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Kate Challis RAKA Award
The Kate Challis RAKA Award is an arts award worth , awarded annually by the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia to Indigenous Australian creative artists. It is awarded in a five-year cycle, each year in a different area of the arts: creative prose, drama, the visual arts, script-writing (screenplay or for theatre) and poetry. The award is sponsored by Professor Emeritius Bernard Smith, art and cultural historian, in honour his late wife, Kate Challis, who was earlier known as Ruth Adeney. "RAKA" is an acronym for "Ruth Adeney Koori Award". In the Pintupi language, "raka" means "five", and in Warlpiri, "rdaka" means "hand". It has been awarded since 1991. Past winners Past winners include: *Steven McGregor and David Tranter for the screenplay of '' Sweet Country'', 2017 * Yhonnie Scarce for her artwork of blown glass, ''Remember Royalty'', 2018 *Alexis Wright for her novel ''The Swan Book'' (2016) *Ivan Sen for the film script for '' Toomelah'', 2011 * Vivienne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of Melbourne's central business district, with several other campuses located across Victoria. Incorporated in the 19th century by the colony of Victoria, the University of Melbourne is one of Australia's six sandstone universities and a member of the Group of Eight, Universitas 21, Washington University's McDonnell International Scholars Academy, and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Since 1872, many residential colleges have become affiliated with the university, providing accommodation for students and faculty, and academic, sporting and cultural programs. There are ten colleges located on the main campus and in nearby suburbs. The university comprises ten separate academic units and is associated with numerou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yhonnie Scarce
Yhonnie Scarce (born 1973) is an Australian glass artist whose work is held in major Australian galleries. She is a descendant of the Kokatha and Nukunu people of South Australia, and her art is informed by the effects of colonisation on Indigenous Australia, in particular Aboriginal South Australians. She has been active as an artist since completing her first degree in 2003, and teaches at the Centre of Visual Art in the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Early life and education Scarce was born in Woomera South Australia, and lived an itinerant early life, living in Adelaide, Hobart and Alice Springs, before settling in Adelaide from 1991/2. She is of the Kothatha people of the Lake Eyre region (north of Woomera) and Nukunu people of the southern Eyre Peninsula After leaving school, Scarce worked first in administration at the University of Adelaide, then as a trainee at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in the visual arts department. While doing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Gilbert (author)
Kevin John Gilbert (10 July 1933 – 1 April 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian author, activist, artist, poet, playwright and printmaker. A Wiradjuri man, Gilbert was born on the banks of the Lachlan River in New South Wales. Gilbert was the first Aboriginal playwright and printmaker. He was an active human rights defender and was involved in the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972 as well as various protests to advocate for Aboriginal Australian sovereignty. Gilbert won the 1978 National Book Council prize for writers, for ''Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert'' (1977). Early life Gilbert was the youngest of eight children, born on 10 July 1933 to a Wiradjuri mother and an Irish/English father. _He_was_born__on_the_bank_of_the_Kalara/_Lachlan_River_just_outside_Condobolin.html" ;"title="/ref> He was born on the bank of the Kalara/ Lachlan River just outside Condobolin">/ref> He was born on the bank of the Kalara/ Lachlan River just outside Condo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mudrooroo
Colin Thomas Johnson (21 August 1938 – 20 January 2019), better known by his nom de plume Mudrooroo, was a novelist, poet, essayist and playwright. He has been described as one of the most enigmatic literary figures of Australia and his many works are centred on Australian Aboriginal characters and Aboriginal topics. Also known as Mudrooroo Narogin and Mudrooroo Nyoongah. ''Narogin'' after the Indigenous spelling for his place of birth, and ''Nyoongah'' after the name of the people from whom he claimed descent. ''Mudrooroo'' means ''paperbark'' in the Bibbulmun language group spoken by the Noongar. Biography Born Colin Johnson, Mudrooroo was separated from his mother (his father had died before he was born) shortly before his ninth birthday. After spending seven years at Clontarf Boys' Town, he was turned out of the institution at the age of sixteen. He turned to burglary and served two stints in Fremantle Prison, where he began writing literature. After leaving prison, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Juli
__NOTOC__ Mabel Juli (born 1931) is a contemporary artist from the East Kimberley in Western Australia. Early life Juli was born in 1931 or 1932 at Five Mile, near Moola Boola Station. Her traditional name is Wiringoon and her traditional country is Barlinyin, also known as Springvale, south of Warmun. Career Juli commenced painting in the 1980s after observing and being encouraged by artists Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie. She reports that she "started thinking about my country, I gave it a try." She is best known for her striking black and white paintings of ''Garnkiny doo Wardel'' (Moon and Star) based on the Ngarranggarni story passed down from her parents, but focussing on Ngarranggarniny which is when the Dreaming ancestors laid down and became the landscape of the East Kimberley in Western Australia. An innovator, she also extended the range of use of traditional colours of the Gija palette to include pink, purple and green. Juli continues to work at the Warmun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliwa!
''Aliwa!'' is a play by Indigenous Australian playwright Dallas Winmar, and published by Currency Press in 2002. Plot Based on a true story of a mother who tries to keep her three daughters from being taken away by officials after the death of her husband. It was later presented by Company B, was directed by Neil Armfield, starred Ningali Lawford, Kylie Belling and Deborah Mailman and was introduced by one of the sisters the play is based on, Aunty Dot Collard. First Production Aliwah! was first produced by Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre at the Subiaco Theatre, Perth, on 26 July 2000, with the following cast: *Mum / Alice, Dot, Reserve Boy: Rachael Maza *Judith, School Teacher: Irma Woods *Ethel, Native Welfare Officer: Kylie Farmer *Director, Lynette Narkle *Designer, Tish Oldham *Sound and original music, David Milroy *Lighting Designer, Mark Howett Awards ''Aliwa!'' won the 2002 Kate Challis RAKA Award and was shortlisted for the 2002 Western Australian Premier's Book Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Winmar
Dallas Winmar is a Western Australian writer who first worked with Company B in 2001 on the staging of her play ''Aliwa!''. This play was first showcased in Perth by Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre and developed at the Australian National Playwrights Conference in 1999 and 2000. She was commissioned by Kooemba Jdarra Theatre Company to write ''Skin Deep'' for their 2000 program. ''Yibiyung'', her third play, was workshopped at the Australian National Playwrights Conference in 2006 and the PlayWriting Australia National Script Workshop in 2007. Dallas was jointly awarded the Kate Challis RAKA Award The Kate Challis RAKA Award is an arts award worth , awarded annually by the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia to Indigenous Australian creative artists. It is awarded in a five-year cycle, each year in a different area of the arts: ... in 2002 for ''Aliwa!'' (alongside Jane Harrison for ''Stolen''). ''Aliwa!'' was also shortlisted for the script category of the We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivienne Cleven
Vivienne Cleven (born 1968) is an Indigenous Australian fiction author and writer of the Gamilaraay, Kamilaroi people. Her writing includes the novels ''Bitin’ Back'' and ''Her Sister’s Eye''. Early life Born in 1968 in Surat, Queensland, Cleven grew up in the homeland of her Aboriginal heritage (Gamilaraay, Kamilaroi Nation). Leaving school at thirteen, she worked with her father as a Jillaroo (trainee), jillaroo: building fences, mustering cattle, and working various jobs on stations throughout Queensland and New South Wales. Writing career In 2000, with the manuscript ''Just Call Me Jean'', Cleven entered and won the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writers. Retitled and published the following year, ''Bitin’ Back'' was shortlisted in the 2002 Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award and in the 2002 South Australian Premier's Awards, South Australian Premier’s Award for Fiction. Cleven adapted ''Bitin’ Back'' into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toomelah (film)
''Toomelah'' is a 2011 Australian drama film written and directed by Ivan Sen and starring Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards, and Michael Connors. It was shown at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on 11 May in the Un Certain Regard program, where it received a two-minute long standing ovation. The film's story takes place in Toomelah Station, New South Wales. Plot Daniel is a ten-year-old boy living in Toomelah, NSW. After being suspended from school for threatening to stab a classmate with a pencil and finding there is little to do in his town, he decides he wants to be a part of the gang controlling the drug trade in his township, so he decides to help Linden, a well-known local drug dealer. Bruce, one of Linden's rivals, is released from prison and a turf war erupts. Meanwhile, Daniel faces problems at school and in his family, such as his mother's addictions, the estrangement of his alcoholic father and the return of his aunt who was forcibly removed from the mission as a chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Sen
Ivan Sen (born 1972) is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker. He is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer, as well as an editor, composer and sound designer. He is co-founder and director of Bunya Productions. Early life Ivan Sen was born in 1972 in Nambour, Queensland, the second child of Donella and Duro Sen. His mother Donella belongs to the Gamilaroi nation of Northern New South Wales, and Duro was born in Croatia to a German father and Hungarian mother. Before moving to Tamworth, New South Wales four years after Sen was born, in his mother's efforts to escape domestic violence, the family would regularly visit her birthplace, Toomelah. The Aboriginal community there was the last destination of three forced relocations of the Gamilaroi. Founded in 1937 by the New South Wales government, Toomelah turned from reserve into mission, but is also called a station, and has a history of precarious conditions and harming policies. Sen's mother herself was taken away at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swan Book
''The Swan Book'' is the third novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with critical acclaim when it was published, and was short-listed for Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. Plot Introduction ''The Swan Book'' is set in the future, with Aboriginal people still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows a girl who is pulled from a tree as a child after having been lost and gang-raped, and how she grows up raised by a European immigrant and seemingly guided by swans. After the death of her guardian, she is betrothed to a boy who grows up to become the first Indigenous President of Australia (Prime Minister has been abandoned in this future), and later marries him, despite retaining a childlike mind even as an adult. Awards and nominations * 2014 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright (born 25 November 1950) is a Waanyi (Aboriginal Australian) writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel '' Carpentaria'' and the 2018 Stella Prize for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" Tilmouth. As of 2020, Wright has produced three novels, one biography, and several works of prose. Her work also appears in anthologies and journals. Origin and activism Alexis Wright is a land rights activist from the Waanyi nation in the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Wright's father, a white cattleman, died when she was five years old and she grew up in Cloncurry, Queensland, with her mother and grandmother. When the Northern Territory Intervention proposed by the Howard Government in mid-2007 was introduced, Wright delivered a high-profile 10,000-word speech, sponsored by International PEN. Literary career Alexis Wright's first book, the novel ''Plains of Promise'', published in 1997, was nominated for several l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
