14 June 2008
Writing black - and red
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We present a talk by two award-winning female Aboriginal writers. Gayle Kennedy is from the Wongaibon clan of the Ngiyaampa speaking people of south-western New South Wales and Cherie Dimaline is Metis and Ojibway from Canada.
They talk about writing about Indigenous lives at the Sydney Writers Festival.
Gayle Kennedy won the David Unaipon award for her manuscript which has since been published as Me, Antman and Fleabag which bristles with delicious black humour. Cherie Dimaline's novel Red Rooms won best fiction book at the 2007 Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival and Book Awards and has been described as the 'Native Rosetta stone'.
Also, Gordon Hookey speaks to his confronting and deeply political work at the inaugural Indigenous Art Triennial - and we mark the 20th anniversary of the Barunga Statement, which set out the guiding principles for a treaty.
Further Information
Culture Warriors - National Indigenous Art Triennial
Art Gallery of South Australia
June 20 through August 31 2008
Publications
Title: Me, Antman and Fleabag
Author: Gayle Kennedy
Publisher: University of Queensland Press (UQP)
URL: http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book_details.php?id=9780702236174
Title: Red Rooms
Author: Cherie Dimaline
Publisher: Theytus Books
URL: http://www.theytusbooks.ca/book.asp?b=80
Music
CD title:
Blak Traks 08
Track title:
Left My Childhood Behind
Artist: Robert Champion and Matthew Johnson
Composer: Robert Champion and Matthew Johnson
URL: http://www.kurruru.org.au/about_us/
CD title:
Tribal Voice
Track title:
Treaty
Artist: Yothu Yindi
Composer: M Yunupingu/G Yunupingu/M Mununggurr/W Marika/S Kellaway/P Kelly/P Garrett
Presenter
Daniel Browning
Producer
Daniel Browning and Selena Sullivan
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