Have you ever come across a Creative Director working at a Financial Services company? Neither did I until meeting Joel Connolly at Blackbird Ventures (Joel also heads up their philanthropic arm, Blackbird Foundation). We discuss the importance of creativity in solving ambitious problems.

From film festivals, student cultural exchanges, and all the way to free trade agreements, this conversation unpacks all things happening between Indonesia and Australia. Our guests Clarice and Ghian are the experts when it comes to this.

We delve deep into talking about decolonisation in development and climate action, queerness in Indonesia, and poetry as a process of self-healing, revealing, and as a way to hold space for others as well. This conversation ends with Doni reading a poem he had written during lockdown titled ‘No, The Nature Never Have Any Emotions’.

We caught up with Indonesian Formula 2 Racing Driver Sean Gelael in an upbeat, fun and really open and honest chat.

✽ A gift for you — we worked together with Rosie Jean (I Live in Balance) to create a Meditation for Creative Energy, a guided ambient meditation of full body relaxation, visualisation to the song ‘The Beginning and End’ by Young Marco featuring the Desa Babakan Gamelan Ensemble.

This podcast episode comes with a gift for you 〰️ Nestle into our warm conversation with our friend Rosie Jean, a yoga and meditation teacher and mental health worker. She is the founder of I Live in Balance, a health promotion business where she facilitates workshops about mental health.

Meet Kadek Dodi and Komang Mia 〰️ They the beautiful couple behind Balinese food business, Ajengan Melbourne. We chat with the two about merging creativity and culture alongside what it really means to ‘give back to the community’.

It’s finally here, friends 〰️ Get lost in our first episode of the sana-sini podcast as Diletta sits down with the divine Komang, a Naarm (Melbourne) vocalist and producer following the release of her new single ‘DEWI’ — Indonesian for ‘Goddess’. Listen in on a reflective conversation encompassing Komang's embrace of her mixed-identity as an Indonesian Australian, her activism, and her journey into the wonderful world she has created with her music.

What is sana-sini? Cosy up with your friend, Diletta Legowo, to explore stories of creativity from Indonesia and Australia.