'A powerful installation and performance work that illuminates the rituals of death and mourning in New South Wales and Victorian First Peoples communities.
'Set on-site at an historic church and cemetery, the work explores the mourning processes of First Nations women through memory, surrogation, lore, customs, the secular, the sacred, and myth.
'Key artists Lily Shearer, Liza-Mare Syron, Aroha Groves, Andrea James and Katie Leslie occupy St Bartholomew’s Church and Cemetery in Prospect – Darug country – to create an intimate, enlightening and moving experience.' ((Synopsis)
Presented by Moogahlin Performing Arts and supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, the Australia Council for the Arts, Blacktown City Council, and the Crown Resorts Foundation.
World premiere at St Bartholomew's Church, Prospect, New South Wales, 11 - 21 January 2018.
'Last year, the federal government’s swift rejection of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament left an already despairing Aboriginal polity limping out the final weeks and days of 2017, myself included. Without offering an alternate plan for protecting and advancing Aboriginal rights at the national level, hope for Aboriginal futures was in short supply.' (Introduction)
'Last year, the federal government’s swift rejection of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament left an already despairing Aboriginal polity limping out the final weeks and days of 2017, myself included. Without offering an alternate plan for protecting and advancing Aboriginal rights at the national level, hope for Aboriginal futures was in short supply.' (Introduction)
