Podcasts

(2025) Guest on Threshold podcast: ‘Hark: Country is Speaking‘ [S5:E16]

(2024) Guest on ‘The Ville’ podcast: ‘A love letter to Country – poetry, Noongar language and the joy of writing with Cass Lynch‘ [S2:E1]

(2024) Guest on Scitech’s Particle podcast: ‘Memories of the last ice age‘ [Elements series: Fire]

(2024) Guest on ABC Listen’s Story Stream: ‘The rescue of rare trapdoor spiders’

(2023) Guest on ‘New Scientist Weekly’: #159 Aboriginal stories describe ancient climate change and sea level rise in Australia

(2020) Guest on ‘Little Yarns’ for ABC Kids Listen: Whale In Noongar, Honey Possum in Noongar, Shore in Noongar

Click here for the educator and teacher’s notes for utilising the Little Yarns podcast in the classroom.

Featured Speaker/Performer

(2026) Featured poet at Perth Festival’s ‘Summit: Poetic Futures’ at Lawson Flats

(2024) Featured poet at WA Poetry Month Showcase presented by Red Room Poetry

(2023) ‘Spider Burrows’ at Ghost Tunes Residency Performance produced by Counterflows (UK)

(2023) ‘Silk Clocks: A Being in the World that is Soft, Strong, and Stretchy’ for Marrugeku lab ‘Dance And Cultural Dramaturgies In Contested Land‘

(2022) Keynote ‘Digital Sovereignty’ at BLEED ECHO for Arts House

(2022) ‘Embodied Climate Knowledges’ presentation at Hot & Bothered for Science Gallery International

(2021) ‘Cometland’ –  a creative non-fiction piece commissioned for the Nocturnal Art series and performed at Fremantle Arts Centre

(2020) ‘Melting Mammoths’ – a talk on arts funding and Woolly Mammoths at the Hatched exhibition launch at PICA

Panels (selection)

(2025) ‘Climate: Art in Action, Action in Art’ panel as part of The National Play Summit for Australian Plays Transform

(2024) ‘Climate Action Through Art’ panel for Creative Conversations by Perth Festival

(2024) ‘‘As the spider extends its web, one’s destiny unfolds’: The Cultural Value of Spiders‘ for Kaori Nagai’s Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis (video also below)

(2022) ‘Dark Quiet’ panel event for Siteworks Laboratorium Talks at Bunandon

(2022) ‘Earth is in Time on Time’ panel with Professor Will Steffen at ANAT SPECTRA 2022: Multiplicity

(2021) ‘End Game: Adaptation, Regeneration & Strategies for Survival‘ – final panel in the ‘Tipping Point’ series at WA Museum Boola Bardip

(2021) ‘Myths and Narratives: Stories of Place’ – panel event responding to the ‘Love In Bright Landscapes’ exhibition at PICA

(2020) ‘Recovering From A Pandemic‘  – the final panel in the ‘Refuge Talks Series’ for Arthouse Melbourne

(2020) ‘Awavena Long Table : An urgent question of survival’ panel at Art Gallery of WA (video below)

(2019) Panel event for the ‘Preppers’ exhibition at Fremantle Arts House. Listen to panel here.

In the news:

(2026) ‘Albany 2026: Hundreds of drones illuminate Indigenous storytelling as First Lights Kinjarling lights up city‘ (Albany Advertiser)

(2026) ‘Albany 2026: First Lights Kinjarling to shed light on Noongar creation stories of Great Southern landmarks’ (Albany Advertiser)

(2025) ‘AAH Fellows recognise six outstanding humanities EMCRs’ (Australian Academy of the Humanities)

(2024) ‘Experts, citizen scientists team up to rescue rare trapdoor spiders in WA’s Porongurup Range’ (ABC News)

(2023) ‘‘I was sleeping on a gravesite’: Rottnest Island’s complex history brought to light’ (Guardian Australia)

(2018) ‘Weaving wonderful words’ (The West Australian)

Images:

Videos:

Video: Cass Lynch discusses ancient trapdoor spiders in the Porongurup Range National Park in southern Western Australia, along with a trapdoor spider rescue and the story Ancestor about a trapdoor spider that travels to the moon. From the 55 minute mark.

Video details: Panel Title: The Cultural Value of Spiders (Jan 2024). Speakers: Nathan Morehouse (University of Cincinnati), ‘Seeing with Eight Eyes: Exploring the Visual World of Jumping Spiders’ Alberto Corsin Jimenez (ILLA-CSIC), ‘Three Spiders: Earth, Cloud, Sky’ Cass Lynch (Curtin University), ‘Aunties and uncles in the undergrowth: writing from the perspective of our more-than-human kin’. Chair: Lisa Jean Moore (SUNY). The spider fable workshop is part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis’ (June 2023-May 2025), led by Kaori Nagai (University of Kent).

Video: AGWA Long Table: An Urgent Question of Survival – 8th February 2020 at the Art Gallery of WA, Perth

Video details: Invited speakers include respected cultural advocate Carol Innes, artist Esther McDowell/Yabini Kickett, writer/academic Cassie Lynch, artist Curtis Taylor, eminent scientist and ecologist Professor Kingsley Dixon, artist and researcher Oron Catts, School Strike for Climate Perth organiser Sampson Mccrackan, and AGWA Associate Curator of 21st Century Arts Dunja Rmandić.