Creating awareness through affecting emotion and effecting change.
This site-specific piece draws links between Indian, Indian diasporic, and Australian Indigenous women, as they explore their complex and long relationships with each other’s cultures and Mother Earth- simultaneously political, poetic, contemporary and timeless. Join these women as they attempt to undo the warp and weft of the binds that constrain their minds and bodies through an embodied process of decolonisation.Conceptualised by Artistic Director Dr Priya Srinivasan and choreographed in collaboration with Gundijtmara creative cultural artist Vicki Couzens, her sister in law/ storyteller/visual artist Gina Bundle and daughter/cultural mentee/ language activist/traditional Aboriginal artist/dancer Yaraan Bundle together with Melbourne based composer/Carnatic singer Uthra Vijay and world renowned Indian dancer Priyadarsini Govind in a collaborative cross cultural event that furthers understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people performed on land that hasn’t been ceded.
Where: Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum
11 Nicholson St, Carlton, Melbourne VIC 3053 Australia
Bookings: online through Museums Victoria
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Museums Victoria
Post: GPO Box 666, Melbourne 3001 Victoria Australia
Bookings & Enquiries: 13 11 02
Website: https://museumsvictoria.com.au/bunjilaka