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There's a rumour that we're not a very "artsy" place. Good thing it's just a rumour. Galleries, theatre groups, nostalgia museums, sculpture festivals and indigenous performances just brush the surface of a cultural canvas that goes far deeper. As they say - art is purely a matter of perspective after all.
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03 Nov 2023 - 04 Nov 2023
SandSong: Stories from the Great Sandy Desert
Under the vast Kimberley sky, the red pindan dust stretches across the desert homelands of the Walmajarri, where the ancient knowledge of People and of Country is preserved through Songlines that have endured for hundreds of generations. SandSong tells the unique story of this Place and the survival of its People. Between the 1920s and 1960s, Aboriginal people were removed off their Country and forced into hard labour for no wages and only minimal rations. Despite this displacement and cultural disruption, the people of the Western Desert have maintained unbroken connection to their Land, keeping stories and kinship strong. This is the Country of Wangkatjungka woman Ningali Josie Lawford-Wolf (1967-2019), an important cultural consultant and artistic collaborator of Bangarra whose spirit, stories and artistic contributions have inspired a number of the company’s works,and enriched the broader arts landscape. SandSong is created by Bangarra Dance Theatre in consultation with Wangkatjungka/Walmajarri Elders from the Kimberley and Great Sandy Desert regions.
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03 Nov 2023 - 04 Nov 2023
SandSong
SandSong: Stories from the Great Sandy DesertUnder the vast Kimberley sky, the red pindan dust stretches across the desert homelands of the Walmajarri, where the ancient knowledge of People and of Country is preserved through Songlines that have endured for hundreds of generations. SandSong tells the unique story of this Place and the survival of its People. Between the 1920s and 1960s, Aboriginal people were removed off their Country and forced into hard labour for no wages and only minimal rations. Despite this displacement and cultural disruption, the people of the Western Desert have maintained unbroken connection to their Land, keeping stories and kinship strong. This is the Country of Wangkatjungka woman Ningali Josie Lawford-Wolf (1967-2019), an important cultural consultant and artistic collaborator of Bangarra whose spirit, stories and artistic contributions have inspired a number of the company’s works,and enriched the broader arts landscape. SandSong is created by Bangarra Dance Theatre in consultation with Wangkatjungka/Walmajarri Elders from the Kimberley and Great Sandy Desert regions. This work honours the legacy of Ningali Josie Lawford-Wolf and her family - past, present and future.SandSong is recommended for ages 12+ due to political and social themes, including aspects and depictions related to traumatic events suffered by First Nations Peoples. Presented by HOTA, Home of the Arts and Bangarra Dance Theatre
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17 Dec 2023
Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman - A barrow, a singsing
Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman - A barrow, a singsing‘When I look at the sport of rugby league, I see the body colliding with the earth like barrows in dramatic formations, a repetitive display of rainbow coloured armour, a dance, a singsing of shields that hover before the skin, flesh and bones. Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman Weaving together imagery, colours and materials inspired by Bridgeman’s ancestral lineage in Papua New Guinea with those of the rugby league sporting code, A barrow, a singsing is a highly personal work that reverberates with ideas celebration and sorrow; life and death; victory and loss; joy and sadness; flesh and bones; stillness and movement; sport and culture; front and back; colour and darkness; bodies and limbs. Reimagined by Bridgeman’s installation, the green field of rugby league becomes an interior space: a stage where disputes are played out, where sadness can take over or where victory results in awe and jubilation. And as Bridgeman suggests, ‘there are two sides to a shield. One presents itself as the face of war, designed to project strength and protect in times of conflict. The other carries all of the physical traits and emotional vulnerabilities of being human.’ This major new commission by Australian-Papua New Guinean artist Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman brings together 19 shield paintings with sculpture, photography and installation, to create one of Bridgeman’s most substantial and ambitious bodies of work to date. Commissioned by Performance Space and HOTA, Home of the Arts as part of a new three-year partnership, A barrow, a singsing is a powerful assertion of personal and cultural strength and vulnerability.
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