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Heartwood Siteworks

Heartwood Siteworks

Transformative Arts, Culture, Science

  • About Heartwood
    • Introducing the Heartwood Directors
      • Iris Curteis
      • Deirdre Korobacz
      • Konrad Korobacz
      • Hamish Mackay
      • Gillian Rogers
  • CURRENT EVENT: WELL OF TEARS; VISIONS OF HOPE
    • Well of Tears; Visions of Hope – Presenters
    • Event Format: Yarning Circles
  • Bookings & Donations
  • Contact
  • Past Events
    • Water Yarning
      • Water Yarning Presenters
      • Water Yarning Programme
    • Creative Spirit
      • Creative Spirit Presenters
      • Creative Spirit Event Programme
    • LISTENING TO COUNTRY
      • Listening to Country Presenters
      • Listening to Country; Understanding Sovereignty of Indigenous Knowledge
      • Listening to Country Event Programme

Creative Spirit Event Programme

Please note, while we are providing an event programme, this programme can only be an outline. You will be experiencing the goorie way of knowledge sharing. As all good storytellers and teachers know, the teller responds in a living way to the immediate needs of the moment and to a sense of where the listeners are. Open yourself to new experiences and flow …

Friday 259.00 - 11.00

Welcome; Ngambri Elder

Introduction to Yarning Circle Protocol
11.00 - 11.15

Tea Break
11:15 – 1:15

Arrernte & Kaytetye:
Central Australia’s Interconnected law - Desert law skin system
1:15 – 2:15

Lunch
2:15 – 4:15

Education yarning cross cultural 'healing teaching' and learning - across generations
4:15 – 4:30

Tea Break
4:30 – 6:00

Arabunna Nation, Lake Eyre,
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott: my country, my role,
the destruction
to sacred sites;
lack
of consultation
7:00 – 9:00

Bundjalung Elder,
Uncle Lewis Walker

Storytelling,
Music
Saturday 26SURVIVAL DAY
Rally and March
Assembling at Garema Place, Canberra City from 9.00 am (due to heat)discussions on topics like black deaths in custody, brutalisation of black youth in detention and mining corporations on sacred sites, etc. followed by a march across Commonwealth Bridgeto the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of Old Parliment House where a smoking ceremony will take place
Sunday 279:00 – 11:00

Worimi, Dale Kerwin,

Aqua Nullius
11.00 - 11.15

Tea Break
11:15 – 1:15

Arrernte & Kaytetye
Women and Men;
Central Australia’s Interconnected law - Desert law skin system
1.15 - 2.15

Lunch
2:15 – 4:15

Urlpmerre Arenye, Anyume Kemarre - Wise Man
Lightning Child -
Uncle John & Mpetyane - Aunty Mali Cavanagh
4.15 - 4.30

Tea Break
4:30 – 6:00

Wandianwanderian Murramurrang Tomikin
Uncle Paul Jrumpinjinbah Mcleod
7.00 - 9.00

Storytelling, Music
Monday 289:00 – 11:00

Arrernte Elder,
Uncle Pelterre Chris Tomlins
Tea break11:15 – 1:15

Arabunna Nation, Lake Eyre,
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott,
About the structure
of my old people
of the
Lake Eyre area
Lunch2:15 – 4:15

Urlpmerre Arenye,
Mpetyane - Aunty Mali Cavanagh:
Njorda – A Kin and Skin Workshop,
with intro to Arrernte and bush medicine making
Tea Break4:30 – 6.00

Namidge Ngambri Elder
Shane Mortimer,
Allodial Title
7.00 – 9.00

Seeds and Actions

Closing yarning