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Australia invited to celebrate Yabun
Australia’s premiere one-day Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures is back bigger and better than ever at Victoria Park, Camperdown on 26 January 2010. Presented by Gadigal Information Service, the home of Koori Radio 93.7 fm, the eighth Yabun Festival showcases the best in Indigenous talent in music, dance, sport, politics, literature, art […]
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Get ready for Dreaming festival
The Dreaming festival is a place for all Australians to immerse themselves in the contemporary and traditional practices of the world¹s Indigenous cultures. Part of the uniqueness of The Dreaming festival is being in the beautiful Woodford valley, sitting around a campfire listening to an elder tell a story with warmth, generosity and spirit, then […]
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Bluesfest gets Indig stage
Byron Bay’s acclaimed Bluesfest will celebrate its 20th birthday over Easter 2009 by introducing a new InDIG stage, which showcases our country’s Australian and Southern Pacific Rim Indigenous heritage. Festival director Peter Noble and the Bluesfest team are excited and proud to present the following artists who will be performing on the InDIG stage: Saltwater […]
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Rhoda Roberts – Queen of the Night
At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, Rhoda Roberts whipped up a Creation Storm over Sydney Harbour, heralding in 2009 for a watching world. It’s the latest international hallmark event for our leading Indigenous creative director. Rhoda Roberts has been showcasing the richness and beauty of Indigenous culture to the world for the […]
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Our Mob 08 (August 2 – September 7)
For the third consecutive year, Adelaide Festival Centre is proud to present Our Mob, a statewide celebration of remote and regional South Australian Aboriginal artists, on display in the Festival Centre Artspace and foyers from 2 August – 7 September 2008. Exhibited during the South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival, the exhibition features work by […]
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Indigenous Community Festivals for Education Expanded
The Minister for Education today announced that more Indigenous communities will have the opportunity to participate in community festivals in 2008. The Australian Government provides $3.05 million annually under the Community Festivals for Education Engagement program to support targeted events that encourage school attendance, retention and healthy lifestyles for all young Australians, in particular Aboriginal […]
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Hip hop and pop come together (June 6-9)
Sydney singer-songwriter Jane Walker joins veteran hip hop duo Street Warriors on stage at this year’s Dreaming Festival in Woodford from June 6-9 It’s an unusual move for Street Warriors, Deadly Award-winning rappers, given the apparent gulf between them in background and musical styles. But it makes perfect sense, says Abie Wright, aka Predator, who […]
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Yabun 2007
rong>A Day to Remember This Survival Day is the 70th Anniversary of the Day of Mourning protest and conference, which was held at Australia Hall in Sydney on the 150 th anniversary of British invasion ” January 26, 1938. The event was organised principally by William Cooper (who founded the Australian Aboriginal League in Melbourne […]
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Tamworth 2005
Deadly Vibe Issue 96 February 2005 Showcase Starts with a Bang! Country Music fans in Tamworth flocked to the Oasis Hotel for a deadly taste of country. Kicking off the Aboriginal Showcase at this year’s Tamworth Festival was the special Oasis Hotel Aboriginal Concert at the Oasis Hotel on Monday, January 17. Always a huge […]
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Bull Riding
Deadly Vibe Issue 96 February 2005 Eight Second Heroes Most of us would prefer to stay away from an angry bull. These guys like to ride ’em. As the hot sun beats down on the dry brown dirt, young children scale the boundary fence to catch a closer glimpse of the action. Local people mingle […]
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Russell Adcock
Deadly Vibe Issue 96 February 2005 Fair Crack of the Whip! This fella could whip you with one hand tied behind his back ” literally Russell Adcock first picked up a stock whip when he was only four years old, inspired by his grandfather, champion whip-cracker Besley Murray. “I used to pinch my grandfather’s whip […]
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Dreaming Festival
Deadly Vibe Issue 101 July 2005 A New Dreaming A celebration of Indigenous culture brings Woodford alive. The Dreaming, Australia’s International Indigenous Festival, was held over the June long weekend at the Woodford Folk Festival site at Woodford, Queensland. Indigenous artists from here and around the world provided an amazing showcase of Indigenous theatre, dance, […]
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Garma Festival
Deadly Vibe Issue 103 September 2005 Good Karma at Garma The annual Garma Festival allows black and white to come together to share knowledge. “A garma is a sort of place ” of rich resources for many people, this garma thing. For all Yolngu [people]. Like this, all Yolngu always used to come to this […]
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Nigel Beetson
Deadly Vibe Issue 107 January 2005 Road to Stardom Another Indigenous performer is on the road to Tamworth. A second Aboriginal heat winner will be heading to the Tamworth Country Music Festival this month to perform in the Telstra Road to Tamworth competition. Nigel Beetson won the Lithgow heat of the competition in November of […]
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The Garma Festival
Sharing Our Spirit Deadly Vibe Issue 115, September 2006 The Garma Festival – A celebration of culture that brings Aboriginal Australia alive. The Garma Festival is a vibrant and colourful celebration of the East Arnhem Land Yolngu culture. For five days each year the festival brings a gathering of people to Gulkula – a remote […]
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The vibe 5
Vibe 5 It’s hard to believe it’s August already – the year is already more than half over, and the Deadlys is just around the corner! We’ve featured some awesome Indigenous achievers in this issue, from a Shakespearean actor to a hip hop crew. Talk about diversity! Get stuck into August Deadly Vibe and see […]
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