenson plays Neil Diamond, and vale Glen Hansard

American composer William Basinski's very long and much celebrated avant-garde electronic work The Disintegration Loops was born from the gradual decay of magnetic tape. It was created over a month in August and September 2001, during which time Basinski witnessed the collapse of the World Trade Ce…

Thursday Breakfast: Ziggy Ramo Interview

We’re joined by Ziggy Ramo — rapper, author, producer, storyteller and 2026 Poetry Month Ambassador — for a powerful conversation about the importance of words, poetry and storytelling. Ziggy chats with Joel and Mama Mish about using creativity to challenge conversations around identity, racism and…

(66). Thursday Breakfast: Wake up and roll into Thursday with Joel and Mama Mish

Wake up and roll into your Thursday with Joel & Mama Mish, along with sassy Liam for JOY Breakfast – a funny, cheeky, and delightfully unpredictable morning show that mixes news, nostalgia, and nonsense with a lot of laughs. This week on JOY Breakfast with Joel and Mama Mish, the fabulous David Be…