Report to OATSIH | Community Collages
ART INITIATIVE 2010
The Exhibition is now on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/sustainingconnection
The Powerpoint presentation can be downloaded from
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AOS0QEAP
The "promo video" powerpoint can be downloaded from
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QKG1LV1T
SUSTAINING CONNECTIONS ART INITIATIVE 2010
Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation and Swinburne University engaged and provided training for
Aboriginal arts facilitators from a range of urban, regional and remote communities across Queensland
to work with their local Aboriginal community in a 'connecting art' initiative.
Locations with high proportions of Stolen Generation people were prioritized.
Facilitators conducted workshops where Aboriginal people sat together talking, sharing stories and painting images
that connected together to produce a whole group image.
This visual sharing and the overall pattern that emerged provided a rare and powerful experience
for many participants.
These art works speak volumes and demonstrate the cultural innovation possible
when groups come together in respect.
The connective art program provides a safe cultural space where many things
can be shared and well being can be facilitated and sustained through deeper human connections.
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The Sustaining Connections Project
involves the application of a design-based
methodology to produce interconnected art
works within Aboriginal communities.
These artworks will then be brought together in
Brisbane for a major Exhibition event,
photographed and returned after the event.
The process of producing interconnecting art
works will represent the cultural connections of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in
Queensland and provide images and words that
depict and describe the significance of these
connections through the theme.
Link Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation is hosting this initiative with collaboration and support from Swinburne University.
These facillitators will run workshops in 16 Queensland locations including
Brisbane North, Brisbane South, Ipswich, Townsville, Palm Island, Cairns, Mount Isa, Weipa, Bundaberg, Yarrabah, Cunnamulla, Emerald, Cherbourg, Charters Towers, Rockhampton and Mackay.
DALBY WORKSHOP
LUQ Board Member Norm Sheehan and LUQ SEWB Counsellor Mati Mistry went to the final Day of the Art Initiative in Dalby on Friday15th October 2010. The programme was attended by local authorities, media personell as well as local community Elders and community members. The hall was a hive of activity whilst setting up lunch with the laughter of children excited about performing on the day. The Art work was displayed for all to see. Many of the participants performed dance, music and recited poetry in celebration of what had been achieved in the community. Certificates of appreciations were handed out to the Shire council and other organisations assisting the facilitators, as well as all the participants who joined the Art Initiative programme.
The hour programme was entertaining and moving, one Elder stated to Norm that “this programme had bought life back into the community, and that the community was waiting for an opportunity to bring art and music together”. Ann Lawton and Lionel did a fantastic job as facilitators. Ann’s drive was a major contributing factor to the great success of the project as she skillfully engaged many members of the community and the local authorities to support the project.
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ART INITIATIVE REPORT
COMMUNITY COLLAGES
Below are the collages from the individual communities involved in the Link Up / Swinburne University Art Initiative.
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Bundaberg |
Cairns |
Cherbourg |
Ipswich |
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Mount Isa |
Palm Island |
Rockhampton |
Townsville |
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Yarrabah |
Brisbane |
Dalby |
If you have any comments or advice you would like to share with us
please send us an email to contact@qld.link-up.org.au
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Last updated Monday, 06-Jun-2011
