Why was Awaye! created?
Awaye! started out of Alice Springs with a presenter called Clayton Lewis during the International Year of Indigenous People in 1993. At that time Aboriginal broadcasters were lobbying hard to get a program that specifically talked about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture, as opposed to current affairs. Aboriginal art was just starting to be bought and sold on the international market and the industry was growing exponentially, so there was a real audience for this type of program.
