6th June 2011
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Arts, Community, Education, Environment, Health, Music, Recovery, Story Telling, Victorian Bushfires
Screen content developed for presentation of Illuminated by Fire at Federation Square, Melbourne, as part of the Light in Winter festival, 29 June - 3 July 2011.
6th June 2011
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Arts, Community, Cultural Exchange, Education, Environment, Story Telling, Victorian Bushfires
Lennie Hayes relates the dreamtime story of how the fire finch first brought fire to the Kurnai / Gunai people of Gippsland in eastern Victoria.
28th October 2010
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Arts, Community, Education, Environment, Recovery, Story Telling, Victorian Bushfires
Lance Robilliard is a man who knows how to describe fire. Here, burning off an old tree felled by a storm, he provides a running commentary on the progress and behaviour of the fire as it builds in the wind. (As Lance says, don’t try this in your backyard at home!)
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5th October 2010
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Arts, Community, Cultural Exchange, Education, Environment, Story Telling, Victorian Bushfires
Bruce Baxter is an Aboriginal man of Wiradjuri descent, living near Swan Hill in northern Victoria. For many years Bruce has performed smoking ceremonies intended to cleanse the spirit of people and places. Here, Bruce tells how he came to be a “keeper of the smoke” and explains why he performs these ceremonies.
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11th September 2010
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Arts, Community, Education, Emergency, Environment, Recovery, Story Telling, Victorian Bushfires
Phillip Wierzbowski spent ten years building a house in the bush just outside Healsville, east of Melbourne. In February 2009, while he was away overseas, bushfire destroyed the house and all his possessions. Here, Phillip contemplates the cost of living in a place where fire has always been a part of the natural environment.
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10th September 2010
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Arts, Community, Cultural Exchange, Education, Environment, Recovery, Story Telling, Victorian Bushfires
Dianne Simmonds is captain of the Country Fire Authority at Christmas Hills on the outskirts of Melbourne. Like many other locals, she moved to this area attracted by the bush and the semi-rural lifestyle. She understands however that bushfire is an ever-present hazard. Here, she weighs up the risks associated with making a home in this kind of environment.
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10th September 2010
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Arts, Community, Education, Emergency, Environment, Recovery, Story Telling, Victorian Bushfires
Lance Robilliard has lived and worked all his life on a dairy farm near Camperdown in western Victoria. Fire has always been a part of the toolbox he uses to manage things on the farm. Here, he reflects on the knowledge required to work safely with fire and laments the fact that, today, many people seem to have lost this knowledge.
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8th September 2010
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Arts, Community, Cultural Exchange, Education, Environment, Recovery, Story Telling, Victorian Bushfires
Archana Patney is an Indian woman now living in Swan Hill in northern Victoria. A practising Hindu, she is committed to maintaining some traditional rituals within her new Australian environment. Here, Archana demonstrates the making of a rangoli, explaining as she does so the importance of Agni, the Hindi god of fire.
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