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TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER
Blackfella/Whitefella
- Toeing the Line
11.00am,
Tuesday 22 October: Room 1
Exploring the relationships
between white and Indigenous artists in working for cultural
development.
- Is there
an appropriate relationship between whitefella and Indigenous
artists?
- How could such a relationship
flourish?
- Is there a conflict between
perceived roles of rebellion / dissent and relationships between
whitefella and blackfella artists?
- Should whitefellas butt
out of the debate?
This panel explores the question
of working together - often in cross-cultural environments for
social change.
Moderator - Tony BIRCH, Indigenous historian, lecturer
in English at University of Melbourne.
Panel
- Wesley ENOCH, freelance theatre director and formerly
Artistic Director of Kooemba Djarra.
- Gary FOLEY, well known as an activist and actor
and a curator at the Melbourne Museum.
- David MILROY, Artistic Director of Yirra Yaakin
Noongar Theatre in Perth.
- Rachael SWAIN is Artistic Director
of Marrugeku Theatre Company, a long-term inter-cultural project
and makers of "Mimi" and "Crying Baby".
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