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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 writing, creative prose, drama, the visual arts, script-writing (screenplay or Play (theatre), for theatre) and poetry. The award is sponsored by Professor Emeritius Bernard Smith (art historian), 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 language, Warlpiri, "rdaka" means "hand". It has been awarded since 1991. Past winners Past winners include: *Natalie Harkin for the poetry collection ''Archival-Poetics'', 2020 *Steven McGregor and David Tranter for the screenplay of ''Sweet Country (2017 film), Sweet Country'', 2017 *Yhonnie Scarce for he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne (colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public university, public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Its Parkville Campus (University of Melbourne), main campus is located in Parkville, Victoria, Parkville, an inner suburb north of Melbourne central business district, Melbourne's central business district, with several other campuses located across the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Incorporated in the 19th century by the State of Victoria, colony of Victoria, the University of Melbourne is one of Australia's six sandstone universities and a member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, Universitas 21, Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University's McDonnell International Scholars Academy, and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Since 1872, many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Country (2017 Film)
''Sweet Country'' is a 2017 Australian drama film, directed by Warwick Thornton. Set in 1929 in the sparsely populated outback of Central Australia (before the formation of the Northern Territory) and based on a series of true events, it tells a harsh story against the backdrop of a divided society (between the British settlers and Aboriginal Australians) in the interwar period in Australia. It was first screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival in September 2017 and after winning the Special Jury Prize award there, went on to win several awards internationally. Plot Sam Kelly is a middle-aged Aboriginal farm worker in the outback of Central Australia some time after the end of the First World War. His employer, Fred Smith, a kindly preacher, agrees to lend Sam, his wife, Lizzie, and his niece, Lucy, to a bitter, abusive, and alcoholic veteran of World War I named Harry March on a neighbouring farm to renovate the latter's paddock f ... [...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 Rachel Naden and an English father John Gilbert. 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 Condobolin in New South Wales and at age seven he and his siblings were orphaned. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mudrooroo
Colin Thomas Johnson (21 August 1938 – 2019), better known by his nom de plume Mudrooroo, and also published under the names Mudrooroo Narogin and Mudrooroo Nyoongah, was an Australian novelist, poet, essayist and playwright. He is best known for his first novel, '' Wild Cat Falling'', which became a best-seller after its publication in 1965. His many works are centred on Aboriginal Australian characters and topics; however, there was doubt cast upon his claims to have Aboriginal ancestry. Early life Colin Thomas Johnson was born on 21 August 1938 on a farm near Narrogin, in Western Australia. His father died before he was born, and he was separated from his mother shortly before his ninth birthday. After spending seven years at Clontarf Boys' Town, he was turned out of the institution at the age of 16. He turned to burglary and served two stints in Fremantle Prison, where he began writing literature. After leaving prison, he travelled to India and London, before set ... [...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 A ... [...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 Indigenous Performing Arts 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 in 2002 for ''Aliwa!'' (alongside Jane Harrison for ''Stolen''). ''Aliwa!'' was also shortlisted for the script category of the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an annual book award provided by the Government of Western Australia, and managed by the State Library of Western Australia. History and format Annua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivienne Cleven
Vivienne Cleven (born 1968) is an Indigenous Australian fiction author of the Kamilaroi people. Her writing includes the novels ''Bitin' Back'' and ''Her Sister's Eye''. Early life and education Born in 1968 in Surat, Queensland, Vivienne Cleven grew up in the homeland of her Aboriginal heritage (Kamilaroi Nation). Leaving school at 13, she worked with her father as a jillaroo: building fences, mustering cattle, and working various jobs on stations throughout Queensland and New South Wales. Career In 2000, with the manuscript ''Just Call Me Jean'', Cleven entered and won the David Unaipon Award for Unpublished Indigenous Writer. Re-titled 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 Award for Fiction. Cleven adapted ''Bitin' Back'' into a play script, which was staged by Brisbane's Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Theatre Company in September 2003. ''Her Sister' ... [...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 child ... [...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, and known for the 2013 film '' Mystery Road'', its sequel '' Goldstone'' (2016), and the 2023 mystery-crime film ''Limbo''. 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 ... [...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 in 2013, and was shortlisted for Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. Premise ''The Swan Book'' is set in a dystopian future shaped by the impacts of climate change in which Aboriginal people still live under the Intervention in the north. They face both cultural and environmental challenges, which pervade the novel's landscape regularly. The central character, Oblivia, a young Aboriginal woman, grapples with the enduring traumas of her past and establishes a unique bond with swans. Pulled from a tree as a child after having been lost and gang raped In scholarly literature and criminology, gang rape, also called serial gang rape, party rape, group rape, or multiple perpetrator rape,Ullman, S. E. (2013). 11 Multiple perpetrator rape victimization. Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator ..., she is raised by a E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright (born 25 November 1950) is an Aboriginal Australian writer. She is best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel '' Carpentaria''. She was the first writer to win the Stella Prize twice, in 2018 for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" Tilmouth and in 2024 for the novel '' Praiseworthy''. ''Praiseworthy'' also won her the Miles Franklin Award in 2024, making her the first person to win the Stella Prize and Miles Franklin Award in the same year. Wright has published four novels, one biography, and several works of nonfiction. Her work also appears in anthologies and journals. Early life and education Alexis Wright was born on 25 November 1950 in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. She is an Aboriginal Australian woman of the Waanyi nation in the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Her father, a white cattleman, died when she was five years old. She grew up in Cloncurry with her mother and grandmother. Activism Wright ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
