This weekend in Melbourne

20 May, 2011 17:09 by Lucy

Hi there,

Research, content development and design are chugging along rapidly. We’ve recently had some interesting feedback from our audience evaluation process, which is informing how we approach the new exhibition, and we continue to narrow down object and image selection from the huge array of wonderful historic and contemporary cultural material to choose from.

We wanted to highlight a few events coming up this weekend that we’re really excited about. Tonight is the Melbourne opening of the 2011 Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival, being launched with the screening of Beck Cole’s recent release, ‘Here I Am.’ Bunjilaka is proud to be involved in bringing this festival to Melbourne, and we’re all going to be hanging around the cinema this weekend, so check out the Message Sticks website to find out what other films are being toured nationally this year, and come along! All films are free!

http://www.blackfellafilms.com.au/messagesticks/

Of course this weekend is also The Long Walk, coinciding with the AFL’s Indigenous round. You can check it out here:

http://www.thelongwalk.com.au/News-Events/Latest-News/Register-now-for-The-Long-Walk-2011

 

Hope to see you at one (or all) of these events,

Lucy

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About this blog

The Bunjilaka redevelopment project will create new and exciting permanent exhibitions in the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, opening to the public in mid-2012.

Blog authors

Genevieve Grieves is the lead curator on the project and is responsible for the exhibition's content.

Will Patten managed community engagement August–December 2010 to find out Koori communities’ ideas for the new exhibition.

Pete Wilson is the lead designer and will be designing the new exhibition.

Mary Morris is developing content for the exhibition that focuses on south east Australia.

Bliss Jensen is the producer managing the overall development, design and production of the new exhibition.

Lucy De Kretser is researching histories, stories, collections, people and places.

David Slucki is one of the curators responsible for developing stories and finding objects for the exhibition.