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Federation Square, Feb-June 2013

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CHALLENGE:
The Light in Winter 2013: When does the light turn on? We are working with a team of artists from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre to create a 30min video installation for Melbourne’s Federation Square. The project includes a behind the scenes documentary and a series of online video provocations for the Light in Winter 2013.

In a series of workshops between Feb-June, our team is collaborating with over 75 contributors / Melbourne artists from migrant, refugee, Anglo-Australian, Indigenous and Pacific Islander backgrounds, to reflect on Light in Winter’s theme of ‘race, voice and power’. The resulting half hour experimental art work, ‘when does the light turn on?’, is screening throughout June on the Big Screen at Federation Square and online.

‘When does the light turn on?’ is part dance, part documentary, part moving image poetry: Australian citizens of the world share their insights, movements and stories about enlightenment, racism and change, and offer ‘gifts of light’ that come to life on screen as animations of light.

Change Media has joined Light in Winter 2013 to produce a collaborative digital video art work for Fed Square’s Big Screen and online environments, based on Change Media’s national co-creative art and community capacity building initiative.
The project engages with a wide range of Light in Winter’s participating communities during a series of workshops in Melbourne, with preparation and post production at Asylum Seekers Resource Centre venues and the Change Media studios. The collaboration with Fed Square will create a high quality, community driven new media work. Change Media’s aim is to produce innovative and engaging artwork relevant for a wider audience that creatively speaks to the issues of ‘compassion-fatigue’. Change Media’s method is based on a co-creative capacity building model; the artwork will include artists/ participants from the Light in Winter communities and the media production processes will involve artists from refugee backgrounds, some of them have collaborated on the project since 2011. The work merges two of our most successful and ambitious projects to date, The Perfect Refugee and A Penny For Your Thought initiative, both funded through the Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative.

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PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts CCPI; Asylum Seeker Resource Centre; Fed Square Light in Winter Festival 2013; VicHealth; VCA Centre for Cultural Partnerships; Tallstoreez Productionz

when does the light turn on?

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Click here to watch all 45 provocations at the Square of Light forum.

OUTCOMES:
Thanks for your generous sharing, your amazing creative input and all the hard work to get it done!

Change Media team:
Artistic Director – Jennifer Lyons-Reid
Creative Producer – Carl Kuddell
Director of Photography – Johanis Lyons-Reid
Editors – Jesse Miles and Jennifer Lyons-Reid
Special Effects – Felix Weber
Colour Grade – Johanis Lyons-Reid
Music – Jesse Miles

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre team:
Camera B – Ghokan Zorlu
Camera C – Adem Mohamedali Etel
Slow motion camera – Mirhat Turan and Adem Mohamedali Etel
Production Manager – Kate Murray
ASRC Supporters – Raj Yadev, Courtney Green and Bonnie Dunstone

Fed Square team:
Artistic Director Light in Winter – Robyn Archer
Program Manager – Matt Jones
Creative Projects Manager – Renee Dudfield
Creative Producer Community Participation – Nadja Kostich

On-screen Contributors:
Larry Walsh
Rob Bundle
Sista Zai
Cece Ojany
Shabbir Wahid
Catherine Simmonds
Ubah Badi
Essan Dileri
Robyn Archer
Yomal Krishan Rajasinghe
Paul Janes
John Gray
Lib Diop
Emeretta Cross
Esmeralda Araiza
Tony Yap

Square of Light contributors:
Carolyn Briggs
Lou Bennett and the Light in Winter choir ensemble
Tony Yap Company
Catherine Simmonds and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre performers

…and all the other artists, performers and contributors that made Light in Winter what it is…

Also a special thanks to the Australian Nursing Federation Victoria, for the use of their fabulous venue!

Square of Light is proudly supported by VicHealth

This Change Media project is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts Community Partnership – CCPI

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Coorong, SA April 2013

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Media Release April 21, 2013
‘Tom Trevorrow passes away’
It is with considerable sadness that we announce the passing of Mr Thomas Trevorrow at the age of 58 years from a heart attack at his office at Camp Coorong, Meningie.
Mr Trevorrow was a strong and proud Ngarrindjeri man and a leading advocate for Aboriginal Rights in Australia. He worked throughout his life to better the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people and to support the advancement and recognition of the Ngarrindjeri People. With his wife Ellen, Tom worked for 30 years to develop program’s like the Ngarrindjeri Lands and Progress Association and Camp Coorong that fostered and supported Ngarrindjeri culture, arts and tradition, such as weaving. Tom shared with Ellen a commitment to enriching the life of the Ngarrindjeri community and ensured this focus was integral to the development of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. He worked closely alongside his brother, Mr George Trevorrow and his Ngarrindjeri brother, Mr Mathew Rigney.
Tom Trevorrow was highly respected by all for his wisdom and insight into Aboriginal matters and a key leader in advancing Indigenous issues. His contribution to asserting the position of Aboriginal People and its proper relationship to Governments and non-Indigenous people was significant at state and national levels. His reputation as an Indigenous leader and educator was internationally recognised. He was a sought after speaker by political leaders at all levels of government, by universities, local councils and community organisations. Mr Trevorrow was highly respected for his spiritual and cultural life. He was a person of great honesty and personal integrity. He will be sadly missed by many people.
Tom Trevorrow believed strongly that the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people needed healing. He felt that the government did not consistently act in a meaningful or respectful manner in its dealings with Indigenous People. This was particularly the case when issues of power and control of government were being challenged by Indigenous People. Mr Trevorrow believed that the original promises of a just settlement in the 1836 Letters Patent for South Australia needed to be followed through by the State Government and that a treaty needed to be negotiated between Indigenous People and the State Government. He thought that a treaty would be a powerful healer of the pain felt by Aboriginal People in their daily lives and would provide justice to those who had passed without knowing it, and provide a proper platform for those Indigenous People living in the future.

Ngarrindjeri Elder Tom Trevorrow

Click the link to watch – Tribute to Tom Trevorrow
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Tom Trevorrow was a highly respected Ngarrindjeri man. He worked endlessly and tirelessly to advance Ngarrindjeri interests, whether this was as a group of people or for individual Ngarrindjeri people. He was Manager of Camp Coorong: Race Relations and Cultural Education Centre and Chair of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. He had a deep cultural understanding of his lands and waters, he knew that the lands and waters need not to be disconnected from the Ngarrindjeri People and he fought hard with governments to make them better understand. He passes with the knowledge that the government does have a better understanding of these issues. He passes knowing his beloved Ngarrindjeri People are strong and have a good base upon which to build their relationships.
Tom Trevorrow will be sadly missed by many people but the work he did throughout his life will continue to influence people’s lives into the future. Our condolences to Tom Trevorrow’s extended family including his uncles and aunties, his brothers and sisters, his wife, Ellen and their children, Thomas, Frank, Bruce, Tanya, Joe, Luke and Hank and his grandchildren.

Media Release Tom Trevorrow 19 April 2013

SA Premier Jay Weatherill

SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
The tribute was screened during the funeral ceremony as thousands mourners paid their respects in Meningie, South Australia.

IMPACT & FEEDBACK:

Unfortunately we were unable to attend the funeral and farewell ceremonies in Menigie, as we were already booked and paid to be in Melbourne that day – but we said our good-byes to Tom over hours and hours of editing on the tribute. Luke had requested us to produce a tribute video that would serve as a memento of his fathers work and achievements.

We feel privileged to have had the chance to work with Tom for so many years; from Jen’s work with him, Uncle Matt and Uncle George and other Elders on the Hindmarsh Island bridge campaigns in the nineties, to our digital media projects with him over the last 5 years. Beyond his amazing work as an advocate for Indigenous lands right and cross-cultural understanding, Tom also was a visionary leader who early on saw the power of digital media for the Ngarrindjeri communities. Tom, your voice will be thoroughly missed.

Jen, Carl, Johanis, Jesse and Felix from Change Media

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headspace, Adelaide, SA Jan 2013

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CHALLENGE:
For their first project of the year, the Change Media team got together with headspace Adelaide Northern and their YAC(youth advisory committee) to create a fun and engaging virtual tour. During a two day workshop at the centre the team brainstormed and shot the film, which was aimed to make the service more accessible, fun and friendly and give some information about it for those considering accessing it.
PARTNERS:
Australia Council for the Arts; Arts SA; headspace

headspace Virtual Tour

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OUTCOMES:
The participants were part of a professional production, building on previous experiences from their July 2012 workshop with Change Media. Participants learned good interview skills, set dressing, and lighting theory.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates!

IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
“It looks professional and fresh and colourful and !!!!!! So excited about it! Thanks to everyone for giving us the opportunity to make something that will hopefully help more young people feel brave enough to come to headspace!”
-Suzzane

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Coorong, SA Dec 2012 – Feb 2013

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CHALLENGE:
The Change Media team partnered with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority in association with the SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources to produce a collaborative community-driven documentary about the Ngarrindjeri lands and waters and The Living Murray Initiative’s ICON sites during a four day capacity building workshop in Dec 2012 and edit process in Jan-Feb 2013 with the Ngarrindjeri Media Team.

FUNDING PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport; Australia Council for the Arts; Arts SA; Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority; Tallstoreez Productionz.
Produced in association with the South Australian Government Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, and the Murray Darling Basin Authority.

Flow – Life Giving Lands and Waters

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OUTCOMES:
Our crew worked with 12 scientists selected by DEWNR and the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, to address a series of issues about managing the River Murray, the Lower Lakes and the Coorong. Over 4 days we investigate the different western scientific and economic approaches, in comparison with Ngarrindjeri knowledge and cultural practice shared by their elders, and find out how both sides can work together for a better understanding of the fragile environment of the Ngarrindjeri lands and waters.

SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
The 26min documentary is available on DVD now. DEWNR will use it for screenings at community events such as the World Wetlands Day, distribute copies to the Murray Darling Basin Authority and other organizations, and they also planning a joint launch together with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. Stay tuned for updates!

IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
The film has already triggered some interesting responses, a researcher from Flinders University said the film sets a new benchmark for collaborations between Indigenous communities and government departments, especially on the contentious issue of water and land management and related cultural rights.
We also have been asked to co-present Flow at the World Indigenous Network conference in Darwin in May 2013.
The Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority will use the documentary also as part of their Native Title claim, as it provides supporting evidence of their ongoing cultural connection to their land and waters. If our work can make a contribution on this level, then may be not all is lost…

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ASRC, West Melbourne, VIC Nov 2012

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CHALLENGE:
This was the second workshop with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. We continued work on their video for a virtual tour of the centre and developed artistic concepts for the series of debunking asylum seeker myths and train the trainer tool kits.

PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Asylum Seeker Resource Centre; OurCommunity; VCA Centre for Cultural Partnerships; Tallstoreez Productionz

ASRC media training

click the link to watch – ASRC Virtual Tour

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OUTCOMES:
The final virtual tour will be finished in January 2013, this workshop was focusing on co-creative editing and shooting additional action and interviews for each of the 5 pillars at ASRC.
The team reviewed footage an assembly edits from the first 2-day workshop and identified missing interviews and overlay footage.
We collaborated on the narrative structure, to find a creative solution for a promotional video that will appeal to potential supporters as a fund raising tool, but also would stay true to the reality of asylum seekers and their supporters at ASRC.

SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates!

IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
One of the most important aspects were the directorial discussions with the asylum seeker team, to make sure the video will hit the right tone, represent asylum seekers reality well, while being slick enough for a virtual tour/ campaigning/ fundraising tool.
Interesting debates around political representation, the spin of ‘authenticity’… – an amazing cross-cultural collaboration, we can’t wait to get started on the bigger campaign!

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