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Elizabeth Cameron Dalman and Australian modern dance - Australia's Culture Portal

Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM is known as the founder of modern Australian dance. Elizabeth Cameron Dalman's foundation of the Australian Dance Theatre led to a flourishing of public programs and workshops in modern dance techniques and improvisation. The...

Crossing the Great Dividing Range—surveying an ancient land - Australia's Culture Portal

Ernest Revell, Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, c. In March 1812, the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore Jervis Bay, to determine a possible inland route back to Port Jackson. Other explorers, such as Hume and Hove...

Indigenous Australian architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

Traditional Indigenous architecture was domestic - across a range of well crafted and technologically designed shelters and residential camps. Courtesy of Queensland Museum and Aboriginal Environments Research Centre. Annual base camp structures, whether...

Australian Indigenous ceremony - Australia's Culture Portal

For example, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders these ceremonies bring together all aspects of their culture - song, dance, body decoration, sculpture and painting. Anny Nungarrayi (centre) with other Warlpiri women perform a traditional dance dur...

The Dreaming - Australia's Culture Portal

Aboriginal dancers telling Dreamtime stories at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony. The Dreaming for Australian Indigenous people (sometimes referred to as the Dreamtime or Dreamtimes) is when the Ancestral Beings moved across the land and created life...

Papunya Tula art movement of the Western Desert - Australia's Culture Portal

The emergence of 'dot' paintings by Indigenous men from the western deserts of Central Australia in the early 1970s has been called the greatest art movement of the twentieth century. Papunya was described as a 'centralised government settlement establis...

Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal

While tools varied by group and location, Aboriginal people all had implements such as knives, scrapers, axe-heads, spears, various vessels for eating and drinking, and digging sticks. Aboriginal people achieved two world firsts with stone technology. T...

Western Australian Women Indigenous artists - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of Mangkaja Arts. Women have different Dreaming stories and law to men, and many of the women artists experienced pre-contact traditional life. The first wave of Aboriginal women artists in Western Australia includes Queenie McKenzie, Madi...

Australian Indigenous cultural heritage - Australia's Culture Portal

It also contains links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are complex and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous communities keep their cultural heritage alive by passin...

Modern Australian poetry - Australia's Culture Portal

Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...

Zoos in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...

Australian folklore - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...

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Adjahdura Land   (more info)

Adjahdura Land, provides insight into the traditional owners of this country, of their rich cultural heritage, Dreaming stories and traditions - and the issues they are facing today. Information available about Aboriginal cultural tours.

Warmun Art Centre - Contemporary Aboriginal Art   (more info)

The Warmun Art Centre, at Turkey Creek, via Kununurra in Western Australia, provides artists of the Warmun community with economic independence and the opportunity to share their Gija culture and country with visitors. The Centre operates as a studio and

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Didgeridoo Hut and Art Gallery, Darwin NT - Dreaming story for Ancestors of Balmawuy and Ganalbingu clans   (website Didgeridoo Hut and Art Gallery )

These long neck turtles represent Balmawuy and Ganalbingu clans, and it is part of their ceremonial beliefs and values which they then perform in practical manner and as being proud of their ceremony. Two long neck turtles travelled together (male and fe...

Music Australia - Jessie's dream, a story of the 'Relief of Lucknow'.   (website MusicAustralia )

Jessie's dream, a story of the 'Relief of Lucknow'. [music] / written by Grace Campbell ; composed by John Blockley. Lucknow (India) -- History -- Siege, 1857 -- Songs and music. ...

Music Australia - Jessie's dream, a story of the 'Relief of Lucknow'.   (website MusicAustralia )

Jessie's dream, a story of the 'Relief of Lucknow'. [music] / written by Grace Campbell ; composed by John Blockley. Lucknow (India) -- History -- Siege, 1857 -- Songs and music. ...

NMA Collections Search - Dreaming Story at Warlugulong (Warlukulangu) by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

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Art Gallery Guide : Katrina Manton Gallery / _Anengkerr Angkety - Dreaming Stories_ Jack Cooke Ngala, Raymond Walters Japanangka   (website Art Gallery Guide Australia )

Katrina Manton Gallery >325 Montague Street >Albert Park >VIC 3205 >0422 363 676 >http://www.katrinamantongallery.com Reductive Curated by David Hagger.Justin Andrews (Charles Nodrum Gallery), Sydney Ball (Charles Nodrum Gallery), Cathy Blanchflower (Kar...

Art Gallery Guide : Logan Art Gallery / _Great Australian Dreams and Other Stories_   (website Art Gallery Guide Australia )

Logan Art Gallery >Corner of Wembley Road and Jacaranda Avenue >Logan Central >QLD 4114 >07 3412 5519 >http://www.logan.qld.gov.au/LCC/logan/artgallery The Wallpaper Project Rob MacHaffie, Anne Wallace (in collaboration Aaron Hill), Lisa Radford, Simon M...