Are you passionate about finding creative solutions for a climate-impacted future?
Join award-winning artists Dr Jen Rae and Claire G Coleman (Centre for Reworlding) for a palaver – a generative conversation to find "joy work" in these desperate times.
Palavers are (anti-) facilitated discussions grounded in relationality, similar to a talking, yarning or knowledge circle used for conflict resolution and collaborative conversations. For this palaver, the artists will provide cues and provocations to get us thinking creatively about how we might prepare for the reality of climate change.
Informed by First Nations knowledge systems and collective Centre for Reworlding’s protocols, these discussions are a space to sit in the unknown while bringing forth the collective experience and knowledge of the group.
Arrive half hour before the starting time to watch Refugium – a speculative futurist film produced by Centre for Reworlding exhibited as part of the SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed.
Free, booking required.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Dr Jen Rae is an award-winning artist and researcher of Canadian Scottish-Métis descent living on unceded Djaara Country (Castlemaine) Australia. She is recognised for her practice and expertise situated at the intersections of art, speculative futures and climate emergency disaster adaptation + resilience. She is a co-founder and the Creative Research Lead at the Centre for Reworlding. Jen has been the recipient of prestigious awards such as the Creative Australia Fellowship for Emerging and Experimental Art and the Australian National University’s H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship.
Claire G Coleman is a Noongar woman whose ancestral country is on the south coast of Western Australia. She was born in Boorloo (Perth) and is currently based in Naarm. Her debut novel Terra Nullius (2017) won a Norma K. Hemming Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and an Aurealis Award. Her essays, poetry, short fiction, and art criticism has been published widely. Claire is a co-founder and Lead Writer at the Centre for Reworlding and is currently working on a commissioned play for the Malthouse Theatre.
Grounded in First Nations knowledge systems and protocols, the Centre for Reworlding is a brave 100-year project. The Centre’s focus is on working towards intergenerational justice, building creative resilience and applying intersectional collaborative approaches in how we work with others— so we can adapt climate disaster risk reduction and resilience strategies to meet the needs of diverse communities.