Listening as Practice. Sound as Resistance. An experiment in learning and creating together.
Race Matters is excited to bring you Listening Through: an experimental sound syllabus. This program was created to foreground the politics of sound and listening, and reclaim them as activist practices. Our purpose is to foster an anti-racist creative programme that’s not just reactive, but also abstract, imaginative and challenging. We’ll listen through seven concepts that hold promise for praxis: place, frequency, noise, silence, glitch, breath and rage.
Listening Through is a program for listening and radio-making practice. Open to people working with sound around the continent of australia, it will equip participants with critical and practical skills in radio (and adjacent fields) – specifically grounded in an anti-colonial and anti-racist standpoint.
We're inviting four participants to learn and create with us, alognside attending the upcoming public program.
The program runs each week from late February to April 2026. Guest artists will join us for a public dialogue, followed by a closed working session where enrolled participants can unpack and respond to new ideas. Participants of the lab will each receive a $500 honorarium.
Applications close 19th February. Details and application here.
The public programs will be free, online and open to all and will feature Hayden Ryan, Lulu Quintanilla, Megan Cope, Poppy De Souza, amby downs & Nū. Follow Race Matters in instagram / @race_matters to learn more.
Co-designers and co-dreamers Shareeka Helaluddin, Gabi Briggs and Jon Tjhia,
Program coordinator Alicia Zhao
Digital Archiving Janey Li
Design Rekha Dhanaram
Access co-creation Access Lab & Library
Listening Through made possible by Creative Australia
Words by Shareeka Helaluddin