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Opening Celebrations Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 July An exciting weekend program of performances, talks and
cultural events at the Gallery celebrated the opening of 'Story Place'.
Auslan Interpreted Tour 3.00pm Sunday 31 August An Auslan interpreted tour of 'Story Place: Indigenous
Art of Cape York and the Rainforest'.
Lecture 'Story Place' Presented by Trish Johnson, Project Officer
and Community Trainee Coordinator (Indigenous Australian Art), QAG.
Artist talk Munganbana (Norman Miller) ‘Story Place’ artist Munganbana
is s descendant of the Rainforest peoples of the Atherton Tableland.
His work in the exhibition includes a series of black and white linocuts
that feature designs from the shields once used by people of the
rainforest. In this talk Munganbana (meaning ‘mountain water’)
spoke about his work and culture.
Lecture ‘Joe Rootsey:
The Second Namatjira’ Presented by Lynne Seear, Assistant Director
(Curatorial and Collection Development), QAG.
Artist talk Vernon Ah Kee This
talk focused on his powerful photography and text-based work featured in
the ‘Story
Place’ exhibition.
Ah Kee currently lectures in contemporary Indigenous Australian art
at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane.
Lecture ‘Cultural Geographies of the Rainforest’ Presented by Julie Ewington, Head of Australian Art,
QAG. Lecture Theatre.
Wake up to art! 9.00 am Sunday 28 September Enjoy a talk on 'Story Place' followed by Sunday
brunch. Bookings required. Telephone (07) 3840 7278 during office
hours.
Story Place Film Forum Queensland Art Gallery Lecture Theatre ‘The House-Opening’ (1980) Directed
by Judith MacDougall Film screenings and discussion of approaches to documenting Indigenous culture through film and new media by leading Australian documentary filmmakers and representatives of Indigenous communities of Cape York. $10 adult /$5 concessions (lunch provided). Bookings essential by 10 October. Telephone (07) 3840 7255 during office hours. For more information please contact Donna McColm, Tertiary & Public Programs Officer. Tel: (07) 3840 7315 or email donna.mccolm@qag.qld.gov.au.
Lecture 'Yolngu Performances of Place in Works of Art' Presented by Marcia Langton, Chair of Indigenous Studies,
Centre for Indigenous Education at the University of Melbourne. Lecture
Theatre.
Screening Room Every day throughout the exhibition Dance performance as an art form in Cape York is represented
in the ‘Story Place’ exhibition through an important 1964
film called Dances at Aurukun. The film records totemic and
other dances by members of the Aurukun community in west Cape York Peninsula,
and can be viewed in the ‘Story Place’ Screening Room on
the Watermall level. Some of the sculptures featured in the dances are
on display in the exhibition. See also . . . Find out about activities for children at 'Story Place'.
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