Connection time
Venue: Bribie Island Seaside Museum
Date: Wednesday 6 December
Time: 10:30 – 12:30
About
This event will focus on presenting talks from a number of First Nations cultural leaders, science communicators and artists working with scientists and scientific on themes related to oceans, their ecosystems and stories.
Presenters
Desna Whaanga-Schollum (Aoteraroa NZ)
Sandy Sur (Vanuatu)
Dr Sarah Jane Pell (Monash)
Dr Leah Barclay (USC)
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Biographies
Desna Whaanga-Schollum
Rongomaiwahine, Kahungunu, Pāhauwera. Ngāi Tahu Matawhaiti.
Resident in her iwi territories on the East Coast of Aotearoa NZ, Desna is actively involved in indigenous discourse, working towards reinscribing ancestral narratives in the landscape, acknowledging respect for, and reciprocal relationships with, place. Māori Communications Advisor for Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge, an Ambassador for Landscape Foundation NZ, Desna collaborates with a diverse range of communities, artists, scientists, academics, public servants and business professionals.
Sandy Sur
Sandy Sur leads the Leweton Culture Experience in the community of Leweton on the Island of Santo, Vanuatu. The Leweton Cultural Experience is made up of related families from 6 villages from the islands of Merelava and Gaua. The village is home to the Leweton Women Water Drummers, an amazing display of percussion where water is the instrument.
The water music is performed by the Leweton Cultural Experience where the drummers present, share and maintain their unique cultural traditions and practices across cultures and generations. Sandy also works closely with Elders to promote the connections of their mother language Bislama, to identity, place and relationships to ecosystems.
Dr Sarah Jane Pell
The research of Dr. Sarah Jane Pell focuses on the relationship between technological innovation, advanced life support, human factors research, and aesthetic practices in sea and space exploration domains. Pell has extended experience in the visual and performing arts developing new choreographies and expertise in developing multimedia platforms, by converging audio visual new media and traditional arts medias and commercially relevant industry regulation, equipment, technologies and science protocols. Her previous dissertation, Aquabatics as new works of Live Art, explored aqueous philosophies and issues around the human performance experience underwater through practical and theoretical examinations of the diving body producing innovative live art performance laboratories, prototype life support and pneumatic technologies, operational protocols and manuals for the practice of Aquabatics.
Dr Leah Barclay
Dr Leah Barclay is an Australian sound artist, composer and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. She specialises in electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology and emerging fields of biology exploring environmental patterns and changes through sound. Her work has been commissioned, performed and exhibited to wide acclaim across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Peru, Colombia, Europe, India, South Africa, China and Korea by organisations including UNESCO, Ear to the Earth, Streaming Museum, Al Gore’s Climate Reality and the IUCN. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and has directed and curated interdisciplinary projects across the Asia-Pacific and USA.
Get in touch
You can reach out to the organising team if you have any questions at admin at treecreate dot org.
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