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The inaugural RISING festival – a multi-disciplinary art and cultural extravaganza - is set to descend on Naarm (Melbourne) Wednesday, and is being billed as the biggest artistic event hosted in Naarm since the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
Internationally acclaimed and award-winning Naarm-based Gamilaroi artist Reko Rennie will premiere commissioned work Initiation OA , a large-scale three channel video work that speaks to the practice of initiation from an urban Aboriginal context.’
This deeply reflective and visually stunning multi-disciplinary work sees Rennie present modern-day men s initiation, returning to his place of birth in the west of Naarm, ‘making his mark, then leaving again.’
Chris Kenny might not have landed an interview with either Malcolm Turnbull or Kevin Rudd for his Sky News Australia documentary but he is very clear on how he feels about the two former PMs so a chat may have been redundant. “Instead of any self-examination and accepting failure on their own part, they are both out there trying to blame others and it’s not just News Corp,” Kenny told Mediaweek ahead of Men in the Mirror: Rudd & Turnbull on.
If you were lucky enough to stand in the audience at The Espy’s famed Gershwin Room in Melbourne’s St Kilda to watch Archie Roach play songs from
Koorie 1988 and yarn about his days living in the beachside suburb, then you know you witnessed a once-in-a-lifetime, historic performance.
Back in the lead-up to the 1988 bicentennial, Archie was angry. Australia was gearing up to celebrate the bicentennial of 200-years of violence perpetrated against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Living in a flat behind St Kilda’s famed Village Belle Hotel, Archie was recovering from giving up the drink, but instead of picking up a bottle, he picked up a pen and paper.
Ancient Boomerangs: Flying Multi-Tools
For Aboriginal people in Australia the boomerang represents the enduring strength of their culture. A National Museum s of Australia a (NMA) article explains that with more than 250 different language groups there were as many boomerang-making styles across the continent. The oldest Australian boomerangs ever discovered have been dated to about 20,000 years ago and at the most essential cultural levels, boomerangs feature in Aboriginal creation mythology in which mountains, rocks and rivers were formed after ancient ancestors threw boomerangs and spears.
Returning boomerang are thrown above flocks of ducks to simulate an attacking hawk and the fleeing ducks are trapped in nets. However, while we know the boomerang as a flying and returning weapon, like Thor’s hammer , the vast majority of boomerangs in Australia are of the non-returning variety. Skilled boomerang hunters can directly target animals or make the wooden tools ricochet off t