JOIN OUR CREATIVE ASSEMBLY TO SPARK A NEW CULTURAL VISION: 

A MANIFESTO FOR ARTISTS AND OTHER ENDANGERED SPECIES

this is ur special invitation to offer one minute of glory to the art audiences of byron bay as part of a nite of one minute performance. `the show launches ten days of performances art festivities highlighting the weird, exotic and highly endangered wild life that dwells in `byron bay’s arts and industrial estate and the surrounding region. 13th to 21st of April 2012.

HOW TO APPLY

present any kind of idea you have in mind,

any discipline you have, artistic or not,

fleeting, immeasurable, crazy, or true

music, craft, words, magic, poetry, bakery, selling

any thing in your heart, mind or spirit

But take care that it is not longer than one minute

A unique experiment of social participation

Be welcome!      Be quick!        A unique prize for the best performance!

Express your interest by emailing your proposal to kulcha at kulchajam dot org

Name:

Telephone Number:

Email contact:

Name of performance:

Explanation of performance:

Technical requirements:

Keep your technical requirements simple. We will offer PA with 4 DI plug ins, 2 microphones, projector, simple stage lighting and spotlight

Any other technical requirements you will need to meet yourself

Integration within the Island Vibe festival, include contemporary all star and traditional closing ceremony collaboration at festival, films, forums and talks, workshops, weaving and healing.

Archie Roach

join emerging artists and local island residents
for workshops, school classes, forums, films and more.

The beautiful island off Brisbane will host a massive weeks program from 24th Oct-1st Nov 2010, the second year of  a collaboration between Kulchajam, Island Vibe Festival and local Quandamooka peoples that brings the Dunwich township alive with a week of arts and cultural activites.

Cultural representatives from across Australia and the Pacific join Straddie residents and local Quandamooka peoples for a week of arts and culture exchange.

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The week will bring together Indigenous legends including Archie Roach with emerging artists from across Australia including Kylie Sambo, schoolgirl from Muckety NT whose utube hit talks about government plans for a nuclear waste dump on her country.

Local Yulu Burri Ba dancers and all on the island will have an opportunity to share with first nations from across Australia and the Pacific including Papuan, Torres Strait, Maori representatives and some of the country’s best artists.

A multi media cultural fusion where traditional meets the contemporary, island meets desert and black meets white.

The week includes workshops, classes and performances intergrating songwriting, beatboxing, films, audio & visual production, language, healing, history and indigenous story, traditional arts and crafts including weaving, song and dance.

The Program offers diverse opportunities for local community and emerging artists who attend:

Arts and cultural exchange including a kaup murri welcome, a day of men’s and women’s business, a weaving exchange amongst Indigenous weavers from Quandamooka (Nth Straddie), Torres Strait Island (Boigu Island), Yolgnu (Yirkala), history sharing through the local museum.

A school’s program (workshops and classes with local primary and secondary school students on culture, music, Indigenous history, Indigenous healing, drug and alcohol awareness)

Emerging artist’s program (mentoring, master classes, rehearsal and studio time and collaborative performance opportunities for emerging artists)

Weaving Circle and exchange amongst local and visiting weavers from Minjerrba, Torres Strait, the Mainland and the Pacific. Exchange skills and intertwine story lines workshops will focus on the weaving of materials that are readily available in the ecology of Nth Stradbroke island.

Forums on indigenous histories from Tarinaki, Papua, Minjerriba, and shared perspectives on culture, traditional healing, land, women and community.

Festival Showcase: Integration within the Island Vibe festival, include contemporary all star and traditional closing ceremony collaboration at festival, films, forums and talks, workshops, weaving and healing.

This program is made possible through the partnership, support, blessings and participation of Minjerriba Moorgumpin Elders in Council, Yullu Buri Ba Dance Troupe, the NSI Aboriginal Housing Co-operative, Salt Water Murris Quandamooka Artists Co-operative, Quandamooka Land Council,  Dunwich Public School, Youthlink, Quandamooka Forum.  Love and respect to all Quandamooka peoples.

This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
The regional arts development fund is a Queensland government and Redland Shire Council partnership to support local arts and culture. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.’

In its second year in 2010, it brings together arts and cultural practitioners from across Australia and the Pacific with the traditional owners, the Nunukhl, Goenpul and Nuggi (Quandamooka) peoples, and the community of Minjerribah- (North Stradbroke Island) for a diverse program of skillsharing, knowledge exchange, professional development, collaboration and performance opportunities.

The program culminates in a diverse series of workshops, performances, speakesr, forums, films and artistic collaborations at the Island Vibe Festival to over 4000 people. Highlights including a collaborative performance at the closing ceremony of the festival incorporating local youth and school students amongst the traditional cultures represented during the program and an all star contemporary musical performance.

PARTNERS AND ARTISTS INVOLVED:
The program has evolved as a partnership between Kulchajam Inc as the project manager and Island Vibe Festival as the principal partner and organizations and elders from the Minjerribah (Nth Stradbroke Is) community. Key arts and cultural organizations on Minjerribah partnered in the program including the Yulliburribah Dance Group, the Quandamooka Saltwater Murri Aboriginal Artist Cooperative, and The North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum, as well as the Dunwich Public (Primary and Secondary) School The Quandamooka Peoples of Minjerribah maintain rich Indigenous cultures and now share country with white Australian, Rotuman, Maori, Kanak, Filipino, Samoan, Tongan as well as maintaining historical links with other Indigenous communities across Australia including communities on Palm Island, in Willouhra, Grooyte and Tiwi Islands. Like many other Indigenous and culturally diverse communities the island faces challenges of drugs and alcohol, unemployment, available housing, and a lack of opportunities for the youth.

The project responds to a call from elders on Minjerribah to support revitalisation and pride in culture as an anecdote to the disadvantage and difficulties facing the youth on the island. Realising that such a call is shared by many across the country, the program reaches out to emerging artists and cultural workers in Indigenous communities to take part in a diverse program of cultural and artistic exchange that can support mutual learnings.

Building upon the existing family, clan and cultural links the program draws together modern and traditional musicians, dancers, weavers and other artist and cultural workers for a week of artistic and cultural exchange that provides positive representation of a variety of traditional and contemporary Indigenous Australian and Pacific cultures.

Kulchajam is a member of the Plant Freedom Alliance- a grassroots network dedicated to right of human beings to have knowledge of and access to all the plants of this earth.

Our love and respect to the Arakwal people and all the Bundjalung people who have called Byron Bay home for time immemorial. Thank you for welcoming us onto your lands. Kulchajam aknowledges and recognises the sovereignty of the first peoples of these beautiful lands, sands and seas.