Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Brisbane and Queensland 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

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Event: Ongoing: Cherbourg Aboriginal community, S-E Qld
The Ration Shed Museum
"When our Elders were moved off the land and taken to
Cherbourg they were cut off from their traditional sources
of food and were given weekly rations of mainly flour,
sugar, tea, sago, rice, split peas and meat. The rations

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 1 June to 7 October 2013: South Bank, Qld
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home:
Contemporary Art from Black Australia
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
"This exhibition will be the Gallery's largest ever exhibition
of contemporary Indigenous Australian art. It will feature
works by Indigenous Australian artists from across the country."
"'My Country. I Still Call Australia Home' examines the
associations and interpretations Aboriginal and Torres Strait

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Event: 20 August 2013: South Bank, Qld
Jedda: A celebration of Charles Chauvel
"Come along to a free screening of Charles Chauvel’s most
infuential film, Jedda, to honour the Australian icon’s recent
induction into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.
Jedda (1955), filmed in central Australia, tells the story of
Aboriginal teenage girl Jedda who is raised by a white
squatter family and desperately wants to learn about her
Aboriginal culture."

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Event: Sat 13 July - Sun 11 August 2013: South Brisbane, Qld
Manuwangku - Under the Nuclear Cloud
Photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
Opening night on 13 July 2013
Venue: Queensland Centre for Photography
"Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud is a
series of photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
presenting the community and country around Muckaty,
120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek in the NT."
"For over five years this area has been the focus