REDWatch - Redfern Eveleigh Darlington Waterloo Watch Group http://www.redwatch.org.au These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 7. The Redfern Red Sox Baseball Day http://www.redwatch.org.au/Events/rrs100731 New Baseball Club The Redfern Red Sox is running a try baseball day at National Centre for Indigenous Excellence 180 George St Redfern on the 31st July from 10am till noon for children 5 and over to try baseball free of charge (for the day)followed by free sausage sizzle. Children who enjoy the sport will have the opportunity to join the club and play in a summer baseball competition against other clubs. Every participating child receives a prize. No publisher REDWatch Launch 2010-07-29T02:22:23Z Event GhosTrain - Nigel Helyer in residence. http://www.redwatch.org.au/Events/per100313 Meet the artist and discuss his ongoing project GhosTrain. Nigel Helyer is beginning research for the third stage of a project called GhosTrain with Performance Space @ CarriageWorks. In order to conduct research for this project and collect the individual and myriad stories and historical audio material to make the project a rich and informative experience for members of the public, we are inviting you to join us, so that we can explain the project and invite your expertise and contribution. Please RSVP to becd@performancespacecom.au as refreshments will be served. Please pass on to your railway and railway heritage networks as we do not have contacts for all of the individuals that we would like to invite. We are steadily building a contact list.

We have applied for funding for this stage of the project and are waiting for the results.

GhosTrain is focused upon the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, once the largest employer in New South Wales, and in its day a both a centre of technological innovation and of working class political organisation. The site was closed by the State government some decades ago and has recently been repurposed as a cultural zone, mirroring the redevelopment of its sister site (the Redfern  Locomotive Workshops) as a Technology park. GhosTrain is designed in three stages and aims to recognise the importance of the soundscape that once characterised the site and endeavours to re-instate specific elements of its acoustic ecology and the memories contained within oral history.

The first phase, a series of five short broadcasts produced at ABC Radio National (Sydney) established contact with a range of ex-railway workers and interlaced their oral histories with commentaries from historians, architects and the like ~ this was in effect an early research phase, collecting material and getting under the complex skin of the site. These audio files can still be listened to on the ABC’s POOL site: http://pool.org.au/users/ghostrain

The second phase, you will be able to hear each day at 1pm at CarriageWorks until 17 March and 13 May – 5 June.

The third stage of this project will result in a permanent audio tour and digital audio cartography of the CarriageWorks site, which we hope to extend to the Eveleigh Locomotive side of the tracks.

We are submitting a Heritage Project Nomination to the RWA for the third stage. We will also be organising another meeting in June 2010, to give us enough lead-time to get the word out comprehensively to the many people involved in the history of this site.

In the meantime, it would be great if you could join us for the afternoon tea, so that we can discuss this evolving project and seek your input into it

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need more information.

Best regards,

Bec

Associate Director PERFORMANCE SPACE

 

]]> No publisher REDWatch Launch 2010-03-10T04:58:10Z Event The Last Hundred Yards http://www.redwatch.org.au/Events/090902lhy The world premier of the film. 4 elders bare their hearts and share experiences that shaped them. No publisher REDWatch Launch 2009-08-25T03:26:09Z Event Deadly Tales http://www.redwatch.org.au/Events/dt BBQ and launch of Deadly Tales children's TV series Thirteen young indigenous kids from the Kelso Primary School are linking with
thirteen indigenous kids from Our Lady of Mt Carmel Primary School in Waterloo,
Sydney to create a pilot episode of a brand new children’s television series being produced by Sydney-based film company, Giant Vision.
“Deadly Tales is a series where two groups of indigenous kids – one from the city and one from the country – write, direct, shoot and perform in their own ‘Deadly Tale’ short film”, says Giant Vision producer, Chris Hobart. “In each episode we see all the excitement and drama of the two short films being created by the kids, reaching a climax with the screening of the finished films at huge celebration events with the two communities involved.”
Already the project is causing a lot of excitement within the local indigenous
community. Wiradjuri Elder, Gloria ‘Dindima’ Rogers, is enthusiastic in her support.
“The aboriginal students being given the opportunity to tell, act and film their ‘Deadly Tale’ is an exciting and empowering venture, not just for the students involved but for our indigenous and wider community as well.”
Metro Cinemas in Bathurst will host the gala premiere of the short films in a special screening on Saturday 30 August 2008 at 2pm. This event is free and open to the whole community. “It’s a fantastic project where the community can get involved and see their children’s achievements on the big screen”, says Metro’s manager, Fiona Miller.
The writing and filming of their part of the project will take place at Kelso Primary School from August 18 to 22.
Contact: Mark Finlay,
Giant Vision Ph 0413 764760
Please contact Mark to discuss the film team’s availability for photo opportunities and interviews.

]]> No publisher REDWatch Launch 2008-08-13T06:37:49Z Event "This is Our Country Too" http://www.redwatch.org.au/Events/fil80813 First public screening in Australia of "This is Our Country Too" Director/Producer: Ishmahil Blagrove, Jr. Edited by: Catherine Arend With guest speakers: Walter Shaw, from Mt Nancy town Camp in Alice Springs Shane Phillips, Redfern community leader $10/5 (suggested donation)

 

Duration: 59 minutes
Presented by Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney

A powerful exposé of Australia's hidden apartheid.
From the makers of With or Without Fidel, Blood Diamonds and Bang Bang In Da Manor comes a brave new documentary that delves beyond Australia's reputation of sun, surf and sand to reveal a nation ruptured by a deep racial divide and contested history. Taking the controversial 2007 Northern Territory Intervention as its starting point, This is Our Country Too is a hard-hitting investigation into Australia's woeful treatment of indigenous peoples, and a rare depiction of their unrelenting struggle for justice, equality and self-determination.

Featuring interviews with prominent Aboriginal leaders, Pat Turner, niece of 'Australia'a Mandela,' Charlie Perkins, Pat Dodson, spearhead of the reconciliation movement, actor/artist David Gulpilil and Jenny Macklin, Minister of Indigenous Affairs, This is Our Country Too puts the world's focus on Australia's indigenous people's forgotten plight and advances the question: How will Australia reconcile with indigenous people?

This preview screening will be accompanied by speeches and Q+A with Walter Shaw, a young Aboriginal activist from Mt Nancy town camp, a 'prescribed area' in Alice Springs and Shane Phillips, a community leader from Redfern, both of whom are featured in the film.

Exactly 6 months since the Rudd Government's apology to the stolen generations, the event comes at a crucial time in Aboriginal affairs. Despite the "review" of the NT intervention currently being conducted, Minister Jenny Macklin continues to roll out punitive measures, recently extending the welfare quarantine by another year in the 4 communities first brought under the scheme. With thousands of people already displaced through the intervention, the federal government have also made clear their intention to refuse services to communities they consider "unviable", leaving many fearing imminent dispossession.

Come and see the first Australian screening of this important documentary and join in the discussion after the film.

Contact Monique 0415410558 or Sarah 0409148226 from Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS) with inquiries about the Sydney screening.

]]> No publisher REDWatch Launch 2008-07-21T00:17:06Z Event The Cook Garden Launch http://www.redwatch.org.au/Events/cgl101013 The UNSW Community Development Project and the Cook Gardeners would like to invite you to the launch of the new Cook Garden. The gardeners would like you to join them in launching the new garden to say thank you to everyone who made it possible and celebrate with a light lunch in the garden. RSVP: FOR CATERING No publisher REDWatch Launch 2010-09-16T05:56:11Z Event WordUP! Book Launch http://www.redwatch.org.au/Events/wprd Dr Anita Heiss, a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales and one of Australia's most prolific and well-known authors of Indigenous literature, will be presenting children from the wordUP! literacy program that recently ran at The Yurungai Learning Centre community based project inspired to help close the gap in Indigenous disadvantage. with their books at the book launch party, which takes place on December 11th at The Factory Community Centre in Waterloo. The presentation of the books will follow a traditional dance performed by children that attend The Yurungai Learning Centre. Recent studies have shown that by the age of 15, more than one-third of Australia's Indigenous students do not have the skills and knowledge in reading literacy needed to meet real-life challenges.

 This year Social Work Students at the University of New South Wales were given the broad task of creating a project related to the Close The Gap campaign. A small group of students collaborated to create the wordUP! literacy program.

 The program targets literacy, encourages a love of books, and provides an opportunity to learn and succeed. Social work students 'buddied up' with Indigenous primary school students, encouraging and assisting them to write and illustrate their own short stories.

 The childrens' stories were frequently inspired by popular culture and their favourite movies, and in some cases blended with references to their traditional culture, expressing their own unique identies. The children variously thought that it was "cool", "excellent", and "exciting!" to be a printed author.

 Integral to the success of the project was finding a community centre that was willing to host the program and that is committed to combating Indigenous disadvantage. The Factory's Yurungai Learning Centre in Waterloo fully embraced the idea and ran the wordUP! program through September and October this year.

 The centre runs an out of school care program weekday afternoons that offers children recreational and educational support as well as providing nutritious meals. Children attending the Centre on Thursday afternoons took part in the wordUP! program.

 The wordUP! team collected donations and funded the printing of the children's stories into individual books. The finished books are now to be presented to the children as the finale of the wordUP! program.

 The Yurungai Learning Centre and the wordUP! team invite members of the media to attend the book launch and celebrate the achievements of these young Indigenous children.

 The Book Launch begins at 4:30pm at The Yurungai Learning Centre, upstairs at The Factory Community Centre in Waterloo, 67 Raglan Street, Waterloo.

 
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