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Australia traditional storytelling, handed down from generation to generation, has always been part of the landscape. Since the beginning of time (the Dreaming) storytelling played a vital role in Australian Aboriginal culture, one of the world's oldest cultures. Aboriginal children were told stories from a very early age; stories that helped ...
Stompen Ground Festival is a contemporary and traditional music, dance, art exhibitions and ancestral storytelling festival in Broome, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Stompend is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned, designed and managed arts and cultural festival. It was created by Mark Bin Baker. [1] The festival includes:
FNAWN serves as an advocacy body and resources service for emerging and established Indigenous Australian writers, poets and storytellers, [10] helping to develop skills and provide development opportunities, "to sustain and enhance First Nations Australians writing and storytelling". [11]
The Weipa Festival, a celebration of indigenous art and performance from all over Australia held at Weipa, [2] was founded by Thancoupie. Storytelling remains a major function of artworks produced by First Nations Australian artists.
In his keynote address for the 2013 Come Out Festival in Adelaide, Pryor spoke about the importance of storytelling, performance, and dance in engaging children with literacy, literature, and Indigenous cultures. [6] Pryor was an ambassador for the National Year of Reading (Australia) in 2012. [7]
The National Folk Festival (NFF) is held every year at Easter in the Australian capital, Canberra. First held in Melbourne in 1967, from 1969 the NFF was held in various states in city and regional venues. Since 1992 the festival had been staged at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC) at Easter from
The Festival of the Dreaming was first held in 1997. [1] [2] The name refers to the Aboriginal Australian concept of The Dreaming.The first edition of the festival, which founded by artistic director Rhoda Roberts, was the first of four leading up to the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, with some events held at the Sydney Opera House.
Ngapartji Ngapartji was an Australian Indigenous language maintenance ... storytelling, tragedy, humour, pop ... the Adelaide Festival Theatre (Nov 2009), the ...