For: Australian Teaching and Participatory Artists working with children and the organisations that support them.

How can we engage with Aboriginal culture, knowledges, histories and arts practice through mark-making and storytelling?

How can we teach, with our feet consciously on the lands we are living and working with. How and what do we, as artists, challenge stereotypes?

“When asked if I could come in and teach students how to make Aboriginal art, my answer - straight up - is: No! When the awkward silence runs its course, I’m sometimes forced to ask:

“Would you like to know why?” My Bardi mob don’t make pretty dots, we’re a saltwater peoples so desert animal tracks aren’t really appropriate and those symbols you get as ‘education packages’ via Google, have nothing to do with how my mob share our stories!

"In fact, those packs have very little to do with how most Aboriginal and Islander people share their stories today and perhaps, we should be talking about why!”

Ron will draw links from his experience as an Aboriginal Artist to a broader contemporary practice and ask us to reflect on our own stories and consider how we too, as contemporary artists, are misunderstood and how we each challenge this.

// Please note: there are funds to support access for this event (such as AUSLAN, audio description & other). Please email alex@maybetogether.com.au to organise by Friday 4th Dec //