Cirrus@Austlit

I' first met Craig San Roque at a gathering in 1996 on a property called Glastonbell in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney. Glastonbell had been set up a decade earlier as an eco-spiritual retreat by an eclectic, much loved mystic and devotee of deep ecology, Philip Simpfendorfer. The 1996 event was the first in a series of Sense of Place colloquia organized by John Cameron of the legendary Social Ecology program at UWS. Although most of the participants were academics, John's plan was to depart as far as possible from standard academic protocols and draw participants into a deep shared experience of place. Glastonbell was a rocky wonderland of cliffs, caverns, winding paths and hidden nooks, all with Middle Earth-type names like Dargan's Garden, The Cathedral, Valley of Continents and The Portals. Over a period of 3 - 4 days, our group met at various of these chthonic sites to discuss the conference papers which had been circulated prior to our meeting.'  (Introduction)

'Attention has been caught by the mythic performance events that I have helped facilitate and perform over the past 30 years. This is a brief history and rationale for the making of such events.' (Introduction)

A documentary on the Sugarman project, which was developed in order to reeducate Aboriginal and other Australians whose lives were being destroyed by alcohol. The Sugarman concept was created by Craig San Roque and Andrew Spencer Japaljarri. It uses public performance of a new 'dreamtime' story to demonstrate the consequences of alcohol abuse and to encourage people to take responsibility for its effect on their personal lives, their families, and their communities. The documentary was filmed at Injartnama, in Central Australia, where the 1999 performance of Sugarman took place.