NSW Events: Responding to Country + 'Utopia' film + Black Diggers + The Shadow King + Yabun Festival

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 13/01/2014 - 6:47pm

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

Click on the links for details of the events ...

New Event: 8 January to 2 February 2014: Grafton, NSW
Responding to Country - Yaegl - Bundjalung - Gumbaingirr
"New works by Regional Aboriginal artists from the Yaegl,
Bundjalung, and Gumbaingirr nations exploring the
delicate associations between country, memory and place."
Event details: http://www.graftongallery.nsw.gov.au/cp_themes/default/page.asp?p=DOC-IR...
Event details: http://www.theblackbook.com.au/whatson_detail.asp?id=1232&si=0&mi=1&yi=2014

New Events: 17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26 & 30 January 2014; 4, 13 February 2014; 1, 12 March 2014 :
Various locations around Australia including:
Sydney, Perth, Jervis Bay, Alice Springs, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Armidale
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
"When I began filming this secret Australia 30 years ago,
a global campaign was under way to end apartheid in South Africa.
Having reported from South Africa, I was struck by the similarity
of white supremacy and the compliance and defensiveness of
liberals. Yet no international opprobrium, no boycotts, disturbed
the surface of "lucky" Australia." John Pilger, Guardian
All screenings of 'Utopia': http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/showings
Event details: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/
Event details: http://johnpilger.com/
'Utopia' film reviews: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/reviews & http://johnpilger.com/articles/utopia-reviews & http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-R...
Respect and Listen Background to 'Utopia' film: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html
WGAR Background to 'Utopia' film: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-W...

Updated Event: Fri 17 January 2014: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
"A premiere in the Sydney indigenous community at Redfern Community Centre"
Introduced by film-maker John Pilger
"With special guests from the film:
* Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM (Utopia community),
* Amy McQuire (editor of Tracker magazine)
* Robert and Selina Eggington (Dumbartung)"
"Performances from Sean Choolburra and Glen Skuthorpe"
"MC Bronwyn Penrith (Human Rights advocate)"
"Utopia, John Pilger’s new film set for release (in the United Kingdom)
in November, examines the worsening oppression of Aboriginal
people in Australia." Paddy Gibson, an associate producer of Utopia
"John Pilger, the renowned investigative journalist and award winning
film maker, has recently completed a new film, Utopia, which deals
with the subjugation of the Aboriginal First Australians." Niall Mulholland
Flyer: http://www.respectandlisten.org/uploads/downloads/Misc/Docos/Utopia-Redf...
Event details: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/screenings/details/3126/9262
Event details: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/
Event details: http://johnpilger.com/
Event details: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-S...
Event details: http://johnpilger.com/articles/a-new-john-pilger-film-utopia-is-now-show...
Event details: http://thestringer.com.au/john-pilger-utopia-launches-in-australia-in-ja...
'Utopia' film reviews: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/reviews & http://johnpilger.com/articles/utopia-reviews & http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-R...
All screenings of 'Utopia': http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/showings
Respect and Listen Background to 'Utopia' film: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html
WGAR Background to 'Utopia' film: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-W...

New Event: 17 to 26 January 2014: Sydney, NSW
Black Diggers
Organisation: Sydney Festival 2014
Venue: Sydney Opera House
"Black Diggers uncovers the contribution of First World War
Aboriginal Diggers, following their exceptional stories from
their homelands to the battlefields of Gallipoli, Palestine and
Flanders."
Event details: http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2014/Theatre-and-Dance/Black-Diggers/
Event details: http://www.theblackbook.com.au/whatson_detail.asp?id=1226&si=0&mi=1&yi=2014

Updated Event: 21-23 January and on Australia Day, 26 January 2014: The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
Australia launch at "Museum of Contemporary Arts (MCA) in Sydney"
"A special post-show conversation featuring John Pilger and a
number of Indigenous representatives from the film will follow
the 26 January Australia Day screening." MCA
"Discover Australia’s hidden past in this Australian premiere
of acclaimed journalist and filmmaker John Pilger’s major feature
documentary Utopia. Reaching behind Australia’s tourist postcard
image this film tracks political treatment of Indigenous Australians
- from land rights to the revisionists - revealing an untold
history of Australia." MCA
Event details: http://www.mca.com.au/events/john-pilgers-utopia-21-jan/8037/
Event details: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/
Event details: http://johnpilger.com/
Event details: http://johnpilger.com/articles/a-new-john-pilger-film-utopia-is-now-show...
Event details: http://thestringer.com.au/john-pilger-utopia-launches-in-australia-in-ja...
'Utopia' film reviews: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/reviews & http://johnpilger.com/articles/utopia-reviews & http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-R...
All screenings of 'Utopia': http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/showings
Respect and Listen Background to 'Utopia' film: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html
WGAR Background to 'Utopia' film: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-W...

New Event: 23 January & 1 March 2014: Jervis Bay Territory; near NSW
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
Booderee National Park
"When I began filming this secret Australia 30 years ago,
a global campaign was under way to end apartheid in South Africa.
Having reported from South Africa, I was struck by the similarity
of white supremacy and the compliance and defensiveness of
liberals. Yet no international opprobrium, no boycotts, disturbed
the surface of "lucky" Australia." John Pilger, Guardian
Event details 23 January 2014: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/screenings/details/3208/9461
Event details 1 March 2014: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/screenings/details/3209/9462
Event details: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/
Event details: http://johnpilger.com/
'Utopia' film reviews: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/reviews & http://johnpilger.com/articles/utopia-reviews & http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-R...
All screenings of 'Utopia': http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/showings
Respect and Listen Background to 'Utopia' film: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html
WGAR Background to 'Utopia' film: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-W...

New Event: 23 to 26 January 2014: Eveleigh, NSW
The Shadow King
Organisation: Sydney Festival 2014
Venue: Carriageworks
"Bringing together the country's finest creative talents
including performers Tom E. Lewis (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith)
and Jimi Bani (Mabo) this majestic and physical reworking of
Shakespeare's King Lear employs the timeless tragedy to speak
to the history and current circumstances of Indigenous Australia."
Event details: http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2014/Theatre-and-Dance/The-Shadow-King/
Event details: http://www.theblackbook.com.au/whatson_detail.asp?id=1227&si=0&mi=1&yi=2014

Event: Sun 26 January 2014: various locations in Australia
Sovereignty Day / Invasion Day / Survival Day / Day of Mourning
"'Australia Day', also known as Survival Day,
Invasion Day and Sovereignty Day:
a commemmoration of the day white settlers
landed in Australia and a day to reflect on the
controversial past of Australia and steer
towards a better society." ATSI Support Portal
"Aboriginal people call it ‘Invasion Day’,
‘Day of Mourning’, ‘Survival Day’ or,
since 2006, ‘Aboriginal Sovereignty Day’.
The latter name reflects that all Aboriginal
nations are sovereign and should be united
in the continuous fight for their rights." Creative Spirits
"Australia Day - No time to celebrate:
Australia Day is traditionally the most racist
day of the year for Aboriginal people.
When people celebrate on January 26,
there is no escaping the fact they are celebrating
the day that one race of people invaded another
race of people’s country and took control of
Aboriginal lands and tried to dominate Aboriginal
people. Invasion Day, as it should be called,
celebrates the dispossession of land, culture,
and way of life of Aborigines." Jay McDonald, GLW
Event details: http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/australia-day-...
Event details: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46475
Event summary: http://www.atsisupport.org.au/BookingRetrieve.aspx?ID=223015

New Event: 26 January 2014: Camperdown, Sydney, NSW
Koori Radio 93.7FM 2LND proudly presents Yabun Festival and Klub Koori
"Koori Radio 93.7FM proudly invites Sydney and Australia
to celebrate the survival of Aboriginal people cultures at the
Yabun Festival in Victoria Park on 26 January each year."
Event details: http://gadigal.org.au/events/
Event details: http://lateralloveaustralia.com/calendar-of-events-2014/new-south-wales/

New Event: 26 January 2014: Kempsey Showground, NSW
Saltwater Freshwater Festival - Kempsey
"The Saltwater Freshwater Festival celebrates and shares
our Aboriginal living culture on the Mid North Coast with
the wider community and commemorates Australia Day
as a positive, inclusive, family day for all communities to enjoy."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://lateralloveaustralia.com/calendar-of-events-2014/new-south-wales/

Updated Event: Tue 28 January 2014: Glebe, Sydney, NSW
Book launch: 'concerned Australians' - In the Absence of Treaty
Edited by Michele Harris
To be launched by Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM Elder from Utopia and Jeff McMullen AM
Venue: Gleebooks
"This is the fifth in a series of books that voice the concerns
of many Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory living
under the Intervention and Stronger Futures legislation."
"In the Absence of Treaty defines how, through changes to
legislation and by engaging Aboriginal peoples in
decision-making without access to independent advice,
control is slipping away from them."
Flyer: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/media/ITAT_launch_flyer_Sydney.pdf
Event details: http://www.gleebooks.com.au/BookingRetrieve.aspx?ID=128394
Event details: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/ITAT_booklaunches.html#Sydney
Event details: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/#ITAT
To pre-order the 'In the Absence of Treaty' book please click here: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/media/ITAT_order_form.doc
WGAR Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention: http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-the-northern-territory-...
WGAR Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws: http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-stronger-futures-new-nt...

Event: 10-14 February 2014: Kensington, Sydney, NSW
The Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) and Oxfam Australia will be holding an
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Youth Human Rights and Advocacy Summit
"Are you a young Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person aged 18-25?
Are you passionate about positive change in your communities?
Are you passionate about the rights of your mob?
Do you want to know more about human rights and why it's important to you?"
"Applications close Friday 6 December 2013."
University of New South Wales
Event details: http://www.snaicc.org.au/news-events/fx-view-article.cfm?loadref=32&id=1255
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/actsnsw/event/33553/
Flyer: http://www.amnesty.org.au/images/uploads/events/2013-108_ATSIP_DTP_Youth...

Event: 13 February 2014: various locations in Australia
National Apology Day
"Commemmoration of the day ex-Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd moved a Motion of Apology to the
Indigenous Peoples in the House of Representatives,
apologising for past laws, policies and practices that
devastated the Indigenous Peoples
(particularly those of the Stolen Generation)."
"The NSDC holds annual celebratory events on the
Anniversary of the Apology (13 February each year)
as a mark of respect of the achievement that was
the apology to the Stolen Generations,
but also as an act of reminder to the broader public,
to the country’s politicians and policy makers,
that sorry is more than a word, and that communities,
Stolen Generations focussed community and peak body
organisations, and government politicians and policy
makers must continue to work together in order
to achieve key outcomes for the Stolen Generations."
Event details: http://www.nsdc.org.au/events-info/the-apology-to-australias-indigenous-...
Event summary: http://www.atsisupport.org.au/BookingRetrieve.aspx?ID=223021

Event: 14 February 2014: Sydney, NSW
Tenth anniversary of TJ Hickey death
Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA)
"Next year, on February 14, will be the 10th anniversary of the
killing of the young Aboriginal man, TJ Hickey, as a consequence
of the pursuit by the then Redfern police. For nine long years,
the Hickey family has been campaigning for justice and for the
proper legal punishment of those directly responsible for TJ’s death."
"We would like to invite you and your organisation to assist both
the Hickey family and ISJA to make this 10th anniversary rally
and march the biggest to date."
Event details: https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/55504

* New Event: 12 March 2014: Armidale, NSW
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
Progressive Cinema; Armidale Club
"Utopia is John Pilger's new feature documentary,
made for the cinema and ITV. Drawing on his long
association with the first people of Australia,
his homeland, Utopia is both an epic portrayal of the oldest
continuous human culture and an investigation into a suppressed
colonial past and rapacious present." Official Utopia website
Event details: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/screenings/details/3207/9460
Event details: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/
Event details: http://johnpilger.com/
'Utopia' film reviews: http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/reviews & http://johnpilger.com/articles/utopia-reviews & http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-R...
All screenings of 'Utopia': http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk/showings
Respect and Listen Background to 'Utopia' film: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html
WGAR Background to 'Utopia' film: http://www.respectandlisten.org/miscellaneous/docos/utopia.html#Utopia-W...