We’re back. Pull up a chair.
Season 3 of Beyond Survival has landed, and we’ve got a lot to tell you.
This is the long-form conversation for artists, thinkers and philosophers, and for anyone who wants to go beyond mere survival. It’s for people who don’t feel at home in fast culture, where art is lived, not consumed.
🎙 Hosts: Geraldine & Kelli🎧 Guest: Stuart Reed🐾 Superhost: Gizmo🎚 Producer: Stephanie Davis
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What’s in this episode
✉️ Project Handwritten Letters. We’re bringing back the art of the handwritten letter. There are three letterboxes at 213 Vincent Street, West Perth: Letters of Hope, Poli Rants and Love Letters. Pick up a pen and write to us, to a stranger, or to the future. We talk about why we started it and what we hope comes through the slot.
🎬 Perth Film Studios. Who benefits, who gets left out, and why “exposure but no pay” has to stop.
📣 We’re not loud enough. Artists need to be louder, and we launch Poli Rants, a new series responding to the defunding of the arts and the rise of autocracy.
🌏 AUKUS, nuclear subs and who’s paying? AUKUS is the headline, but the deeper story is the footprint: Fremantle, HMAS Stirling, Rockingham, Secret Harbour and Collie all sit inside a wider web of US military, tech, political and cultural power.
Fremantle isn’t just a port - it’s WA’s creative heart, a heritage harbour and a place where art, tourism and public memory are now rubbing up against the new defence economy. Peter Thiel’s New Zealand citizenship and Palantir links, Elon Musk’s influence machine, and the hardening of WA’s west coast into an AUKUS corridor make this one of the most important stories in years
🐝 Bees, poetry and spring. Kelli shares her bees’ recovery and Geraldine reads Definition: WOG by Natalie D Napoleon.
🗳 Fighting for democracy. Canada joining the EU, the Coalition of the Willing, and what Indigenous wisdom can teach us.
🎂 Plus: break updates, guardians revealed, cake cutting and a powerful sign-off.
💬 Over to you
Which of the three letterboxes would you write to first: Letters of Hope, Poli Rants or Love Letters? Tell us in the comments. We read every one, and some may end up in a future episode.
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🎨 CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro0:09 Welcome & Season 3 kickoff2:11 The table reveal9:46 Break updates & creative reboot18:07 Project Handwritten Letters27:00 Art Dispatch & newsletter32:35 Beyond Survival & WA talent35:38 Guardians & cake cutting38:09 Perth Film Studios48:52 We’re not loud enough53:13 AUKUS & nuclear subs1:00:59 Bees & spring1:01:57 Poetry: Natalie D Napoleon1:05:58 Fighting for democracy1:10:41 Sign off & outro
🍰 Beyond Survival | The Table — Substack
Our table recipes are all in one place, converted by hand so you can make them at home:
🍰 Sticky Toffee Sponge Cake
🥬 Warm Spinach & Artichoke Dip
🍕 Pizza Bianca
🎨 Artist Watch
Jill Ansell, From the Attic (2027), Stafford Gallery, North Fremantle. Jill explores the objects we inherit, discover and tuck away, and the stories they carry. Salvaged tins, vintage books, printers’ trays, sewing machine parts, trunks and suitcases become intimate works about people, place and inheritance. Stafford Gallery · jillansell.com
Unbridled: Unleashing Women’s Voices Through Poetry, Perth Poetry Festival 2026. Event details
Hannah Pillinger, No Bride. A Perth/Boorloo singer-songwriter now based in Melbourne, blending atmospheric vocals, spoken word and electronic textures. Her debut EP Mundane launched on 16 September 2026. Triple J Unearthed
📚 Recommended reading: All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump by Anthony Scaramucci (hardcover 22 September 2026; audiobook narrated by the author, 12 hrs 46 mins).
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