Lou Bennett Lou Bennett i(A115757 works by)
Born: Established: Echuca, Echuca area, Goulburn - Campaspe area, Northern Victoria, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Yorta Yorta / Yota Yota
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Dr Lou Bennett

'Director, Binung Boorigan Pty Ltd
McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Language retrieval through the arts

'Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung, Dr Lou Bennett is a former member of the internationally acclaimed trio Tiddas. Bennett is a consummate performer, playing audiences worldwide. Bennett is a prolific songwriter/composer and during her ten years with Tiddas (1990-2000) penned some of the group’s signature songs. Bennett’s work stretches over a vast area within the Arts industry throughout the past twenty-nine years including her various roles as Performer, Songwriter, Musical and Artistic Director, Composer, Actor, Soundscape and Music Designer and Educator.

'In 2006 Bennett was one of the co-founders of the Black Arm Band and contributing to all productions by the company. Bennett (Artistic director/Co-CEO) was an instrumental force in the company’s transformative journey from being a one-off ‘special project’, becoming an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander governed, not for profit major performing arts company. In Bennett’s time at the company (2006-2014) she was involved in the touring of five major productions both nationally and internationally. Bennett was a major contributor to the establishment  of the company’s Community Engagement Workshop Program.

'Bennett completed her PhD by project at RMIT Melbourne in October 2015. Bennett’s dissertation discusses the importance and relevance of Aboriginal language retrieval, reclamation and regeneration through the medium of the Arts to community health and wellbeing and explores the importance of Indigenous epistemology, methodology and pedagogy in artistic and academic contexts.

'Bennett uses her own languages of Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung, extending to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages that can be retrieved, reclaimed and regenerated through songs, stories and performances.

'Bennett continues to research the obstacles and ethical issues related to retrieving and transmitting Aboriginal languages cross-culturally and  across  different generations as the McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Dr Bennett was inducted onto the Victorian Women’s Honour Roll for 2017.'

(Source - University of New England)


Australian Writing and Rock Music affliation: vocals.

Sources include: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Bennett_(musician)

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