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Aliwa!
''Aliwa!'' is a play by Indigenous Australian playwright Dallas Winmar, and published by Currency Press in 2002. Plot Based on a true story of a mother who tries to keep her three daughters from being taken away by officials after the death of her husband. It was later presented by Company B, was directed by Neil Armfield, starred Ningali Lawford, Kylie Belling and Deborah Mailman and was introduced by one of the sisters the play is based on, Aunty Dot Collard. First Production Aliwah! was first produced by Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre at the Subiaco Theatre, Perth, on 26 July 2000, with the following cast: *Mum / Alice, Dot, Reserve Boy: Rachael Maza *Judith, School Teacher: Irma Woods *Ethel, Native Welfare Officer: Kylie Farmer *Director, Lynette Narkle *Designer, Tish Oldham *Sound and original music, David Milroy *Lighting Designer, Mark Howett Awards ''Aliwa!'' won the 2002 Kate Challis RAKA Award and was shortlisted for the 2002 Western Australian Premier's Book Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Winmar
Dallas Winmar is a Western Australian writer who first worked with Company B in 2001 on the staging of her play '' Aliwa!''. This play was first showcased in Perth by Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre and developed at the Australian National Playwrights Conference in 1999 and 2000. She was commissioned by Kooemba Jdarra Theatre Company to write ''Skin Deep'' for their 2000 program. ''Yibiyung'', her third play, was workshopped at the Australian National Playwrights Conference in 2006 and the PlayWriting Australia National Script Workshop in 2007. Dallas was jointly awarded the Kate Challis RAKA Award in 2002 for ''Aliwa!'' (alongside Jane Harrison for ''Stolen''). ''Aliwa!'' was also shortlisted for the script category of the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an annual book award provided by the Government of Western Australia, and managed by the State Library of Western Australia. History and format Annual literary a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Challis RAKA Award
The Kate Challis RAKA Award is an arts award worth , awarded annually by the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia to Indigenous Australian creative artists. It is awarded in a five-year cycle, each year in a different area of the arts: creative prose, drama, the visual arts, script-writing (screenplay or for theatre) and poetry. The award is sponsored by Professor Emeritius Bernard Smith, art and cultural historian, in honour his late wife, Kate Challis, who was earlier known as Ruth Adeney. "RAKA" is an acronym for "Ruth Adeney Koori Award". In the Pintupi language, "raka" means "five", and in Warlpiri, "rdaka" means "hand". It has been awarded since 1991. Past winners Past winners include: *Steven McGregor and David Tranter for the screenplay of '' Sweet Country'', 2017 *Yhonnie Scarce for her artwork of blown glass, ''Remember Royalty'', 2018 *Alexis Wright for her novel ''The Swan Book'' (2016) *Ivan Sen for the film script for ''Toomelah'', 2011 * Vivienne C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Narkle
Lynette Narkle, (born 1946) is an Australian indigenous theatre and film actor and director. Education Narkle studied Theatre and Drama from 2002 at Murdoch University in Perth. Career Narkle started in theatre in 1979, with indigenous playwright Jack Davis. Narkle worked for Screenwest increasing the engagement of Indigenous filmmakers with screen culture and was an associate director at Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company from 2002 to 2006. Narkle was on the Board of the Australia Council for the Arts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board from 2008 to 2010. Narkle was on the Board of the Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation from 2003 to 2007 and a WA representative on the Australia Council for the Arts Community Cultural Development Fund from 1996 to 1999. Personal Narkle, a Noongar woman, was born in Wagin, Western Australia in 1946. Narkle has three sons and two daughters. Honours and awards * 2017 Red Ochre Award, Australia Council for the Arts * 2018 Honorary Docto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylie Farmer
Kylie Bracknell, formerly Kylie Farmer and also known as Kaarljilba Kaardn, is an Aboriginal Australian writer, director and actress. Career Farmer played Juliet in a run of ''Romeo and Juliet'' with the Australian Shakespeare Company, featured in the 2010 revival of '' The Sapphires'', appeared in Rima Tamou's film ''Sa Black Thing'' (an episode of the SBS TV series ''Dramatically Black'') performed in the theatre production ''Aliwa!'', appeared in '' Muttacar Sorry Business'' and is the face and narrator of the NITV series ''Waabiny Time''. As Kylie Bracknell, she acted in Nakkiah Lui's ''Black is the New White,'' appeared the feature film ''I Met a Girl'', plays Ally in the animated TV show ''Little J & Big Cuz'', and plays Piper in the TV series ''Irreverent''. Noongar language and culture has featured strongly in her career. She spent 11 years working at Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, an Aboriginal-led theatre company based in Perth, in the heart of Noongar country. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ningali Lawford
Ningali Josie Lawford, also known as Ningali Lawford-Wolf and Josie Ningali Lawford, (1967 – 11 August 2019) was an Aboriginal Australian actress known for her roles in the films ''Rabbit-Proof Fence'' (2002), '' Bran Nue Dae'' (2009), and ''Last Cab to Darwin'' (2015), for which she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Early life and education Ningali Josie Lawford was born in 1967 on Christmas Creek Station, a cattle station in Wangkatjungka, near Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia, where her father, a stockman, and mother, a domestic, worked. She was a member of the Walmadjari (Tjiwaling) people, and of the Wangkatjunga language group. After attending Kewdale Senior High School in Perth, she spent a year in Anchorage, Alaska, on an American Field Scholarship. Lawford trained in dance at the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre in Sydney. Career Lawford made her acting debut in the musical '' Bran Nue Dae'', which premiered in Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph & Courier''. Considered a newspaper of record over ''The Times'' in the UK in the years up to 1997, ''The Telegraph'' generally has a reputation for high-quality journalism, and has been described as being "one of the world's great titles". The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition of the newspaper since 19 April 1858. The paper had a circulation of 363,183 in December 2018, descending further until it withdrew from newspaper circulation audits in 2019, having declined almost 80%, from 1.4 million in 1980.United Newspapers PLC and Fleet Holdings PLC', Monopolies and Mergers Commission (1985), pp. 5–16. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Plays
Theatre of Australia refers to the history of the performing arts in Australia, or produced by Australians. There are theatrical and dramatic aspects to a number of Indigenous Australian ceremonies such as the corroboree. During its colonial period, Australian theatrical arts were generally linked to the broader traditions of English literature and to British and Irish theatre. Australian literature and theatrical artists (including Aboriginal as well as Anglo-Celtic and multicultural migrant Australians) have over the last two centuries introduced the culture of Australia and the character of a new continent to the world stage. Individuals who have contributed to theatre in Australia and internationally include Sir Robert Helpmann, Dame Joan Sutherland, Barry Humphries, David Williamson, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Jim Sharman, Tim Minchin and Baz Luhrmann. Notable theatrical institutions include the Sydney Opera House, and the National Institute of Drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary prize with the top winner receiving 125,000 and category winners 25,000 each. The awards were established in 1985 by John Cain, Premier of Victoria, to mark the centenary of the births of Vance and Nettie Palmer, two of Australia's best-known writers and critics who made significant contributions to Victorian and Australian literary culture. From 1986 till 1997, the awards were presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. In 1997 their administration was transferred to the State Library of Victoria. By 2004, the total prize money was 180,000. In 2011, stewardship was taken over by the Wheeler Centre. Winners 2011–present Beginning in 2011, the awards were restructured into 5 categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an annual book award provided by the Government of Western Australia, and managed by the State Library of Western Australia. History and format Annual literary awards were inaugurated by the Western Australian Government in 1982 to honour and celebrate the literary achievements of Western Australian writers. Until 1990 the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards were called the WA Week Literary Awards. The title of the award refers to the year of publication, rather than the year in which the awards were announced e.g.the 2011 awards for works published that year were announced in 2012 The categories included poetry, non-fiction, fiction, Western Australian history, children's book, YA fiction, scripts and digital narrative. There was also a Premier's Prize, which was awarded to an overall winner. The Barnett government downgraded the awards from an annual event to a biennial one much to the disappointment of the WA arts sector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Maza
Rachael Zoa Maza is an Indigenous Australian television and film actress and stage director. Early life and education Maza is of Dutch, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Australian heritage, the daughter of Bob Maza, also an actor. She is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Career Television and film Maza worked as a TV presenter on ABC Television's weekly show focusing on Indigenous Australians, ''Message Stick''. and SBS's '' ICAM''. She has numerous credits as an actor in television series, including '' Wentworth, Winners and Losers, Halifax f.p., Stingers, SeaChange'', '' Heartland'' (in which her father also had a role), ''A Country Practice'' and ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries''. She acted in the films ''Cosi'' (1996), ''Radiance'' (1998), and Lillian's Story (1996). Stage Maza worked with Company B and Wesley Enoch for many years, with her performances at the Belvoir St Theatre including leading roles in ''Conversations with the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company
The Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, also known as Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre, is an Aboriginal Australian theatre company, based in Perth, Western Australia in the heart of the Noongar Nation, a cultural group from the South West of Western Australia. Formed in 1993, Yirra Yaakin provides the means and environment to assist the nurturing of Aboriginal community cultural development. ''Yirra Yaakin'' means "stand tall" in the Noongar language. In 2013, Yirra Yaakin staged Bob Merritt's play ''The Cake Man ''The Cake Man'' is a 1975 play by Aboriginal Australian writer Robert J. Merritt, Bob Merritt, notable for being the first play written by an Indigenous Australian person to be published, televised and to tour out of Australia. A telemovie was ...'' for the first time in WA, in a collaboration with the Belvoir. See also * Indigenous theatre in Australia References External links * * Culture of Western Australia Noongar culture Theatre companies in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
