Passion Fruit on Air

The science is giving us great surprises and this time is coming from Ben Garcia-Bloj a Chilean physician and scientist that started working with gene engineering technologies during his Ph.D. Passionate about finding innovative therapies, his goal is to reach a much larger number of patients that he would ever do as a medical doctor, treating one person at a time. In 2013 he arrive to Perth working with a brand new epigenetic tool, known as CRISPR  (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), and its potential as a treatment of high mortality rate cancers such as gastric, breast and lung. He strongly believes in the power of the human body to cure itself and use CRISPR to activate dormant genes in cancer cells. Ben has great news and he will be sharing them in Passion Fruit on Air!

Proudly in Passion Fruit on Air we’ll have in the studio Lindsay Miles a writer, blogger, speaker, workshop facilitator and community organiser. She has a passion for ethical and sustainable living. One day she took the Plastic Free July and her perspective about how to be environmental friendly changed since then. “Because there is a better way to live than accumulating more and more, and tossing it in the trash when we’re done. Letting go of the excess means making room for new experiences and time for doing what we truly love. Who doesn’t want more of that?” Lindsay Miles in www.treadingmyownpath.com

In Passion Fruit on Air we are celebrating life and how we can achieve our own wellbeing. At the studio we'll have two incredible women who will be telling us their experience in life. Both are heroes and from them we can learn a lot how to improve and to be a better person starting with ourselves. Nedine Reeves – Hennessey a hero who won a breast cancer will share with us her path from to know her diagnosis and how that changed has changed her life. You need to listen her. She is an inspiration by herself. Our other hero is Gwenda Smith, an ex-nurse and we can say an holistic therapist who help people to cure their emotions and be healthier in mind, body and soul. In our section, the movie of the week, we will talk about Arrival, the best sci fi movie of the year. A brilliant movie.

If you are interested in start your own business or you already are in this process, Passion Fruit on Air is your program. At the studio we will have Ophelie Rat, Operation Manager of the recently opened Flux and the Spacecubed which is one of the most popular co-working space and where dozens of ideas have turned in real business. Ophelie has a deep passion for innovation and start-ups especially where companies are looking to have a social impact and are helping to shape tomorrow’s economy. She has been involved with Spacecubed since the beginning and plays a major role in activating the Spacecubed community which has over 750 members. In our second segment we will be talking with the Director of The Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Nicholas Maksymow. In Perth the festival, which gather a selection of old and the last movies of the Russian cinema, will be held at Cinema Paradiso in Northbridge from the Thursday 10th of November to the Wednesday 16th November.

We will talk about one of the icon of this wild Australia: The Tasmanian Devil. With cartoons we fell in love with this grumpy dude and to see them face to face (in our case at the zoo) that grumpy cartoon it is just a cartoon, because Tasmanian Devils are cute animals, with big teeth and we can say very noisy, but anyway incredible and unique. Unfortunately they have developed the Devil Facial Tumour Disease and their population has been threatened by this type of cancer during decades. However recent researches has revealed that their own immune system is reacting and some of them have recovered from cancer, which means a great hope for them and for the ecosystem of Tasmania. We are so happy. At the phone and from Tassie we will have in our program, the Chilean Rodrigo Hamede, Post Doctoral Research Fellow of the University of Tasmania who has been involved with Tasmanian devils for more than 13 years. Rodrigo will be giving us more details about his research, and his life in Tassie. He is not a stranger from Chilean media, one because he is Chilean, second because he has been interviewed here and in Chile by many newspapers, TV programs, we are very happy to have him in Passion Fruit on Air.

Amazing movies such as The adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Mad Max, Rabbit – Proof Fence, Moulin Rouge and Red Dog are the outcome of this prolific and high quality industry. And because we want to know more about it we have invited to the studio of Passion Fruit on Air, Ian Hale the Managing Director of The Backlot Perth a boutique cinema in West Perth, also Chairman of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. And during his spare time (which we know is not a lot) he is a volunteer basketball coach at The Esther Foundation. For his commitment he received The Unsung Hero Award given by the Rotary Club of Mill Point. We are in front of a real box of surprises. For the weekend we have some good recommendations starting to go to Kings Park for a walk. You will see what spring is. And if you allergic to pollen, take your medicine and go. Don’t miss out. It is a great experience.

Cesar Ortega will be talking about the Day of the Dead. This amazing tradition started with Azteca culture and then it mixed with Catholicism. It is beautiful to see Mexican celebrating their dead as they were alive. If you want to know more about this great Mexican tradition just tune our show this Tuesday 18th October. Jose Briones, Director of Viva Mexico Film Festival will be giving more details about the festival. We went to see I, Daniel Blake, what a movie! Great performances and direction from Ken Loach. Don't miss out our program! Also we have give away tickets!

The second version of Viva Mexico Film Festival (www.vivamexicofilmfestival.com) will be running in Perth from Tuesday 18th to 23rd of October. Seven of the best last Mexican movies and the eight short films selected for the competition are part of the diverse film line-up of the Festival’s offer. Jose Briones, Festival's Director will be giving us details about this Mexican party. In this program we will have also one of the protagonists of the Viva Mexico Film Festival: Abbie Cardwell.  Australian singer who has participated in The Voice, she was part of the Keith Urbans team and has received recognition for her talent from Triple J Unearthed Winner, BMI USA Song Winner and ABC Music Award Winner. She deserves all that recognition and more. She is owner of an extraordinary voice and plays many instruments such us guitar, banjo, ukulele, harmonica she is a talent! Three years ago she decided to go to Mexico, without any Spanish and having just some contacts there, because she wanted to play with Mexican bands and explore that market. Her journey is beautifully documented in the film “I am here for one night”, which will be screen this Thursday 20th at The Backlot Studios. And Abbie will be with us that so don’t miss out the opportunity to listen her inspirational story.

Jenny Simpson, CEO of Awesome Festival Perth, will tell us the activities that the Festival offers this year. Jenny has been involved with Awesome since 2007 where she has held several Board positions. Seeing her walking through the Perth Community Centre you can feel her passion and dedication to the Festival. We want to know about this extraordinary woman who moves culture and entertainment in WA. Awesome Festival brings to children and people of all ages many shows, performances and exhibitions. Percy Kalino is leading the Lunching Time concerts with his band composed by kids from 8 to 14 years old. You can enjoy, for free, their music from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, Monday 3rd, Wednesday 5th and Friday 7th October at the Perth Cultural Centre. We will also have Percy at the studio of Passion Fruit on Air, knowing more about Awesome Festival and about this talented musician.

Perth was a fashion catwalk for almost a week. We have invited Monique Ceccato a Perth based fashion and lifestyle blogger better known as Little Miss Mon Bon. In her twenty-something years old, six of them involved in the fashion industry and with more than 8 thousands followers in Instagram is an influential voice when it is time to talk about trends and lifestyle. Knowing her story and path to be a blogger, you will be inspired by her determination, focus and also from her fresh and positive way to see life.