Join us this NAIDOC Week for the launch of Yoonggama Ma Nga: A First Nations Transdisciplinary Research Initiative.
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO has a string of accolades for her opera performances, and as a composer and artistic director. She leads Short Black Opera, which provides training and opportunities for emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musical artists. In this keynote we will hear about her journey and her aspirations for the First Nations academy.
Yoonggama Ma Nga is an initiative to build the First Nations academy. It is a centre for land-based learning where First Nations Knowledge Systems are privileged and community research, training and learning needs are prioritised. The initial focus areas for Yoonggama Ma Nga are art, performance, language and culture, and the dedicated hub at RMIT provides a physical meeting point for First Nations scholars, from pre-doctoral candidates to senior academics.
Founded by Dr Vicki Couzens, RMIT Research Fellow, and Suzi Hutchings, Swinburne University Professor, Yoonggama Ma Nga is an RMIT initiative led by Vicki Couzens. Links are also being built with Swinburne University of Technology.
Refreshments will be provided and there will be opportunities for networking at this event.
'Creative Antarctica' is a multifaceted exhibition featuring Australian artists and writers who have been influenced by their observations and experiences of the Far South.
'Surging through exits when the bell goes' is a design-led research project that examines how the aesthetics of high school environments and digital platforms shape the hidden curriculum of contemporary education. It traces how physical architectures of control have evolved into the visual and behavioural architectures of digital systems, focusing on behaviour monitoring systems.
Formed through slow, meditative processes of hand-stitching, wrapping and dyeing, 'Inheritance' weaves together Chowdhury’s lived experiences as a first-generation Bangladeshi-Australian artist.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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