Asylum Seekers Resource Centre training

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre media training 3 2013 September - Melbourne VIC

The Change Media team ran the final collaborative workshop in Melbourne with members and volunteers from the ASRC (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre). The 1-day workshop, focused on handover of a broadcast quality camera for the ASRC, to enable their members to produce their own creative myth busting videos and community campaign films.

The workshop forms part of an ongoing two year collaborative effort to debunk the myths surrounding asylum seekers and to create powerful media messages for TV, internet and/or video projection art. The Change Media team will skill up members and volunteers at the ASRC, to support them to create a self sustaining media hub as a resource for asylum seekers to have a voice in the digital age.

During the handover workshop, participants trained on their new camera and media literacy skill to enable them to transfer their stories into screen language.
This workshop conceded a successful 2-year co-creative process to support asylum seekers in Australia. The ASRC community media team now has their own iMac media hub with broadcast quality camera and all skills necessary to commence their own artistic work.

Big thanks to the Australian Nurses Federation for the use of their fabulous venue!

Partners

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

OurCommunity

Tallstoreez Productionz

Victorian College for the Arts Centre for Cultural Partnerships

Positively Fabulous - women living with HIV

Women Living with HIV workshop - Positively Fabulous 2013 August - Richmond VIC

Change Media collaborated with GloballyAware’s Artistic Director Kim Davis and women living with HIV during a series of co-creative community workshops to develop a prototype and teaser video for a large scale public art project GloballyAware is planning for 2014-2015.

‘Positively Fabulous’ will be a large-scale interdisciplinary community health-arts collaboration between GloballyAware and Change Media, connecting Women Living with HIV, global stakeholders and communities through co-creative film-making, innovative public arts interventions and social media strategies, with on-line engagement via Feral Arts’ PlaceStories and ABC Open platforms.

‘Positively Fabulous’ combines an online platform with innovative engagement strategies through digital media and public art events and accessible peer-produced resource kit. The project consults and collaborates with women living with HIV to have their voices heard and to input into the decision-making that affects their health, well-being and lives. With long-term benefits reaching well beyond 2015, this interactive arts project amplifies HIV-positive women’s voice for self-determination and effective harm reduction, human rights, social justice and equality.

GloballyAware’s Artistic Director Kim Davis is lodging a series of funding submissions this year to make the project happening; please contact us if you are able to support the initiative.

Partners

Arts SA

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Globally Aware

Living Positive Victoria

Straight Arrows

Tom Trevorrow tribute

Ngarrindjeri Elder Tom Trevorrow tribute - 2013 April - Coorong SA

Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website and videos links contains images and voices of people who have died.

Media Release April 21, 2013
‘Tom Trevorrow passes away’
It is with considerable sadness that we announce the passing of Mr Thomas Trevorrow at the age of 58 years from a heart attack at his office at Camp Coorong, Meningie.

Mr Trevorrow was a strong and proud Ngarrindjeri man and a leading advocate for Aboriginal Rights in Australia. He worked throughout his life to better the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people and to support the advancement and recognition of the Ngarrindjeri People. With his wife Ellen, Tom worked for 30 years to develop program’s like the Ngarrindjeri Lands and Progress Association and Camp Coorong that fostered and supported Ngarrindjeri culture, arts and tradition, such as weaving. Tom shared with Ellen a commitment to enriching the life of the Ngarrindjeri community and ensured this focus was integral to the development of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. He worked closely alongside his brother, Mr George Trevorrow and his Ngarrindjeri brother, Mr Mathew Rigney.

Tom Trevorrow was highly respected by all for his wisdom and insight into Aboriginal matters and a key leader in advancing Indigenous issues. His contribution to asserting the position of Aboriginal People and its proper relationship to Governments and non-Indigenous people was significant at state and national levels. His reputation as an Indigenous leader and educator was internationally recognised. He was a sought after speaker by political leaders at all levels of government, by universities, local councils and community organisations. Mr Trevorrow was highly respected for his spiritual and cultural life. He was a person of great honesty and personal integrity. He will be sadly missed by many people.

Tom Trevorrow believed strongly that the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people needed healing. He felt that the government did not consistently act in a meaningful or respectful manner in its dealings with Indigenous People. This was particularly the case when issues of power and control of government were being challenged by Indigenous People. Mr Trevorrow believed that the original promises of a just settlement in the 1836 Letters Patent for South Australia needed to be followed through by the State Government and that a treaty needed to be negotiated between Indigenous People and the State Government. He thought that a treaty would be a powerful healer of the pain felt by Aboriginal People in their daily lives and would provide justice to those who had passed without knowing it, and provide a proper platform for those Indigenous People living in the future.

ABOUT

Tom Trevorrow was a highly respected Ngarrindjeri man. He worked endlessly and tirelessly to advance Ngarrindjeri interests, whether this was as a group of people or for individual Ngarrindjeri people. He was Manager of Camp Coorong: Race Relations and Cultural Education Centre and Chair of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. He had a deep cultural understanding of his lands and waters, he knew that the lands and waters need not to be disconnected from the Ngarrindjeri People and he fought hard with governments to make them better understand. He passes with the knowledge that the government does have a better understanding of these issues. He passes knowing his beloved Ngarrindjeri People are strong and have a good base upon which to build their relationships.

Tom Trevorrow will be sadly missed by many people but the work he did throughout his life will continue to influence people’s lives into the future. Our condolences to Tom Trevorrow’s extended family including his uncles and aunties, his brothers and sisters, his wife, Ellen and their children, Thomas, Frank, Bruce, Tanya, Joe, Luke and Hank and his grandchildren.

SCREENINGS:
The tribute was screened during the funeral ceremony as thousands mourners paid their respects in Meningie, South Australia.

IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
Unfortunately we were unable to attend the funeral and farewell ceremonies in Menigie, as we were already booked and paid to be in Melbourne that day – but we said our good-byes to Tom over hours and hours of editing on the tribute. Luke had requested us to produce a tribute video that would serve as a memento of his fathers work and achievements.

We feel privileged to have had the chance to work with Tom for so many years; from Jen’s work with him, Uncle Matt and Uncle George and other Elders on the Hindmarsh Island bridge campaigns in the nineties, to our digital media projects with him over the last 5 years. Beyond his amazing work as an advocate for Indigenous lands right and cross-cultural understanding, Tom also was a visionary leader who early on saw the power of digital media for the Ngarrindjeri communities. Tom, your voice will be thoroughly missed.

Jen, Carl, Johanis, Jesse and Felix from Change Media

Flow - Life Giving Lands and Waters

Flow - Life Giving Lands and Waters

Ngarrindjeri Media - 2013 February - Meningie SA

Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website and video links may contain images and voices of people who have died.

The Change Media team partnered with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority in association with the SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources to produce a collaborative community-driven documentary about the Ngarrindjeri lands and waters and The Living Murray Initiative’s ICON sites during a four day capacity building workshop in Dec 2012 and edit process in Jan-Feb 2013 with the Ngarrindjeri Media Team.

Our crew worked with 12 scientists selected by DEWNR and the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, to address a series of issues about managing the River Murray, the Lower Lakes and the Coorong. Over 4 days we investigate the different western scientific and economic approaches, in comparison with Ngarrindjeri knowledge and cultural practice shared by their elders, and find out how both sides can work together for a better understanding of the fragile environment of the Ngarrindjeri lands and waters.

The film has already triggered some interesting responses, a researcher from Flinders University said the film sets a new benchmark for collaborations between Indigenous communities and government departments, especially on the contentious issue of water and land management and related cultural rights.
We also have been asked to co-present Flow at the World Indigenous Network conference in Darwin in May 2013.
The Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority will use the documentary also as part of their Native Title claim, as it provides supporting evidence of their ongoing cultural connection to their land and waters. If our work can make a contribution on this level, then may be not all is lost…

Partners

Arts SA

Australia Council for the Arts

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

Murray Darling Basin Authority

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

South Australian Government Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

headspace Virtual Tour

headspace youth media workshop - Adelaide Northern Virtual Tour2013 January - Elizabeth SA

headspace Adelaide Northern Virtual Tour - PLAY FILM

For their first project of the year, the Change Media team got together with headspace Adelaide Northern and their YAC(youth advisory committee) to create a fun and engaging virtual tour. During a two day workshop at the centre the team brainstormed and shot the film, which was aimed to make the service more accessible, fun and friendly and give some information about it for those considering accessing it.

The participants were part of a professional production, building on previous experiences from their July 2012 workshop with Change Media. Participants learned good interview skills, set dressing, and lighting theory.

“It looks professional and fresh and colourful and !!!!!! So excited about it! Thanks to everyone for giving us the opportunity to make something that will hopefully help more young people feel brave enough to come to headspace!”
-Suzanne

Partners

Arts SA

Australia Council for the Arts

headspace

Tallstoreez Productionz