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Speaker 1: Seven two Weekend Breakfast happening in the Arts.

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Speaker 2: It's five minutes before nine o'clock. Welcome back to seven

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Speaker 2: oh two Weekend Breakfast with megog and Slow Misting. So

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Speaker 2: what's happening in the arts. Queeratopia is back for twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six. The festival kicks off today in seven oh

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Speaker 2: two Land and to tell us a bit more about

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Speaker 2: this year's edition, were joined on the line by Giffilia Suisa,

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Speaker 2: who's a cultural worker and the co founder of Queyatopia. Giffilo,

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Speaker 2: very good morning to you, Welcome to weekend Breakfast.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Hi, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. So for someone that's never seen Quyatopia, been

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Speaker 2: to Quyatopia, what is Queatopia?

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Speaker 1: So, Queatopia is essentially kind of a music festival that

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Speaker 1: also includes other discipline here and there, from visual art

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Speaker 1: to kind of performance arts. But at the core of it,

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Speaker 1: Quatopia was conceived as a space two platform queer artists

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Speaker 1: to create a safer space for que communities or lgbt

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Speaker 1: q I A plus communities to come together to celebrate

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Speaker 1: themselves in their full expression. But it's also a place

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Speaker 1: where allies can come and show their support for queer artists.

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Speaker 1: We also have artists on Apple who you know are

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Speaker 1: allies of the community, so it's really space for coming

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Speaker 1: together for self expression and for celebration.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about some of the people that will be

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Speaker 2: part of this year's festival.

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Speaker 1: So we have a really incredible artist from the Agora coast,

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Speaker 1: well both in the Agria coast in France named Words

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Speaker 1: of Asia. We also have another international artists from the

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Speaker 1: US and New Jersey. Their name is The Artists. And

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Speaker 1: then we have local acts such as Manana, Wisha, Bendalo,

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Speaker 1: Uzulu Paka and so many more.

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Speaker 2: And so tell us about Yes, my job. Of course

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Speaker 2: this is also the biggest version of the biggest iteration

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Speaker 2: of the festival. Tell us about you know, some of

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Speaker 2: the other parts that's making it, you know, the biggest

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Speaker 2: queerotopia so far.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure. So we are like five years in and

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Speaker 1: so every year we try to improve and grow in

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Speaker 1: various ways. At the Court as well, one of our

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Speaker 1: pillars of the festival is well being, so we work

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Speaker 1: with a youth centered wellness and mental health organization called Mindful.

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Speaker 1: They'll be putting together a couple of workshops which will

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Speaker 1: really be about bringing our community together, but also creating

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Speaker 1: a space where we can like center our wellbeing in always.

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Speaker 1: We'll also be working with House of DITC, one of

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Speaker 1: the founders being bad Dic who founded Pride. There will

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Speaker 1: also be facility and workshops in the specific space, so

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Speaker 1: we try to really create an environment that's a generation

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Speaker 1: of it also that goes beyond the music.

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Speaker 2: And then also tell us about the venue for this

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Speaker 2: year and what people need to know if they're going

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Speaker 2: to be coming to this year's Creatopia.

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Speaker 1: So it's taking place at Women's Share Constitution Hell. People

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Speaker 1: go to our Instagram page at other village people, they

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Speaker 1: can find all the information around access and entry points

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Speaker 1: that everything is cut clearly marked, especially specifically Constitution Hell.

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Speaker 1: There are always people around that can support directions.

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Speaker 2: Here and how much are tickets if you want to

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Speaker 2: come to the festival. I know it's a Maulti day festival.

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Speaker 2: Are you able to buy tickets for just the one day?

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Speaker 2: Is it only tickets for both days?

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Speaker 1: Yes, so people can buy tickets. One day tickets of

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Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty and weekend tickets are eight hundred