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WELA recommends: Allara (@allara___ ), Yorta Yorta storyteller, composer, director, producer, musician and soundscape designer⁠ ⁠ Allara's music is an act of resistance, a reclamation, and a homecoming. Rooted in ancient oral traditions and carried through double bass, looping and hard-hitting spoken word, her sound traces the enduring strength of Yorta Yorta culture.⁠ ⁠ Through song, soundscape and storytelling, Allara works to return language to body and to Country. To keep culture as a living, breathing practice. Her collaboration with Aunty Dr Lou Bennett AM in Yorta Yorta language rematriation through song, is an expression of this, music as vessel for what colonisation tried to silence.⁠ ⁠ Her work speaks to land, to kinship, to sovereignty. To the understanding that caring for Country and fighting for its return are not separate from art. They are the same act. ⁠ ⁠ Allara is a fierce advocate for Land Back, for climate justice, and for the self-determination of First Nations communities. She sings of murnong farms in Preston (Naarm) rentals. About displacement, food sovereignty, what it means to practice culture on stolen, unceded land and the more than 200 years of colonial structures that her work, in every field, is committed to collapsing.⁠ ⁠ This is music rooted in the knowledge that culture was never lost. It was held and it is still being sung.⁠ ⁠ Learn more about Allara at the link in bio. Photo credit: @tangerinecreative

Performing tomorrow night 6pm at @peninsulahotsprings with my friend MXMars, simply book to bath 🧖‍♀️… We are co-creating a 60 min set, with a mix of both of our original music, plus some brand new arrangements we have been putting together! Reposted #peninsulahotsprings #booktobath #ampitheatrestage

Beyond stoked 😭✊🏽❤️ - @yirramboi YIRRAMBOI Festival 2027 CommissionsGet @reshare_app • @yirramboi YIRRAMBOI Festival 2027 Commissions GANBINAN! — Written entirely in Yorta Yorta, GANBINAN! is a new album celebrating language reclamation, renewal and cultural resilience. Co-written and composed by Allara and Dr Lou Bennett AM, in partnership with Binung Boorigan, the project fuses contemporary music-making with deep cultural practice, positioning song as both pedagogy and activism. One of four new works commissioned for YIRRAMBOI Festival in May 2027. + + Video by Joshua Scott @the.cwolf Editing by Sapphic Flicks @sapphic_flicks Creative Direction by Sherene Stewart

Looking forward to a steamy time at @peninsulahotsprings as artist in residence next week, I can't wait! I'll be performing with my dear friend MxMars on Saturday 2nd May at 6pm, if you want to come along, grab a regular pass to the hot-springs 🫶🏽, book via link in bio ❤️ 📸 - @phoebe__elsworth

GANBINAN! — Written entirely in Yorta Yorta, GANBINAN! is a new album celebrating language reclamation, renewal and cultural resilience. Co-written and composed by Allara and Dr Lou Bennett AM, in partnership with Binung Boorigan, the project fuses contemporary music-making with deep cultural practice, positioning song as both pedagogy and activism. One of four new works commissioned for YIRRAMBOI 2027. Now in its sixth iteration, the YIRRAMBOI Commissions Program sits at the heart of the festival, laying the foundation for the broader program and offering an early glimpse of what’s to come. + + Images by Joshua Scott @the.cwolf Creative Direction by Sherene Stewart Read the full announcement via the link in bio.

Resistance @allara___ 🔴⚫️🟡 Allara is a Yorta Yorta artist, songwoman, bassist, producer and sound-designer performing beautiful amplified songs, stories and film within the @whitebaypowerstation proving an immersive sound scape into her journey Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following photos may contain images of deceased persons. 🎙️ @allara___ 🔴⚫️🟡 @liquid_architecture @whitebaypowerstation 📸 @let.the.beat.mm.drop #allara #liquidarchitecture #🔴⚫️🟡 #gigphotography

Get your tickets now to this weeks Art After Dark 🖼️ 🌒 🎶 The Art After Dark program will transform White Bay Power Station on Friday evenings with music, art and food. Curated by Liquid Architecture and featuring Gomeroi guitarist Liam Keenan and Yorta Yorta double bassist and composer Allara on 3 April.

Fundraiser garage sale for Gaza! Saturday 4th of April, 10am-4pm - mark your calendar 🗓️ We’ll have clothes, bric-a-brac, art, and baked goods 🙂‍↕️🧁 See you at queens parade in Fawkner just near the Merri 🌿 If you’ve got stuff to sell too, please join. All proceeds will go to two families in Gaza, Yarra and Abdullahs family 🇵🇸

Introducing Allara! 🔥🔥🔥 Allara is a staunch Yorta Yorta artist, songwoman, bassist, producer and sound designer. Living on Wurundjeri, Woi-wurrung Country, her work is grounded in healing, self-determination, Blak joy and the resurgence of Native knowledge. Through her music and creative practice, Allara plants seeds of resistance while uplifting culture, community and story. We are thrilled to have Allara joining The Seed Fund Management Workshop Program @allara___ 🎶🌱 📸 Grace Auld @graceauldphotography #theseedfund2026 #seedsessions #futuremakersworkshop #theseedfundau #ausmusic independentmusician theseedfund seedfundmanagementworkshop australianmusic @creatensw @soundnsw

Proud to have curated this iteration of compost : compose last week in Naarm, a stunning sold-out show at Next Wave. Big thanks to Allara, mo chamas and Ysk for sharing beauty and power on stage, and responding to the themes of this project so thoughtfully. Thanks to Elyse, the team at Next Wave and stage technician Connor, for your support bringing our collective vision together. Gratitude to our community and audience for your attention and deep listening. Photo Credits: Darren Gill

We have officially sold out tonight’s event! Thank you everyone who bought a ticket to tonight’s live performance featuring @allara___ @mohamedchamas_ @ysklightspeedchamber We look forward to sharing their magic with you. Congratulations to all the artists involved. See you at @next_wave 7pm doors 7:30pm performance starts don’t be late!

Reshare - @next_wave There's just one week until 'compost : compose' comes to Next Wave! Join us for a live performance weaving music, poetry and movement on Wed 18 Feb. 'compost : compose' is an arts project by Rasha Tayeh, a transdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, researcher, herbalist and founding director of @beiteshai Teahouse. Her practice is land-based, focusing on telling stories about people’s relationships in community & ecology. With over 20 years’ experience as an exhibiting artist in Australia and abroad, and through her pop-up teahouse since 2017, Rasha has curated and hosted a range of art exhibitions, workshops, community events, live gigs and listening sessions, tea ceremonies and poetry nights. How we might compost old structures, tend to grief, and decompose inherited ways of thinking, doing, and being, to make space for composing new imaginaries — rooted in care, repair, and collective liberation? FEATURING: Mohamed Chamas @mohamedchamas_ is a poet and new media artist who re-enchants worlds between heresy and miracle, exploring language, cyberspace, gamification, the military-entertainment complex, occult studies and spirituality. Allara @allara___ is a staunch Yorta Yorta artist, songwoman, bassist, producer and sound-designer. Living on Wurundjeri, Woi-Wurrung Country, her work is driven by healing, self-determination and the resilience of yenbana-l and woka-n mulana. Ysk @ysklightspeedchamber , born Yusuke Akai in 1983 in Tokyo, is a guitarist, drummer, modular synthesist, composer, bandleader and educator. In partnership with @blindside_ari and @beiteshai . Link in bio for tickets. ___ Image description: This image has text and a picture. The picture shows the three artists, mohamed reading poetry, Allara playing a double base and Ysk playing guitar in a room filled with pale light. The text reads 'compost : compose' and lists the artists. There is also the Next Wave, Blindside and Beit e'Shai logos.