Indigenous Film Festival 10th Anniversary at Sydney Opera House
Enjoy 7 world premieres of 7 Short Films by 7 new Australian directors including directorial debuts by Deborah Mailman and Leah Purcell.
FREE public screenings, FREE live music,and a FREE photographic art exhibition. You will also have an opportunity to meet and talk with filmmakers after each session.
Sydney Opera House is proud to present the 10th Message Sticks Festival, a program of film and performance celebrating the creativity of indigenous artists from Australia and overseas. Through our public and performance programmes, we seek to give a range of artists and performers a place at Sydney Opera House in which to speak to the wider community.
A significant feature of this festival is that the works must be by indigenous artists and not simply about indigenous issues. The films and shorts in this years festival showcase excellence in performance and filmmaking, and demonstrate Sydney Opera Houses longstanding commitment to the process of reconciliation. I invite you to experience these culturally significant works that will resonate with indigenous and non indigenous audiences alike.
Richard Evans CEO, Sydney Opera House
Indigenous Tourism Conference 2009
Many Tribes, One Country is the theme for this year’s Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference to be held in Townsville, Queensland from 24th - 27th March 2009.
The event showcases Indigenous tourism excellence around Australia and celebrates the industry’s success stories.
Keynote speakers include the Federal Minister for Tourism, Martin Ferguson; performer Ernie Dingo; chef Mark Olive; the chair of Desert Knowledge Australia, Fred Chaney; the chairman of Tourism Western Australia, Kate Lamont; Terri Janke, an Indigenous arts lawyer; and Shirley McPherson, chair of the Indigenous Land Corporation.
“AITC 2009 will address the key issues and needs that impact on Indigenous Tourism in Australia and the opportunities that exist for culturally authentic Indigenous tourism product, especially in the development; employment and training of Indigenous people which have a positive social and economic return to Australia and in particular regional Australia,” says Neville Poelina, chair of the Western Australian Indigenous Tourism Operators Committee Inc. (WAITOC).
Go now to: AITC 2009 -Townsville, Queensland - Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference 24 - 27 March 2009