Indigenous

Community Arts Network WA is looking for community artists to join our network! The community artist listing is a FREE service for community artists across WA. Once you register with your skills, we will contact you via email with opportunities from across WA to facilitate and work on community arts projects.

For more information on the Community Arts Network WA and the ability to sign up to the community artist listing online, visit the CAN WA website or click on ‘Join the network’ from the CAN WA home page.

http://www.canwa.com.au/canwa-resources/join-network/free-artist-listing/
To receive a registration form by mail, please contact CAN WA on 9226 2422 or toll free on 1800 681 021.

Regional and remote communities in Western Australia will have a chance to hear music inspired by the world’s oldest living culture when contemporary Indigenous band Nabarlek tours this September and October.

Country Arts WA, through its Shows On The Go program, will tour the award-winning band to 14 towns across the Kimberley, Goldfields, Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Wheatbelt, Pilbara and the Mid West.

A nine-piece rock group from an outstation called Manmoyi at Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, the band describes its music as ‘Indigenous Roots’, a style which combines rock, reggae, country and gospel, infused with traditional Indigenous elements such as tribal language.

Fuelled by their passion for music and desire to pass on their traditional culture, the band has made its way from humble beginnings (when it formed, the group owned two busted acoustic guitars and a set of upturned flour tins which served as a drum kit) to become one of Australia’s most popular Indigenous bands.

The group has previously performed with the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, Yothu Yindi and has supported Midnight Oil and, most recently, toured nationally supporting Australian music industry stalwarts Silverchair and Powderfinger. The group has earned a swag of awards and accolades including multiple Indigenous Music Awards as well as Deadly and ARIA award nominations.

Over the course of ten years Nabarlek has composed a repertoire of original songs based on traditional Indigenous stories of their past, people, land and culture and has recorded three albums, Munwurrk (Bushfire) in 1999, Bininj Manborth (Blackfella Road) in 2006 and last year released Manmoyi Radio. In addition, the group has released a live album recorded during the band’s 2004 Country Arts WA Regional Tour.

Nabarlek tours to:
Coolgardie          Tuesday 7 October
Leonora              Thursday 9 October
Mount Magnet    Saturday 11 October
Moora                 Wednesday 15 October

For more information: http://www.countryartswa.asn.au/cms/cawa/pages/news/news.html

Laurel is a Nyoongar artist who tells her own story through woodcuts, etchings and photographs.  The prints in Laurel’s exhibition are a reflection of her life, both with her family and mission life; the stories are told with honesty and affectionate humour and build up a unique picture of the reality of life for many indigenous people of Laurel Nannup’s generation. 

To October 26, 2008
Fremantle Prison – Prisoner Art Gallery
Cost: Free
Contact details: 9336 9200

A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition

Culture Warriors surveys and celebrates the rich cultural diversity of contemporary Indigenous art practice across regional, remote and urban Australia. Housed within are the voices of artists working in the here and the now.

Culture Warriors plays tribute to the 'big guns', Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Philip Gudthaykudthay, John Mawurndjul, Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek and Arthur Koo'ekka Pambegan Jnr, whose careers span the 40 years preceding the momentous 1967 (Aboriginal) referendum. Culture Warriors simultaneously showcases the work of 26 emerging and established artists whose strong and often poignant cultural narratives create a vivid visual dialogue of contemporary life for Indigenous Australians.

20 September – 23 November 2008
Perth Cultural Centre, James Street Mall, Perth WA 6000
Ph: 9492 6600, Fax: 9492 6655, admin@artgallery.wa.gov.au | www.artgallery.wa.gov.au
Opening Hours: 10.00am – 5.00pm

Featuring recognised and second generation artists from Utopia and Ikuntji, Warlukurlangu and Papunya Tula art centres, including weaves from Nyoongah bush sculptor Janine McAullay Bott

Opens Friday 6pm 10th October continues to 19th October, 10 – 6pm daily
Atwell Gallery, Cnr Northlake Road & Canning Hwy, Alfred Cove
Cost: Free
Contact: Anna Kanaris | (08) 9336 7787