Newport Artist Mick Glasheen is taking his exhibition Drawing on the Land - GARIGAL COUNTRY on the road from Palm Beach to Pasadena.
First held in the Newport Community Centre last year, Mick is staging this exhibition in three local reserves over three weekends in December to raise money to support the purchase of the endangered littoral rainforest above Porter Reserve, Newport, so that it may be integrated into the adjoining Attunga and Porter Reserves.
The exhibition began yesterday in the Governor Phillip Park, Palm Beach for the weekend of December 1/ 2.
Featured are large scale panoramic paintings of Aboriginal rock engraving sites in the Kur-Ing-Gai National Park - such as the iconic “Emu in the Milky Way” and “Rainbow Snake” sites off the Elvina track.
Also showing is Dancing with Strangers, Mick’s first History painting - depicting the first encounter of Europeans with Aboriginal people on the shores of Pittwater in March,1788. The work fuses a sketch by William Bradley with Mick's luminous visions.
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Dancing with Strangers
Bowen Bungaree descendant Neil Evers gave the Welcome to Country, sharing insights into his ancestors connection with the very spot he stood on and some of the Europeans Bowen would have had interactions with along the stretch of sand we now call 'Station Beach'. Neil recounted Bowen's service for those he found in his home while standing alongside Barrenjoey Headland, where his ancestor once had a camp.
Despite the NSW Education Department stating public school students would face disciplinary action should they attend Friday’s Big School Walk Out for Climate Change, the Sydney strike went ahead with many Peninsula students among their number, some accompanied by their parents. The students came from every age range and from many local primary and high schools.
The Organisers of the nation-wide strikes said 15,000 students took part in events held in every capital city and in 20 regional towns on Friday. There were also lots of events in smaller areas where schools’ students banded together to in their strikes.
Some ‘strikes’ were held in school grounds, with students walking outside, turning off lights and air-conditioning during the strike time.
In areas where there were no strikes organised, such as Leeton, some students walked out of school at 12 pm, strike time, and spent their allotted ‘strike’ hours writing emails to MP’s to communicate their thoughts on the matter.
Around 5000 strikers attended the Sydney event held in Martin Place.
Chants such as "What do we want? Climate action. When do we want it? Now," and "Hey hey, ho ho, ScoMo has got to go," in reference to the Prime Minister, echoed around the concourse.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said earlier this week the nation needed "more learning in schools and less activism".
The Prime Ministers’ response was to questions asked by Member for Melbourne Adam Bandt who asked whether the Prime Minister would join him in praising the students for having a go and whether he would meet with and listen to their demands for action on climate change and to keep coal in the ground.
The questions were asked in response to this letter, posted on the School Strike For Climate Action website:
Dear Mr Prime Minister Morrison,
My name is Portia Solari. I am 17 years old and live in Cronulla, in your electorate.
I am joining hundreds of kids around the country this week to send a message to you as the leader of our country to please take our futures seriously.
Climate change is a crisis and it’s already hurting people in Australia and other people around the world. It will only get worse if you don’t take urgent action to make it better.
Otherwise me and other kids will not have as good a chance as you did to have a good life.
We are striking from school to show how serious we are.
We are willing to risk our education because this problem is so important to us, and we don’t understand what the point of learning facts at school is if politicians keep ignoring them.
Please will you meet with us and at least hear what we have to say?
I can meet you in your office in our community with some of my friends?
And other kids will be at Parliament House this Wednesday —can you meet with them and hear what they have to say?
We need to know that you are serious about protecting our futures or what hope do we have?
Yours sincerely
Portia
Monika and Pepper
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