Barrina South's choice of women's weavings from the Australian Museum's collection. 36 items from Australia, the Pacific and North America. The 1905 weaving from Bloomfield river is an amazing link to the present as anyone who has seen Wilma Walkers contemporary weavings will testify. Ms. South notes that the weaving is unfinished. Maybe it is not. Wilma would know.
Events
In 1970 the community of Broome decided to turn the Shinju Matsuri into a festival to not only acknowledge the pearling industry, but to also showcase Broome's beauty, hisotry and community to the outside world. From then on Shinju Matsuri has been a festival that presents a talented music and arts industry unique to Broome.
Acts include:
Wagadagam Torres Strait Islander Dancers
Kross Kulcha
Yatangal featuring Mervyn Mulardy
Old Camp Band featuring John Bennet
St Agnes
And Groovylips and the Yang
Bring your own chair or blanket.
Food and beverages for sale on the evening.
Saturday September 17th
5.30pm - 11pm
Goolarri Outdoor Venue
Blackman Street, Broome
13 September 2005 to 23 September 2005
Screenings include films from the Australian Film Commission's Dramatically Black initiative - Green Bush (Warwick Thornton) and The Djarn Djarns (Wayne Blair) - plus Too Little Justice (Marcus Waters), Anula Watjarira, Go Tell It on the Mountain (Rima Tamou) and much more.
1Annual festival now in its 11th year, held in late November, usually the last week. Sporting and cultural festival including touch footy and relay sprint racing. Includes battles of the states QLD vs NSW touch footy comp. Live music on stage with a free open air concert all weekend. Arts and crafts and community food stalls.
A biennial event, The Bless Your Big BLaK Arts Festival showcases indigenous music, theatre, literature, film, multimedia, dance, and other related activities.
It presents new works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists practising in Victoria with the intention of raising awareness of indigenous culture, people and issues.
The festival is an environment for interaction and exchange between indigenous and non-indigenous people and highlights the integral role of indigenous cultures to Australia's national identity.
School of Indigenous Australian Studies
7th Indigenous Research Forum
Moving Forward - Positioning Indigenous Research in an Indigenous Context
29th - 31st August 2005
Hosted by: School of Indigenous Australian Studies, James Cook University
SIAS is pleased to host the 7th Indigenous Research Forum. This is an opportunity for Indigenous researchers to discuss, debate and share information. In particular we hope to create discussion on Indigenous Research in an Australian context.
- David Bussau
Founder of Opportunity International - Global Micro
Enterprise Development, UN Year of Microcredit 2005
Patron, Australian Entrepreneur of the Year 2004.
- The Hon. Kevin Andrews MP
Minister for Employment & Workplace Relations,
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service.
- Gerhardt Pearson
A leading Indigenous spokesperson - Chairman of the ISX, CEO, Cape York Development Corporation and Indigenous Enterprise Partnership.
The inaugural conference for Australian Indigenous Enterprises in Mining is being run in conjunction with the annual Minerals Council of Australia Sustainable Development Conference.
Significant numbers of opportunities have emerged for Aboriginal people in the mining and exploration industry over the last decade. As well as employment, there are a number of successful Aboriginal owned companies that have been established to link in and take advantage of the opportunities that exist with larger mining operations around the country.