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Love triangle: Elise (Rhian Phineasa), Jayson (Danny Bani) and Lindy (Talei Elu)
Broken up: Billy (Aaron Fa'aoso) and ex-girlfriend Cindy (Maudesta Bowie)
This week:
J-dogs – e feget bout Elsie and em try meke move lor Lindy. We gor listen por Gretel’s secret… but em still nor be tell em mun Harry yet.
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This week:
Gretel e worry bout em sister Elise who e 14 and em growing up fast. Gretel spik for Elsie why em should be careful with them boys. Gretel e try por keep the family together now that em mum been pass away….Peter, the Dad, e finding it hard por talk por em kids.
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The Kasa Por Yarn family has lots of secrets: Peter the dad (Charles Passi), and his kids - Gretel (Mary Mills), Elise (Rhian Phineasa) and Billy (Aaron Fa'aoso).
Billy is a football player. He is a very outgoing, ‘life of the party’ type guy. He was pursuing a career in football and he was also in a relationship with Cindy. Billy got caught up with the southern lifestyle and lost focus and forgot the reason he was in Townsville. His relationship with his family deteriorated but before that he had a good relationship with them.Billy (Aaron Fa'aoso) and his ex-girlfriend Cindy (Maudesta Bowie). Billy left Cindy to pursue a career in football.
Billy’s whole family are dealing with the death of his mother and that’s one of the reasons Billy left the island. He also left to pursue a career in NRL. While Billy was in Townsville, something dramatic happened to him that changed his life forever. Now he is faced with the ordeal of telling his family what happened. As the show progresses, it’ll eventually make sense why he is disconnected from his family and became a recluse.
It was great to work with them again. It was a close bond and connection we formed on the RAN project and it was a very special experience. It was great to reconnect on a professional level and work together to tell the story and convey the messages.Billy (Aaron Fa'aoso) with his mate Harry (Jimi Bani). Harry notices Billy has changed since coming back to the island.
The production wouldn’t have been what it was without them and they brought a level of experience that we needed for the success of the production. They brought the right energy and temperament to the project. Charles is great to work with and Jimi has come along in leaps and bounds and I believe he’s one to look out for.I know I’ll continue to work with them in the future and work with more stories in the Torres.
Most definitely. Pamphlets and brochures have their place but it’s more appropriate to use creative media to target the intended audience – especially the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences. We’re an oral culture and Kasa Por Yarn is about telling stories about the messages, so it is highly effective. This project was able to engage the community from an inside-out approach.A multi-platform approach is needed when promoting the health, social and lifestyle issues that are affecting Indigenous communities – radio, music, web, mobile phones, and much more. This kind of project is one of the most effective ways to engage the community at the grass roots level.
I’m working on various projects which are ‘in development’ but there’s one that should come to fruition in the near future which will be an opportunity for Torres Strait Islanders to participate.
This week: Billy runs into an old friend, Jayson puts the hard word on Elise and the stress on Peter starts to take its toll. Download it here:
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This one now we bin wait for! Follow the story blo one family in the Straits who bin come together for tombstone opening. E gad plenty of family secrets! Enjoy!
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Kasa Por Yarn, a radio drama funded by Queensland Health. It airs on Radio 4MW at 11am and 9pm daily and runs for 12 weeks.
Aaron Fa’aoso was the creative consultant on the show and stars as Billy. “The fact that it is tailor-made for the Straits — there was quite a bit of community consultation — is an absolutely fantastic way to get vital messages out and receive community support,” said Aaron.
The storylines and characters were developed with the help of local creative people through a series of workshops on Thursday Island last year.
The end product is a powerful journey through the some of the lifestyle decisions affecting local people.
In Kasa Por Yarn, Aaron plays Billy, a professional footballer who comes home to ‘the island’ for his mother’s tombstone opening.
“Billy has a secret and we find out that he’s not the only one,” said Maleta Nona, Program Manager, Men’s and Women’s Health Program on Thursday Island.
The story is also follows 14 year old Elise as she decides whether to go out with Jayson. Jayson also likes Elise’s best friend Lindy.
Aaron Fa’aoso is joined by Charles Passi and Jimi Bani, who starred in the Logie Award-winning TV series Remote Area Nurse, and Rhain Phineasa, Mary Mills, Danny Bani, Talei Elu and Maudesta Bowie. Patrick Mau aka Kidd Blaze (featuring SK and Danny Boii) did the theme song. Aaron Tamwoy plays the storyteller on the show.
The show was written and directed by Simon Luckhurst and Nigel Pegrum was the sound engineer.
If you would like to air Kasa Por Yarn on your local radio station or want more information email heather_robertson@health.qld.gov.au.
