Two Fires Festival


		Reading the Threads A dance theatre performance by Terpsichore's Aunts with composer and cellist Helen Way. Drawing together the threads of six inspiring Australian women's lives through their words: featuring the words of Judith Wright, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, Rosalie Gascoigne and others. Terpsichore's Aunts are 6 Canberra women, creating dance from everyday movement. They first staged Reading the Threads as part of a longer dance work in September 2007 and have now developed this piece especially for Two Fires with the words of Australian women, many of them from our local region. The performers are Jane Ingall (choreographic director), Julie Rickwood, Jackie Westcombe, Anne Embry, Heather Boyer and Margy Wylde-Browne.

John Maynard is Professor of Indigenous Studies and Head of Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies at the University of Newcastle. He is an Australian Research Council post-doctoral fellow and a Council Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and with the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council (IHEAC) and NSW History Council. His traditional roots lie with the Worimi people of Port Stephens – New South Wales. He was the recipient of the Aboriginal History (ANU) Stanner Fellowship for 1996 and the New South Wales Premiers Indigenous History Fellowship for 2003. He gained his PhD in 2003 examining the rise of early Aboriginal political activism.
John was a member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association 2000-2002 and has worked with and within many Aboriginal communities urban, rural and remote. He is the author of five books including Aboriginal Stars of the Turf and the Fight for Liberty and Freedom.

My name is Trisha Ellis. My Aboriginal name is Minga. I belong to the Brinja-Djuwin people who are one of the Dhurga speaking clans. My home is, today, called Moruya. In Aboriginal times it was known to the local people as Cobowra.

I am a Joint Management Co-ordinator with the Dept. of Environment & Climate Change & work out of the Narooma Office. It is in this role that I am Editor of "Coastal Custodians". Chairperson of the Cobowra Local Aboriginal Land Council, I have been an active advocate for Aboriginal people in my area for at least 30 years.


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