Kaya and welcome to Season Three of Songlines. My name is Cezera Critti-Schnaars, and
I can't believe we've been yarning with First Nations artists across WA for three years now.
In this episode, it's Bunuru, and things are hot in Boorloo, much like today's interview with
actor, director, and language revivalist Kylie Bracknell. For more than a decade, Kylie has
appeared across theatre and television, most recently in the Netflix series Irreverent. But
this is only skimming the surface. Kylie – among many other roles - was responsible for
the mammoth task of translating and directing Shakespeare's Scottish play into Noongar
as part of the 2020 Perth Festival World First, Hecate.

Despite this impressive resume, Kylie is most passionate about language reclamation and
preserving culture through art for the next generation. This is Kylie Bracknell...

Kylie: Hey, Cezera, how are you doing today?

Cezera: I'm doing great, Kylie. How are you doing? Thank you so much for coming in today.
It means a lot to be able to interview you for this podcast.

Kylie: Oh, I feel flattered. It's so nice to come in and have a yarn. I'm a little bit terrified at
what questions might come my way, but hopefully I can deliver.

Cezera: Nothing too bad. So first up on the round of questions is, so with all of our episodes
over the last couple of seasons, we started with the same question. What does this season
represent for you? So we are in Bunuru this time. And what is your relationship to this time
of year? Do you have any specific memories tied to it?

Kylie: Yeah. I probably have a lot of memories tied to this time of year. It's incredibly hot
and windy. And I guess thinking back to my childhood, I would be at Pinjarra Pools. For
those of you who don't know where Pinjarra is, it's about 165 kilometres southeast of Perth.
I remember going there as a kid and I guess today as an adult, alleged adult. I live by the
coast and I'm really grateful for that.

So lots of time swimming with my little guy, actually, who was around the age that I was
swimming at the pools back then or out in the dams, freshwater dams. Bunuru has always
been a time of being either at cricket games with family or, yeah. But Bunuru is definitely a
fun time to be out and about. Actually, I remember it might have been Bunuru when there
was a tiger snake that came into our backyard when I was a kid. And our cat tried to protect
us, our little kitten. And it made a big scene, let us know it was there.

Just on dusk sort of going into night because we used to lay on the trampoline at the back and look up at the stars. And, thankfully, we were on the trampoline and not running around
where the kitten was. But, yeah, that night, he ended up biting the cat.

Cezera: Oh, no.

Kylie: The cat gave him a good scratch though, and then Dad went over and took care of
him. We don't have time for all of the memories from Bunuru in this podcast, but there are
some fond memories of this time of year, definitely. So, yeah, just being mindful of the
reptiles and the creatures that actually do literally come out in this season to enjoy Boodja
and us just trying to keep cool.

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