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Rainbow’s End

RAINBOW’S END, is a play by Jane Harrison, author of STOLEN (1998). Both of these plays have become part of the school HSC syllabus. RAINBOW’S END, written in 2005, is an evocation of the lives of three generations of First Nation’s women: the Yorta Yorta nation, in the 1950’s, in the Northern Victoria region of Sheparton and Mooroopna, on the banks of the Goulburn River. It is the gentle and tender telling of some social studies indigenous history. The history of the women seeking justice by voicing the need for better housing for their families, and finding that power through…

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Broken Glass

Photo by Joshua Morris Moogahlin Performing Arts and Blacktown Arts Centre present, BROKEN GLASS, for Sydney Festival 2018, at St Bartholomew’s Church and Cemetery, Prospect. 10 January – 21 January. BROKEN GLASS is an installation and performance that has been four years in development. The stories of the artists, Lily Shearer, Liza-Mare Syron, Andrea James, Aroha Graves and Katie Leslie are used ‘to remind us of the impact of colonisation on ancient practices associated with death and mourning in New South Wales and Victorian First Peoples’ communities’ and are based on their personal experiences of death and knowledge of historical…

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