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Photo Me Derby Project

July 28, 2009
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Photo Me Derby Project

Photo Me Derby - now in the Side by Side Gallery The Photo Me Derby project was the first project I was involved with dedicated to collaborative photography in the Kimberley (the northern region of Western Australia). Photo Me Derby was a collaboration between Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation and Side by Side Community Project Consulting, and...

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Casting Light: Theatre scripts of stories of personal experiences of mental illness

June 25, 2009
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Casting Light: Theatre scripts of stories of personal experiences of mental illness

Jenny Savigny has been doing a number of interesting projects in Canberra (Australia’s capital city) for a number of years, using creative methods such as theatre and writing to work with issues to do with mental health. In the past she’s developed and toured performances in schools about experiences of eating disorders, and recently...

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Hopevale visit #3 – digital versions of Milbi

May 19, 2009
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Checkout this little digital story, (Click here) one of a set that John Haviland edited during our visit to Hopevale.  This is the story of the Night Owl, or Bunja, told in Guugu Yimmithir by Tulo Gordon and illustrated by Tulo’s paintings.  Milbi is the Guugu Yimithirr word for Story.  In the mid 70’s...

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Hopevale visit #2

May 1, 2009
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Hopevale visit #2

  Over the past several days we have organised Dad’s old photographs and video from Hopevale into family groups and have been visiting different families to show them what we have. In many ways these images are not all that old, others have pulled out old photos that are kept in the Lutheran Archives...

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Hopevale / Pelican Project Digital Storytelling

April 23, 2009
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Last year I got in contact with Samia Goudie, who has been working with the Pelican Project at Hopevale doing some digital storytelling as part of the bigger Pelican project. In September 2008 the Pelican/Hopevale project ran a camp at Connies Beach near Hopevale, which included making a set of digital stories about the...

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Visit to Hopevale QLD #1

April 23, 2009
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Visit to Hopevale QLD #1

  In the ’70′s and ’80s my parents worked as anthropologists (and linguist) in the Aboriginal community of Hopevale. My father, John Haviland, first visited Hopevale in 1970, coming up as a young linguist to work on a detailed study of the Guugu Yimithirr language. Over the next two decades Mum (Leslie Devereaux) and...

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Images for charities and philanthropy

March 31, 2009
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I have been asked to do a freelance photography job for Caritas Australia – one of the organizations that fund Jalaris Aboriginal Corporations Kids Futures Club project in Derby. The Kids Futures Club is to be the Indigenous Australia story in the 2010 Project Compassion, which Caritas uses to raise funds for their charities...

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Voices from the Cape

March 21, 2009
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Voices from the Cape

  Community Prophets has been getting a lot of press this month for their Voices from the Cape project, which worked with children in the Arukun community in Cape York Queensland in a participatory video, animation and music project in 2008.

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