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TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER
From Maralinga
- Back to Country
9.30am.
Tuesday 22 October: The Famous Spiegeltent
Using the Maralinga Projects
commissioned by the 2002 Adelaide Festival as a starting point,
this forum explores how Indigenous communities are using new
cultural projects to make empowering changes in their communities.
The Maralinga Projects encapsulate some of the fundamental issues
facing Indigenous people, including:
- Recovering
lost history - rewriting and revisioning history.
- Contamination and misuse
of land.
- Building cultural identity.
- Campaigns for the right
to return to traditional lands.
This project received only
limited coverage during the Adelaide Festival and yet may be
seen as one of the most challenging and inspiring 2002 Festival
projects. This forum will examine the project, its effects and
implications for land rights.
Moderator - Paul BROWN,
Co-ordinator, Environmental
Studies at University of New South Wales and engaged in planning
for Maralinga Projects for Adelaide Festival.
Panel
- Dr Archie BARTON, CEO of Maralinga Tjarutja Inc and
long-term campaigner for the right of the Tjarutja people to
return to their traditional lands.
- Alison PAGE, an Indigenous designer from Merrima
Designs, Sydney who continues to consult with the Oak Valley
community on the design and creation of an artroom.
- Lynette WALLWORTH, Associate Director of the 2002
Adelaide Festival and has worked in photography, short film,
installation and performance. Lynette was the head curator and
responsible for the project concept of Big New Sites produced
by The Performance Space in Sydney. Part of her work for Adelaide
Festival 2002 involved Nourish, a program of diverse art forms
at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Desert Oaks painting
and art room project with the Oak Valley Community on Maralinga
Land.
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