Tag: Origins Festival

Origins Festival of First Nations 2015 to feature Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Zugubal Dancers, and David Gulpilil film 'The Tracker'.

Five of Australia’s most talented Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander creative practitioners have arrived in the UK to take part in the British Council’s annual ACCELERATE programme. High Commissioner Mike Rann welcomed them at a special event at the BT Tower.

INTERVIEW | Fiona Foley is raising awareness about the mistreatment, and plight of indigenous people in Australia through her controversial artworks, including Vexed a video presentation exploring the breakdown of traditional Aboriginal marriages, currently on display at EcoCentrix; Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts.

As part of Origins 2013 Australian born Maori dance artist Victoria Hunt embodies the spirit of a meeting house, which sheltered the people of Mount Tarawera during a volcanic eruption, in her performance Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka.

Soprano Deborah Cheetham, Australia’s only classically trained Australian Aboriginal opera singer, will perform in London as part of the Inside Out Festival, presenting excerpts from her opera Pecan Summer.

Ancient history and artistic expression combine in Origins 2013, a cultural festival of artists and performers with deep roots, coming together to share ideas about the past, present and future.