October 22, 2009 – 7:17 am
By the way, I’m only moving into a different house because my sweetie and I want to buy one together that is truly ‘ours’ if you know what I mean – Roger Stolle, Cathead Music with a new twist on why you’d sell a house
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Fun stuff, Music, Some places I've been
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Tagged Cathead Music, Clarksdale, Hernando de Soto, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Quapaw Canoe Company, Quiz-Quiz, Roger Stolle, Sunflower River
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October 20, 2009 – 12:03 pm
Last Friday Helen and Mark Hughes put their names to an opinion piece in The Australian entitled Authorities must not wag school.
In short the arguments that the Hughes’ make are that Federal, State and Territory governments abandon their responsibilities to students – particularly remote Aboriginal students – by the stealthy foreshortening of school terms and [...]
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Australian politics, NT local government, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, Stupidity, Writing and writers
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Tagged ABC News, Andrew Bolt, Anglicare NT, Ann Buxton, Australian Education Union, central desert shire, Community Festivals for Education Engagement, Garma Festival, Garma Miwatj Youth Forum, Gulkula, Helen Hughes, Homeland Learning Centres, Marion Scrymgour, Mark Hughes, Nadine Williams, National Indigenous Times, Norbert Patrick, NT Education Department, Rowan Foley, Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities, The Australian, Ti-Tree, Yirrkala, Yothu Yindi Foundation
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October 2, 2009 – 8:59 pm
The Laarri Gallery is in the small community of Yiyili, an hour or so’s drive west of Fitzroy Crossing in, at this time of year anyway, the dry and hot heart of the Kimberley.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in The Arts
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Tagged Aboriginal Art Centres Guide, Aboriginal Independent Schools of WA, Australian Art Collector Magazine, Ganinya, Goolgaradah, Gooniyandi, Joy Warring, Know Your Granny, Kurinyjarn, Laarri Gallery, Mervyn Street, Moongardie, Norman Cox, Pullout Springs, Rocky Springs, Yiyili community
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September 8, 2009 – 11:26 am
What is it that is so important and special about homelands for their traditional custodians and that underpins the successful outcomes of living in their small communities?
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in NT local government, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Law, The NT Intervention
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Tagged Arnhem Weavers, Black Territorians, east Arnhemland, John Greatorex, NT National Emergency Response, Richard Downs, The ABC, the Alyawarra people, Yingiya Guyula, Yolngu peoples
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September 5, 2009 – 5:59 am
The focus of “Ilgarijiri – things belonging to the sky” is a collaborative project between artists associated with the Wajarri Yamatji region and radio astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), based in Perth, Western Australia.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Aboriginal & Islander Art, The Arts
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Tagged Alma Nungarrayi Granite, Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), by Gemma Merritt, by Sonya Edney, Emu Egg time, Ilgarijiri - things belonging to the sky, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), International Year of Astronomy, Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO), Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), Seven Sisters, Seven Sisters by Margaret Danishewsky, Square Kilometre Array (SKA), Wajarri Yamatji people, Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu
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September 4, 2009 – 6:29 pm
If you are in Alice Springs this weekend you can do a lot worse than go along to the Aralauen Arts Centre and catch the Desert Mob show that will be opening there Sunday – you might be lucky and see one of Nungarrayi’s paintings in the exhibition.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Aboriginal & Islander Art, Birds, The Arts, Yuendumu
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Tagged Alma Nungarrayi Granites, Araluen Arts centre, Bessie Nakamarra Sims, daughter, Desart, Desert Mob, grandaughter, Kingfisher Gallery, Mother, Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters dreaming), Paddy Japaljarri Sims, Paul Kelly, Warlukurlangu Artists, Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa (Star dreaming), Yiwarra - Milky Way Dreaming, Yuendumu
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August 22, 2009 – 11:50 am
These bird sculptures are just about the best bird sculptures I have seen. Made out of the scattered bits of metal that we discard in tips, along the road or just leave to rust where they die, they become a whole lot more than the sum of their parts.
The north of South Australia has a lot of some things – rocks, sand, caravans etc – and a distinct lack of other things – people, good coffee, humour…except for this little oasis of fun
Over the last few years, Paul Kelly has performed a series of unique shows under the banner ‘A to Z’, whereby he sings 100 songs from his catalogue in alphabetical order over 4 nights.
The main reason for my travel to Warmun was to get a better look at the work of, and make contact with several of the local artists who paint bird stories grounded in the local landscape and culture.
