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Events and audio tour developed as part of the Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition.

Future-proofing: retelling story case studies

This session from the Living Songlines symposium begins with the Songlines exhibition and its relationship to future-proofing songlines, and continues to explore these questions in detail.
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Presenters: John Bradley, Scott Cane, Kim Mahood, Margo Neale and Mathew Trinca

Future-proofing: literature and art

This session from the Living Songlines symposium explores the relationship between Indigenous storytelling and the ancient stories of other cultures, and the potential for future-proofing songlines.
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Presenters: Paola Balla, Paul Collis, Lisa Fuller, Ian McLean, Margo Neale, Matt Poll, Una Rey, Lisa Slade and Jen Webb

Future-proofing: through technology

This session from the Living Songlines symposium explores the possibilities of digitising the Dreaming and how songlines work virtually through digital storytelling.
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Presenters: Sarah Kenderdine, Margo Neale, Cornel Ozies, Curtis Taylor and Lynette Wallworth

Songlines symposium: conversation

The Living Songlines symposium ends with a Question and Answer session between panellists and the audience that teases out the key themes and issues of the day’s discussion.
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Presenters: John Bradley, Ian McLean, Margo Neale, Matt Poll and Lynette Wallworth

Word for word — Songlines

Explore the languages of Australia’s first peoples and how words that often defy translation into English carry knowledge, culture and a way of being in the world.
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Presenters: Sarah Burr, Paul Collis, Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis and Nardi Simpson

Telling the story of Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters

Behind-the-scenes stories from the curators of travelling with Aboriginal artists and recording and telling their stories in the lead up to the Songlines exhibition.
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Presenters: Christiane Keller and Sita McAlpine

Behind the technology – creating the dome

Fulldome artist Peter Morse discusses the latest technology behind the digital dome on show in the Songlines exhibition, with an outline of the artworks and film featured in the Walinynga (Cave Hill) and Seven Sisters experiences.

Songlines: the foundational Australian story

Defining and understanding Aboriginal songlines as epic foundational stories and part of the Dreaming, Jukurrpa, using modern digital storytelling.
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Presenters: Paul Barclay, Margo Neale, Alison Page, Scott Rankin and Curtis Taylor

Creating and curating Songlines

The fascinating story of how the exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters came into being, over a period of more than five year, as told by the lead curator.

Songlines audio journey

Connect with the Seven Sisters as they travel across the land pursued by a mischievous shape-shifter in this audio tour originally developed for the Songlines exhibition. Contains sexual references.
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Presenters: Alison Page, Duncan Smith and Ursula Yovich
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