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A'LIAN INDIGENOUS CULTURAL FESTIVAL HELD IN JAKARTA
Jakarta, Jan 23 (ANTARA) - Celebrated Indonesian film-maker and Australian alumni Mira Lesmana and Australian Embassy Charge d'Affaires Louise Hand launched "Dreaming Stories, the Australian Indigenous Cultural Festival" in Jakarta on Friday.
"I am delighted we can share the strong connection Indigenous people have with their traditions and the ways in which those traditions are being maintained and celebrated today," Hand was quoted by the Australian embassy as saying.
Held at Blitzmegaplex, Grand Indonesia from 22 - 26 January 2009, the Festival features award-winning Australian Indigenous films and BALGO, an exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal art from the Balgo Hills region of remote Western Australia, the embassy said in its website.
Opening with the acclaimed Ten Canoes directed by prominent Australian director Rolf De Heer, the festival includes Rabbit Proof Fence; The Tracker; and Australian Rules, a film about Australia's own football code. All these films have been subtitled into Indonesian.
BALGO presents a range of stories and ceremonies of the mythic Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) that Balgo artists paint in a new and vital art form that blends the ancient with the contemporary; the abstract with representations of landscape; the spiritual with the political.
Two Balgo artists Joan Nagomara and Imelda Gugaman, the Director of Warlayirti Artists Art Centre, Sally Clifford, and Head of Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University, Professor Anita Lee Hong, have accompanied the exhibition on its first international staging in Jakarta.
Dreaming Stories is sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in cooperation with the Australia International Cultural Council, Screen Australia and Artbank and with support from Qantas, BERRI, Weis Ice Cream, Curtin University, Four Seasons Hotel Jakarta, Cinemags and KangGURU Indonesia, it said. ***3***
"I am delighted we can share the strong connection Indigenous people have with their traditions and the ways in which those traditions are being maintained and celebrated today," Hand was quoted by the Australian embassy as saying.
Held at Blitzmegaplex, Grand Indonesia from 22 - 26 January 2009, the Festival features award-winning Australian Indigenous films and BALGO, an exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal art from the Balgo Hills region of remote Western Australia, the embassy said in its website.
Opening with the acclaimed Ten Canoes directed by prominent Australian director Rolf De Heer, the festival includes Rabbit Proof Fence; The Tracker; and Australian Rules, a film about Australia's own football code. All these films have been subtitled into Indonesian.
BALGO presents a range of stories and ceremonies of the mythic Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) that Balgo artists paint in a new and vital art form that blends the ancient with the contemporary; the abstract with representations of landscape; the spiritual with the political.
Two Balgo artists Joan Nagomara and Imelda Gugaman, the Director of Warlayirti Artists Art Centre, Sally Clifford, and Head of Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University, Professor Anita Lee Hong, have accompanied the exhibition on its first international staging in Jakarta.
Dreaming Stories is sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in cooperation with the Australia International Cultural Council, Screen Australia and Artbank and with support from Qantas, BERRI, Weis Ice Cream, Curtin University, Four Seasons Hotel Jakarta, Cinemags and KangGURU Indonesia, it said. ***3***
