Inaugural Ngarrindjeri Culture Hub exhibition in Murray Bridge, featuring a wide range of Ngarrindjeri artists and cultural practices
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Everything is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Shorts 1 - ABC iView - 2016 January - SA
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For Ngarrindjeri, everything is connected. Join their elders Ellen Trevorrow and Major Sumner on country as they share stories of art, culture and survival. We collaborated with Ngarrindjeri to create a beautiful web series for the inaugural Ngarrindjeri Culture Hub, linking Ngarrindjeri art, culture and country.
The Ngarrindjeri weaving, dancing and wood-carving videos showcase Ngarrindjeri culture and invite people to visit and participate in cultural activities at Camp Coorong. They were created during a series of multi-arts and capacity-building workshops with Ngarrindjeri communities in 2016.
The 4x 7min series is available on ABC’s iView arts channel under the title ‘Ngarrindjeri Shorts’. Click on the images below to watch all four episodes.
FInd 30sec trailers for Everything is Connected here:
Everything Is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Dance - 30 sec Trailer - PLAY FILM
Everything Is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Weaving - 30 sec Trailer - PLAY FILM
Everything Is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Carving - 30 sec Trailer - PLAY FILM
Click here for Ngarrindjeri Shorts season 2 - Ngarrindjeri Speaking for SeaCountry.
News flash - Thursday May 19th, 2016:
Everything Is Connected has been nominated for the Official Selection of the International Melbourne WebFest 2016! We are also nominated for Best Non-Fiction [Australia] and Best Cinematography [International]!!!
The series also was nominated for the 2016 SA Screen Awards and will screen on ABC iView in July 2016. And we can now announce that we have received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts for a Ngarrindjeri Culture Hub, which will include another web series featuring Ngarrindjeri artists and cultural stories.
Big congrats to our team both at Ngarrindjeri and Change Media - and a huge thanks to everyone involved and our partners and friends for all your support!
Together with our community partners, the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and the Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association, we delivered a series of multi-arts community engagement and capacity-building workshops in 2015-2016, to transmit Ngarrindjeri culture to young leaders and simultaneously created three new digital media works: Ngarrindjeri Carving with Elder Major Sumner and community members, Ngarrindjeri Dancing with Tal Kin Jeri dance group, and Ngarrindjeri Weaving with Elder Auntie Ellen Trevorrow and community members.
The inter-generational cultural exchange during the workshops, masterclasses and co-creative productions supported core elements of Ngarrindjeri cultural and arts activities.
The artworks, artifacts and a series of engaging cinema quality multimedia artworks are now being used by Ngarrindjeri to communicate culture and connection to country to the wider community.
Production credits
Producers: Carl Kuddell
Series Director: Jennifer Lyons-Reid
Director: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Developed by: Clyde Rigney Jnr, Luke Trevorrow and Laurie Rankine Jnr, Jennifer Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell and Johanis Lyons-Reid, in consultation with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association
Production management: Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr
Director of Photography: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Assistant Camera: Laurie Rankine Jnr, Owen Love
Editor & Post-Production: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Sound recording: Carl Kuddell, Laurie Rankine Jnr
Participants and contributors include
Auntie Ellen Trevorrow
Uncle Major Moogy Sumner
Ngarrindjeri community members
Alice Abdulla
Edith Carter
Latoya Love
Harmony Love
Bessie Rigney
Cheyenne Carter
Thomas Trevorrow
Tal Kin Jeri dancers
Loretta Sumner
Krissa Sumner
Major Sumner
Stacia Sumner
Lianna Sumner
Tyrone Lindsay
Jordon Karpany
Damien Wanganeen
Ryan Knowles
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority team
Clyde Rigney Jnr
Luke Trevorrow
Laurie Rankine Jnr
Owen Love
Supported by:
Australia Council for the Arts
Arts SA
Change Media
Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority
Natural Resources Management Board SA Murray Darling Basin
The Rural City of Murray Bridge
Alexandrina Council
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and the South Australian Government through Arts SA.