Rebecca Riggs-Bennett is an emerging sound and spoken word artist, electronic music producer, composer, director, and two-time recipient of a Drug Aware YCulture Metro grant for her work in sound design and performance making. We chatted to Rebecca about her two YCulture projects, The Sound of Trees and With Me, We Walk.

Charlotte Otton is a Sydney-raised, Perth-based performer, writer and theatre maker, best known for her award-winning shows Let Me Finish., Feminah, and 30 Day Free Trial (with Andrew Sutherland). We chatted to Charlotte about the development of Let Me Finish., funded through the Drug Aware YCulture Metro program.

Elsewhere/Rebecca is a sound artist, electronic music producer and performance maker based in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. Elsewhere/Rebecca’s debut album With Me, We Walk sponsored by Drug Aware YCulture Metro, recently came out and featured a compilation of tracks and poems written in the past few years. We chatted to the multitalented artist about who she is and what she does, her debut album and the special way she launched it.

Scott McArdle is a Perth-based writer, director, actor and founder of independent theatre company, Second Chance Theatre. We chatted to Scott about his two Drug Aware YCulture Metro funded projects, the developments of both Laika: A Staged Radio Play (2017) and Josephine! (2018).

Albertina Thabisani Ncube is a Zimbabwe-born, WA based creative that specialises in photography and videography. As a woman of colour, Albertina’s work focuses and uplifts people of melanin that was influenced by the lack of representation in Australia. In the lead up to her project ABANTU Exhibition presented by Drug Aware on Saturday 1 August, we chatted to Albertina about Black representation and the recent Black Lives Matter movement, the platform she’s creating towards cross-cultural exchange in ABANTU, suffering from an identity crisis and the importance of support and opportunity for young creatives of colour.