Visual Language: the Heart of Cross - Cultural Understanding

Hi Fellow artists and friends, this workshop might interest you.

Visual Language: the Heart of Cross - Cultural Understanding focuses on story – telling  and to facilitate and establish  cross - cultural study exchange programs  and  broaden participants  understanding  and  knowledge of  Australian Indigenous culture in particularly  the Ngarrindjeri culture and traditions.

Duration: Full – residential Dormitory Accommodation for 5 days and 4 nights

When: 06 - 10 September 2010

Workshop program fee: $595.00
includes courtesy transfers (International and Australian interstate participant will be pick up and drop off back to Adelaide Airport). Full – residential Dormitory accommodation includes food (breakfast, lunch and dinner), entries to all programs, course notes and welcome packs.

This program aims to offer International students and Australian participants a global perspective of cross - cultural understanding. Visual language presentation are entwined with culture, tradition, and a concept that caring for country is everybody's responsibility and plays a key role in restoring the land and cultural understanding. Indigenous people view the land as fundamental to the well-being, identity and their culture. Indigenous people believe that the land is not just soil, rocks or minerals but a whole environment that sustains and is sustained by people and their culture. To have an appreciation of information continuity with science and Indigenous Knowledge working together is a means of moving forward to a better future and meeting the needs of future generations.

This workshop is significantly valuable to all participants who are interested in establishing cross- cultural study exchanges and uniting students worldwide through hands on training. The facilitators listed here are all knowledgeable in their chosen field and are respected Elders within the community. They can assure you that your stay in the community will be a memorable one.
 
Facilitators/Tutors:
Uncles  Moogy Sumner , Tom Trevorrow , George Trevorrow, Neville Gollan,  Matt Rigney, Aunty Ellen Trevorrow,  and facilitated by Joan Gibbs, Jelina and Malcolm Haines

Program activities includes:
‘Welcome to Country’, Smoking Ceremony, Boomerang and Spear Throwing lessons, welcome night traditional dance lesson at Bonney Reserve Conservation Park by Uncle Moogy Sumner, focus lessons such as Basket Weaving, Bush Walking where you will be guided by Uncle Tom, Field trips - visit to significant Ngarrindjeri sites, tour to the museum by  where you will be introduced to archival records of Ngarrindjeri history, tradition and culture, political history in Ngarrindjeri Perspective, Environmental Art and if the night sky at Camp Coorong is clear - star gazing using the telescope, learning about the Milky Way (Ngarrindjeri’s Canoe).

Info about the host venue:
Camp Coorong is in South Australia and situated in the Coorong Region. The Coorong has important Aboriginal significance and is renowned for its archaeological sites. Among the features of the Coorong are the largest middens in the world –evidence of thousands of years of continuous Ngarrindjeri occupation.  The Ngarrindjeri stories and knowledge is pass down by generations of Elders.

Camp Coorong is run by the Ngarrindjeri Lands and Progress Association (NLPA). Camp Coorong is 10km south of Meningie, 3km from another stretch of the Coorong National Park and 300 km from Adelaide Airport. The Ngarrindjeri Community is one of the largest and most active Australian Indigenous groups in South Australia, occupying the land around the Coorong and the lower Murray River and lakes.

For more details: contact Jelina Haines
                         Tel/Fax: 08 8523 2258
                          Mobile: 041 968 5557
                          email: jelina.art@bigpond.com
                          web: http://www.jelinahaines.com