Wenten rubuntja biography channel

  • Artists Marlene Rubuntja and Nanette Sharpe explain their connection to their work Blak Parliament House and Mparntwe/Alice Springs.
  • Rubuntja is the daughter of Wenten Rubuntja the well-known painter and activist.
  • Sixty-year-old Rubuntja comes from a family that likes to talk with meaning.

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    AustLit

    'Some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries is gathered in this landmark anthology. Covering all genres - from fiction, poetry and drama to diaries, letters, essays and speeches - the anthology maps the development of one of the great literatures in English in all its energy and variety.

    'The writing reflects the diverse experiences of Australians in their encounter with their extraordinary environment and with themselves. This is literature of struggle, conflict and creative survival. It is literature of lives lived at the extremes, of frontiers between cultures, of new dimensions of experience, where imagination expands.

    'This rich, informative and entertaining collection charts the formation of an Australian voice that draws inventively on Indigenous words, migrant speech and slang, with a cheeky, subversive humour always to the fore. For the first time, Aboriginal writings are interleaved with other English-language writings throughout - from Bennelong's 1796 letter to the contemporary flowering of Indigenous fiction and poetry - setting up an exchange that reveals Australian history in stark new ways.

    'From vivid settler accounts to haunting gothic tales, from raw protest to feisty urban satire and playful lit

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    Alick Tipoti

    The National NAIDOC Awards are announced at a ceremony and ball event in the national focus city. The ceremony is held on the Saturday before the start of NAIDOC Week.

    Winner Profiles

    2024

    Alick Tipoti is a Koedal (crocodile), a Zugubaw Baydham

    2024

    Caring for Country and Culture Award

    The National NAIDOC Committee are thrilled to announce Alick Tipoti as one of the finalists for Caring for Country and Culture award.

    Alick Tipoti is a Koedal (crocodile), a Zugubaw Baydham (seven stars shark constellation and a Kuki Guuba (northwest monsoon wind through his father's side from Badhu. He is a Koedal (crocodile), Thabu (snake) and Dhoeybaw (wild yam) through his mother’s side from Saibai.

    He is the head of the Koedal totem through cultural inheritance down the eldest male genealogy line and is known to his people as Zugub meaning spiritual ancestor.

    He is a fluent Kala Lagaw Ya language speaker (KLY & KKY dialects), a cultural leader and advisor. Alick is passionate about preserving his native language and reviving cultural traditions through his art and dance, He has been working putting together a language book and aims to have it published by early 2025.

    Alick has promoted his culture through art & dance nationally and inter

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