 Culture is still alive, it's still growing, it's still evolving and this contemporary expression of art is part of our story and it's really powerful and really beautiful and I think it's really important that we continue to share what's happening with us now, not just what happened or was our stories, were our stories in the past. My name is Will Kepper, I'm from the Torres Strait Islands or commonly known today as Zenath Guest. I've been here at the ANU for just over a year I think, operating the newly established First Nations recording studio, NILAL Studios. So here at the ANU School of Music we've invited eight participants through the Australia Council for the Arts to come and use the spaces here at the School of Music I guess, to utilise whatever space we have here to be creative. And so we have participants from all around the country, here with us for seven days, working on their own stuff, stuff that they've been currently working on back in their hometowns, but also starting new works as well. Music is a lot to me, I first started writing to express feelings and a lot of anxiety that I was going through as a youngster. I found writing music, especially hip hop music, which was typically founded to be able to speak out about issues as well as what people are going through and to let people know what's happening in the community. The Space to Create program is an initiative of the Australia Council for First People's Musicians. They actually approached the ANU School of Music. The ANU like many universities has realised that if they do not make a difference, this difference will not be made. We must engage with our First Nations and more than that, we actually need to find a way to make things better as we teach and research. So when we decided what this school would be like in five years time, five years ago, we said this school would be a school that makes Indigenous music and welcomes Indigenous musicians and then we basically engineered it. First Nations music in Australia is deadly. It comes from a place of connection. It feels amazing because this is the sort of space that I wish I could have had a long time ago or I wish I could have seen other musicians who were First Nations. This is way better. We get to share who we are. So I would actually say who could not be moved to the soul by this experience. We are the future. We can do anything. Believe. Let's do it.