Frederick Copperwaite Frederick Copperwaite i(A149984 works by)
Born: Established: Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Bunaba
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1 Poetics in the Time of Pandemic. There Is Always Going to Be a Before and an After Liliana Edith Correa , Frederick Copperwaite , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Portal , vol. 17 no. 1-2 2020;

'This paper reflects on the impact of lockdown in Sydney on artists and creatives. We share our personal story of how we imagined our lives would be before COVID-19 and the changes we observed after entering in pandemic mode. Intertwining images taken with a mobile phone and text, we offer our observations on the evolving new language that appears around us in supermarkets, on walls and on the footpath: signs determining social interactions and affecting behaviour. We also touch on the idea of how writing can bring us home and make us feel closer to our languages and countries of origin. We underline theatre’s importance to tell stories from the time of the pandemic, when governments have been found wanting due to lack of care of the most vulnerable, in particular First Nations peoples. We reflect on the need for reinvention, accepting change, reassessing our human values and making present our links to the natural world. As the pandemic takes us from one stage to the next, we suggest that creativity is the one possible space that offers relief and hope and opens up possibilities to make sense of our new reality while contributing to a collective sense of humanity. (Publication abstract)

1 Yellamundie Means Storyteller Frederick Copperwaite , 2012 single work autobiography
— Appears in: RealTime , October-November no. 111 2012; (p. 20)
' It has been over 20 years since the last Indigenous Playwrights' Conference occurred in Sydney and since then there have been significant developments in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander theatre across Australia.'
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