Sci-Fi Superheros Fighting Diabetes & Lighting up Laneways with Glowing Comics

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Writer and performer Candy Bowers reveals the horrors of type 2 diabetes and its disproportionate effect on Black communities, in her afro-futuristic, genre-bending show, ‘Sweet Mama’; Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, AO, On her composition of ‘Eumeralla, a War Requiem for Peace,’ written in the Gunditjmara language to commemorate Indigenous lives lost in the forgotten resistance war of Eumeralla, performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Lead artist Emilie Walsh on Laneway Learning’s comic trails, featuring glow-in-the-dark comic panels illuminating city walls; Wellington-based dance-theatre artist, Daniel Nodder on his cosmic performance exploring the vast expanse of the universe in ‘Only Bones’.