Aboriginal Cultuur

ZOEKEN

Stolen Generation Exhibition for rent !

The exhibition "Living in 2 worlds " Dreamweb made in 2006 is for rent for museum venues, public spaces and other venues.

The exhibition consists of 14 foto's and adherent textpanels with the portraits and 14 stories of Aboriginal Stolen Generation people.

We are currently working on a virtual exhibition of these portraits.

Stolen Generation Exhibition

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Richard Bell

foto :Lucien Lecarme

Speciaal Concert Projectkoor Paul Gieles

in regio Eindhoven op 15 en 16 november 2008

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Australië kent niet zo’n lange muziekgeschiedenis als die van West-Europa: geen Ars Antiqua, Ars Nova, Renaissance, Barok of Klassieke periode. De muziek is dan ook van veel recenter datum, en met een eigenheid die over een periode van zo’n 150 jaar is ontwikkeld, en nog steeds ontwikkeld wordt. De Aboriginals, de ritmiek, de uitgestrektheid van de natuur in al zijn facetten, alsmede de levensfilosofie komen in de muziek aan de orde. Zulke muziek, van geografisch grote afstand en van een andere cultuur is een uitdaging voor dirigent en zangers om te brengen; een repertoire dat zelden of nooit in Nederland wordt gehoord. De in Amsterdam wonende Australische dirigente Jane Lang heeft ons bij aanvang van het project gedurende een aparte workshop dag op weggeholpen. Zij verbleef 6 maanden bij de Aboriginals en kan als ‘native Australian’ ons de muzikale taal leren verstaan.

Klik hier voor een kleine foto impressie van de workshopdag.

impressie van de repetitie met jane Lang

Een deel van de eventuele baten van het project zullen ten goede komen aan de 'Aboriginal Resource and Development Services'. Dit is een non-gouvernementele stichting die zich inzet voor de ondersteuning van de Yolgnu stam in Noord-Oost Arnhem Land.

Concerten:

Zaterdag 15 november, 20.15 u, in het Atrium van verzorgingshuis 'Hof van Rode'
Deken van Erpstraat, Sint-Oedenrode

Zondag 16 november, 15.00 u, in het Pleincollege van Maerlant,
Jacob van Maerlantlaan 11, Eindhoven

Toegangsprijs: 7,50 Euro
Kaarten kun je reserveren via webmaster@projectkoorpg.nl. meer info : www.projectkoorpg.nl

De concertruimtes worden aangekleed in een Australisch-Aboriginal thema met hulp van Stichting Dreamweb

DESERT AUTUMN

a selection of photos by Lucien Lecarme from his april 2008 travels in de central Australian desert

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Video regarding issues of the latest Intervention in Australia

Click here for the article ( in Dutch)

Januari 23-27 2007

Dreamweb on NOT fair

Dreamweb presented itself and the Aboriginal Droomkoffer on the biggest education fair in Holland : NOT.

Look here for an impression with a slide show

Pamela Croft was invited to make a Mural in the fair each day, representing the message of the Wereldplein: World Citizenship. This theme is transformed by using Aboriginal symbols and art techniques. This was a unique event that created a lot of interest by the public. Still, 2 panels made at the fair are for sale

Kernkonsult is one of the sponsors of the mural.

Click here for information about Pamela Croft

Click here for more info on "het wereldplein " and more foto's

Ex Minister Jan Pronk puts the first hand on thuesday, Pamela puts his hand in the paint !

Ten Canoes NOW on DVD @ amazone / BOL.com

The movie Ten Caoes is mainly shot in the Ramingining area.

Watch a slideshow of this area here

Synopsis movie

'Bout time to tell you a story, eh? Then I'll tell you one of ours...

It is longtime ago. It is our time, before you other mob came from cross the ocean...longtime before then. The rains been good and ten of the men go on the swamp, to hunt the eggs of gumang, the magpie goose. One of the men, the young fella, has a wrong love, so the old man tell him a story...a story of the ancient ones, them wild and crazy ancestors who come after the spirit time, after the flood that covered the whole land...

It's a good story, this story I'm gonna be tellin' you 'bout the ancient ones. There's more wrong love in this story, and plenty spears too, and plenty wives...too many wives if you ask me...a beautiful young one and a bit of a jealous one and the older wise one and even more wives than that.

And there's plenty happens in this story...there's a stranger comes and one of them wives goes missin' and there's a man with a belly big as a mountain. There's sorcery and magic too, and a wrong spear in the wrong body, and more spears and bad spirits. And even that's not everything that's happening in this story.

Ahh, you gotta see this story of mine cause it'll make you laugh, even if you're not a blackfella. Might cry a bit too eh? But then you laugh some more...cause this story is a big true story of my people. True thing.

Direct Link

Long Synopsis of the making of...

June 2006

Dreamweb present at Destination Down Under.

Dreamweb presented workshops and Shows with Gavin Ware and Jeremy Devitt on the Destination Down Under fair june 2-5th.

Dreamweb had it's own cultural stand, with the Mural made in Zoetermeer. Also paintings of Jeremy Dewitt and David Jungala have been on display in a small exhibition.

Foto- impression

Website Destination Down Under

Australian Ambassador Stephen Brady plays Didgeridoo in the Dreamweb Stand and explains what he likes about the the Mural !

See a video of Mr. Brady, the major of Haarlemmermeer and Lucien Lecarme in front of the Mural

June 23th

The Abel Tasman museum and Staatsbosbeheer Groningen organise in coorperation with Dreamweb a meeting of cultures resulting in a "Worldmix "presented on friday june 23th at 20.00 in the Fleeremaheerd.

On that friday, an artwork called "the Baak "will be officially opened as highlight of the Holland - Australia 400 years celebration for the community of Grootegast and Lutjegast, the birthplace of Abel Tasman.

Click here for the Dutch Press-Rel.

Click here for more info on the Aboriginal Art Exhibition in the Fleeremaheerd.

Jeremy Devitt and Gavin Ware will be doing a performance and a workshop in the Fleeremaheerd on friday and saturday. Jeremy will also display his paintings.

2006

7 th Wave pictures (U.S.A) is producing a documentary about Pamela Crofts' life and consequences of being taken away from her mother and being part of the Aboriginal Stolen Generations.

Click here to see the trailer

Click here to see the website

Click here to read an article in Cinematl. com

Click here for a video about the Stolen Generations

Pamela Croft created the Mural "Keeping Connections Strong" in the Zoetermeer Down Under exhibition in april 2006. Dreamweb recorded the proces of making the Wallpainting and will release a video ( the making of...) in 2007.

Click here for more English info about the Mural and foto's.

Any info about the mural can be acquired at Dreamweb : e-mail

Pamela also made a Mural in Atlanta in march 2004, and 7th Wave Pictures made a short film about this proces. Click here to see the website.

februari - May 2006

Dreamweb organised with Stadsmuseum Zoetermeer an exhibition about living in two worlds. Inspiration is the Australian Aboriginal Stolen Generations issue. Dreamweb travelled to 4 states in Australia to meet and talk to people from the Stolen Generations, Government organisations like the National Library and Link up Organisations. The outcome is exposed in Zoetermeer. Also immigrants from Zoetermeer living in Australia are exposed, and newcomers in Zoetermeer, all linked by the theme.

Click here for more Dutch info

Click here for more English info

Mr. Jeff Hart ( Australian Embassy ) and Major Waaijer of Zoetermeer at the opening

FRIDAY OCTOBER 28 2005

Radio Interview with Dreamweb on SBS radio / Dutch. Broadcasted Nationwide in Australia.

Link to the interview (part 1)

Link to SBS radio Dutch

6 oktober 2005

Opening grote Australië tentoonstelling in Leiden

Ambassadeur S. Bradey is een van de sprekers bij de opening van de grote indrukwekkende Australië tentoonstelling in het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden. klik op de poster voor meer info.