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Yorta Yorta/Ngarrindjeri man, Australian Indigenous Comic Con Director, Founder of Indiginerd popculture company.
Episode 34: Who is Cienan Muir?
Founder of Indiginerd pop culture company
Of all the types of storytelling surrounding us, Indigenous storytelling, through its oral storytelling origins, has endured on this continent for over sixty thousand years. As traditional stories and knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation, Indigenous peoples have increasingly adapted as new formats become available.
Yorta Yorta/Ngarrindjeri man, Cienan Muir is on the leading edge of Indigenous storytelling, using gaming and pop culture as methods to tell traditional stories and engage young Indigenous people. As founder of Indiginerd, a space to celebrate Indigenous creativity, he launched Indigicon as a platform for Indigenous people to come together and share their stories.
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Show Notes
Here’s some extra things you might not know about our guests, as well as some of the things mentioned during the episode.
Cienan Muir
Yorta Yorta and Ngarrindjeri man, Cienan Muir is the creator of IndigiNerd and director of Indigicon, which is a platform to promote the contribution of Indigenous creativity across the creative industries.
Cienan’s professional background also includes having managed and organised youth orientated events such as the annual Koorie Youth Summit and ‘Blackout’ which is a smaller regional event for young people. Both events act as feedback loops for young people to talk through what they need within their communities.
Through IndigiNerd, Ceinan and his team work to provide events, big or small, for popular culture enthusiasts, video gamers or comic book readers with the aim of giving people who attend these events a platform and network to meet likeminded people.
The space IndigiNerd provides encourages an organic conversation around culture, healing and the cultural loads that young people experience.
Cienan speaks about IndigiNerd and about being deadly and proud:
Speaking from his ancestral homelands, Cienan talks about the “We Matter” campaign.
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Check out all the guests who appear this season:
Former Australian Diamonds Head Coach, now head of high performance and assistant coach for the London Pulse
Board Director, Mentor. Mother, Entrepreneurial thinker and innovative strategist. Empowerer of women.
World-leading Australian neuroscientist in occupational therapy and stroke rehabilitation and recovery research.
Australian social psychologist, currently Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Business expert, best-selling author and international keynote speaker on mastering the power of mindsets.
Highly-awarded cognitive neuropsychologist at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney.
Founder and CEO of LAJOIE SKIN, qualified and experienced chemist, marketer with a passion for sustainability and the dance floor.
Experienced senior executive and board director with an international track record of leading teams to address complex challenges.
Inspirational speaker & performance coach turning near death into durability model of strength, self-esteem, overcoming adversity.
Highly experienced strategist, leadership champion and expert in the area of human potential.
Yorta Yorta/Ngarrindjeri man, Australian Indigenous Comic Con Director, Founder of Indiginerd popculture company.
Director of Positive Minds Australia, widely published Author of Resilience, Wellbeing, Confidence & Social Emotional Intelligence.
Associate Head of Learning and Teaching in Psychology, Director of Postgraduate Professional Training Programs in Counselling and Psychology.
Pilot, mentor and motivational speaker with an inspiring story and message of resilience.
Author and coach on resilience in the face of stress, anxiety and fear created by a life changing diagnosis.
Senior Lecturer and Deputy Clinical Director with the School of Psychological Science at UWA.
Australia’s very own ‘Dr Happy‘, at the forefront of the positive psychology movement and founder of The Happiness Institute.
Australian expert on mental health, Director of The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney.
Professor of the Department of Psychology, Director of the Music, Sound and Performance Lab at Macquarie University.
Queer, non-binary, Jewish writer, performer, activist and public speaker based in Naarm/ Birraranga / Melbourne.
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