The theatre, dance and music works at this year’s festival have helped fulfil a three-pronged vision from some two decades ago.
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Is That You, Ruthie? is a harrowing account of a mother and daughter’s attempt to repair their fractured relationship.
My top three works situated witnessing as a political act. These works invite you to revisit what you thought you knew.
Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor reproduces something familiar with a dash of local flavour.
Uncle Jack Charles had a remarkable career of truth-telling across theatre, screen and books.
Indigenous oral history is more than a methodology. It is living history, practised for thousands of millennia, intrinsically woven into Aboriginal people’s way of life and culture.
David Milroy’s Panawathi Girl is a rocking, vaudevillian, politically sharp and engaging piece of Australian First Nations’ music theatre.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley’s biography is an intimate and personal play, tempered with humour and love.
The world premiere of Nardi Simpson’s Black Drop Effect takes in the complex histories of Aboriginal responses to commemoration, and makes space for protest, cultural reclamation and negotiation.
A playwright known for Black Comedy tackles sorry business and loss - providing an engaging window into family life.
Too often, TV shows and films present Aboriginal characters as oppressed people. But two new TV series, Cleverman and Songlines on Screen, are a welcome contrast.
The performance space in which Wesley Enoch’s play Black Diggers is being performed at the Brisbane Festival is a large black box. It features a raised stage in the middle which proves versatile for battlegrounds…
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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PhD Candidate, Griffith University
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Professor and Academic Director (Indigenous Research), La Trobe University
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Lecturer in Humanities, Arts, Social Science and Education (HASSE), University of New England
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Research associate, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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ARC Future Fellow, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Music, University of New England
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Senior Lecturer, University of New England
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Indigenous Scientia Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer — Writing, Editing, Publishing, University of Southern Queensland
