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We extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, recognising their resilience and ongoing connection to land, water and culture, despite ongoing colonial interruption and genocide.
Always was, always will be, sacred Indigenous land.
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Kirra-Lee and Bryce are at the servo. The jerry can is half-full. One phone’s flat and the other one’s out of credit.
Garren’s on his BMX. The shit one. He knows all about what it can do, and its limits. He knows the tracks he doesn’t want to go down. Fightin an that. He knows there’s other ways. There’s gotta be other ways.
Uncle Laurie does his wood carving and runs a men’s group. He’s been off the grog for a while now.
They’re all trying to get to Uncle Pat’s funeral. But when they get there, what stories will be told, and what will be left unspoken?
Monday 28 Oct | 4PM (Open Dress Run)
Northcote Town Hall
Monday 28 Oct | 7.30PM (Opening Night)
Northcote Town Hall
Tuesday 29 October | 2.30PM
Thorne Harbour Health
Positive Living Centre
51 Commercial Road
South Yarra
Wednesday 30 October | 7.30PM
Kensington Town Hall
Main Hall
30-34 Bellair Street
Kensington
Thursday 31 October | 1PM
Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative
BACAC
5 Market Street
Ballarat
Thursday 31 October | 5PM
Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative
BACAC
5 Market Street
Ballarat
Monday 4 November | 11.30PM
Bendigo and District Aboriginal Cooperative
View Street
Engine Room
Bendigo
Wednesday 6 November | 9AM
Mallee District Aboriginal Services
MDAS Community Hall
70 Nyah Road
Swan Hill
Wednesday 6 November | 3.30PM
Mallee District Aboriginal Services
MDAS Community Hall
120 Madden Avenue
Mildura
Thursday 7 November | 2PM
Bunjilwarra
197A Golf Links Road
Hastings
Friday 8 November | 12PM
Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA)
1-7 Langhorne Street
Dandenong
Saturday 9 November | 2.45PM
*This session is part of Open Spaces Festival 2019
Wurundjeri/Woiwurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation
Abbotsford Convent
North Laundry
1 St Heliers Street
Abbotsford
Tuesday 12 November | 1.30PM
Gippsland and East Gipplsand Aboriginal Co-Operative (GEGAC)
Keeping Place
Bairnsdale
Thursday 14 November | 12PM
Healesville Yarra Ranges
The Memo
235 Maroondah Highway
Healesville
Thank you to all the deadly young people who contributed to the development of SCAR TREES through sharing their stories and experiences.
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company’s SCAR TREES is supported by Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA), The Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and VicHealth.
Photo: Tiffany Garvie
Dion Williams
Maurial Spearim
Racheal Oak Butler
Writer Declan Furber Gillick
Dramaturg and Director Kamarra Bell-Wykes
Producers Emily Butcher & J-Maine Beezley
Social Impact Producer Lisa Parris
Family Violence Support Coordinator Nazaree Dickerson
Set and Sound Design Small Sound
Stage and Production Brock Brocklesby
Costume Consultant Jacinta Keefe
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