by Barbara Lepani | Oct 15, 2021 | Commentary, Our Collective
Communicating Indigenous Knowledge and Connection to Country through dance Ian RT Colless, a First Nations Artist and Dancer who lives and works between Sydney and New York, will give a talk at the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute Eco-Arts Seminar on Sunday 24...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 2, 2021 | Commentary, Our Collective
Get yourself a copy of this most wondrous book if you would like to gain a deep insight into the songline (songspiral) traditions of First Nations cultures. In 2019, Allen and Unwin published the Gay’Wu Group of Women of North East Arnhem Land’s book,...
by Barbara Lepani | Dec 10, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
Decolonising Research—Storywork Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology (2019), edited by Jo-ann Archibald, Q’um Q’um Xiiem, Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan, and Jason De Santolo, shows how Indigenous Warrior Scholars are using the epistemology of...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 29, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
The painting featured above, held in my personal collection, is of the Tingari Songline by George Ward Tjungurrayi, a Senior Knowledge man of the Gibson Desert (Barbara Lepani). Songlines: The Power and Promise How to do justice to this small paperback,...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 14, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
Epistemology and Culture Epistemology is the study of how we construct our systems of knowledge (ways of knowing) that express our worldview. These rest on our ontology, our ideas about the nature of reality. In a multicultural society, it is important to understand...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 12, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
Community Matters Blue Mountains artist, Wendy Tsai, asks: “How do we garner and nurture the passion in why the arts are so important in cultural life?” The answer to this question lies in the strength of the relationships between the creative arts community of...
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