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2012 Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival
The Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival will celebrate the breadth of contemporary and traditional artistic
expression amongst Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders with theatre, music, writing, film,
cabaret, dance and more.
WHEN: 10/02/2012 to 12/02/2012
WHERE: Various locations around Federation Square: Main stage – ACMI – BMW Edge – Birrarung Marr, ArtPlay
STATE: VIC
COUNTRY: AUS
Theatre:
Coranderrk - We Will Show the Country BMW Edge, Federation Square - Saturday 11 February and Sunday 12 February 4pm Places must be reserved at www.trybooking.com/BAPU Ilbijerri Theatre Company. Uniting the power of oral history and the authority of the written-word to forge a personal connection with the voices of the past, Coranderrk - We Will Show the Country sees key figures such as William Barak and several of the men and women of Coranderrk speak directly to a contemporary audience.
Blak Cabaret ACMI event space, The Cube - Saturday 11 February and Sunday 12 February at 6pm. This event is free however places must be reserved through www.trybooking.com/BBUF
A cocktail of comedy, music, poetry and dancing, featuring Kutcha Edwards, Dave Arden, Bart Willoughby, Peter Rotumah, Robbie Bundle, Uncle Herb, Bear, Black Elvis, Lisa Maza, Illana Atkinson, Johnny Harding, Jida Gulpilil Murray, Kevin Kropinyeri, Shiralee Hood, Mia Stanford, Denise McGuinness, Rieo Ellis, Josh
Bond, Jimmy Peters and DJ Crystal McKinnon; and in two special shows you can witness the one and only Constantina Bush & the Bushettes – join Constantina Bush, aka Kamahi Djordan King, a talented Gurindji man, and those naughty Bushettes as they take us on a sneak peek into their lives.
Lu'arn Earth Stage, lower terrace at Birrarung Marr - Saturday 11 February and Sunday 12 February at 8.30pm.
Lu'arn, a contemporary dance performance will engage audiences. Encompassing, ritual and puppetry performance, inspired by a traditional Boon Wurrung (Kulin Nation clan/Melbourne) story, choreographer Jacob Boehme brings Victorian Indigenous stories to life through the magic of modern dance.
Koorioboree Earth stage - Saturday 11 February and Sunday 12 February at 2pm
Celebrates the special occasion of traditional dance groups from around Victoria coming together to present and share a resilient culture through song, dance, language and ceremony. Join Jindi Worabak, Pooleeyt Marr, One Fire, Wotjobaluk, Damanmu Bangerang and Koori Youth Will Shake Spears on a mass traditional dance off not to be missed.
Art:
Indigenous Writer's Forum BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square - Saturday 11 February, from 11am - 2pm
Hosted by Melbourne’s own Yorta Yorta woman, Kylie Belling, hear from some of Australia’s most talented story tellers. Contemporary poets, songwriters, rappers, playwrights, scriptwriters and novelists will read, perform and talk about their work.
Indigenous Visual Arts BMW Edge Theatre - Sunday 12 February, from 11am - 2pm
Join the conversation about Indigenous Visual Arts as contemporary Indigenous artists discuss arts practice and the blak experience. Politically charged, these sessions will explore medium and challenge perceptions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual arts.
Screen: Cinema 1 and 2, ACMI - Saturday 11 February from 2pm and Sunday 12 February from 12pm. Screenings are free, but bookings must be made through ACMI.
All weekend there will be free films screening at ACMI as Indigenous Australian writers, directors and actors, demonstrate their incredible talents through a diverse range of films presented as part of Blak Nite Cinema.
Films screening include; Three Boys Dreaming which follows three Indigenous boys over four years as they chase the dream of becoming professional AFL footballers; journey into the heart of Aboriginal protest music following the Black Arm Band with Murundak - Songs of Freedom, as they gather of some of Australia's finest Indigenous musicians and take to the road with their songs of resistance and freedom; Our Generation is a powerful documentary about the Australian Aboriginal struggle for land, culture and freedom; The Tall Man which looks at the tragic case of Cameron Doomadgee who was found dead in the Palm Island police station. His injuries were like those of someone who'd been in a fatal car crash, the police claimed he had tripped on a step; and Here I Am – fresh out of prison, beautiful yet complex Karen is a
young woman with a burning desire to turn her life around for good. Plus Toomelah, Mad Bastards, Red Hill and the 1978 film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.
Music:
With a line-up like no other, get down to the Federation Square main stage for three days of sensational music from some of Australia’s finest performers:
Friday, from 6:30pm
Troy Cassar-Daley
Deline Briscoe
Yung Warriors
Saturday, from 2pm - 9:45pm
Dan Sultan
Casey Donovan
Skin
Bart Willoughby
Leah Flanagan
King Kadu & The Sunshine Sisters
Meriki Hood
Radical Son
Sunday, from 12pm - 7pm
Archie Roach
Illana Atkinson
Kutcha Edwards
the Maza Sisters
Lee Morgan
Liz Cavanagh
Dave Arden
Lady Lash
Patrick Mau (aka Maupower)
