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ARTS SURGING FORWARD 10 May 2002 Regional Arts NSW is very pleased to announce that Indigenous author, Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara) will be a keynote speaker at Groundswell on Sunday 13 October. Doris Pilkington first made the Indigenous writing spotlight in 1990 when she won the prestigious David Unaipon Award for her work, Caprice - A Stockman's Daughter. In 1996 she released Follow The Rabbit-Proof Fence, a novel of extraordinary courage based on her mother's escape from repressive life at the Moore River Native Settlement, using hundreds of kilometres of rabbit-proof fence as a guide back to her homeland. This was made into the internationally acclaimed film, Rabbit Proof Fence. Born on Blafour Downs Station, Doris herself was forcibly removed from her family at the age of three and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. It's been a long, hard struggle for Doris, whose writings have educated many about the traumas she and other Aboriginal families have beeen through. She hopes her work will encourage others who have been taken away from their traditional areas to go back, reconnect with their land and reclaim their language, culture and identity. With her latest novel, Under the Windamarra Tree, to be released in October, Doris Pilkington's address is not to be missed. Doris Pilkington joins a sensational line-up of keynote speakers for Groundswell, which features a strong Indigenous component. The conference program including speakers' biographies and details of other concurrent events is now online here. Full details of the Tributaries (workshop) program will be available shortly. _____ To be informed as new conference content comes online, send your details in an email to groundswell@regionalartsnsw.com.au with 'Priority Mailing List' in the subject line. |
