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Special
paintings commissioned for the Forum
Reknowned Rirratjingu artist Dhuwarrwarr Marika has been commissioned
to paint a series of works in response to the themes of the
forum. After discussions with the artist in relation to issues
like sustainable occupation, governance and resource rights
she decided to paint a story passed on to her by her father
Mawalan Marika.
The paintings
focus on a turtle hunting expedition. The first, which is
now complete, depicts the preparation by the hunters of their
equipment. The hunters are twisting rope and other items are
spread out before them on the beach.
Click
here to view painting
A Symposium
(Indigenous Performance Research) in association with
the Garma Festival of Traditional Culture will be held prior
to the festival from the 10–12 August.
Reports
from the Symposium will be presented at the Forum during Garma.
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information on the performance symposium |
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The Garma
Forum is part of the Garma Festival. Each year the Festival
has incorporated a Forum which is facilitated by the Garma
Cultural Studies Institute. Delegates coming for the forum
also come to participate in all other events held during the
festival Click here for more details
of the festival.
From August
14-16 2002 the Yothu Yindi Foundation in conjunction with
the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Australia), will be holding
a forum entitled ‘Indigenous people and the environment’
at the Garma Festival held annually in Arnhemland, Northern
Territory. It is expected participants from around the world
will attend including indigenous people from PNG, Canada and
the Arctic Circle.
At the
present time indigenous people internationally are rethinking
their engagement with western society as they demand and reassert
their rights to both manage their own lands and culture, and
map their own futures. 2002 has been designated the United
Nations International Year of Ecotourism. WWF and YYF believe
that tourism, travel and ‘ecotourism’ is but a subset
of a broader suite of issues.
The forum
themes will include governance and natural resource management;
caring for country—sustainable occupation; intellectual
and cultural property rights; and eco-tourism.
The ‘Indigenous
people and the Environment’ forum will bring together
indigenous peoples, scientists, conservationists, venture
capitalists, social scientists and ecotourism experts to find
new linkages, synergies and directions in equitable cultural
exchange, sustainable indigenous and non- indigenous economies
and the wise use of the environment.
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