First of all, my sincere apologies for not blogging for some time. I've been very busy developing up a new initiative, the first part of which has just been recently launched. On Saturday 10th November, we let people know that our new Storytelling, Education & Healing online resource, The Carrolup Story, was now live.
This initiative has been developed with John Stanton, former Director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at The University of Western Australia, and Ash Whitney, a web developer in Neath, South Wales (UK). We are very excited about our new website and the response from our audience has been very positive to date.
'Traumatised Aboriginal children living in the squalor of a 1940s government native settlement in Western Australia create beautiful landscape drawings that gain international acclaim and challenge a government's racist policies.'
Please check out the website and my Welcome. You can read a summary of this enthralling Story described in 12 parts. In addition, we summarise the importance of the project and I describe how the project developed from my perspective. John starts describing his role in his first blog. There are lots of other sections to browse through. Details of our Facebook page and Facebook Group are provided the website.
Of course, this is only the first stage of the website. John Stanton and I will both be blogging regularly, and we will have guest bloggers in the future. An eBook, The Aboriginal Child Artists of Carrolup, will be published early in 2019. We are also planning a feature-length documentary film which will involve leading Cinematographer Simon Akkerman.
We hope you enjoy the new website. Feel free to let us know what you think. Meanwhile, I leave you with a film clip of John Stanton talking about the importance of the project during an interview with myself.
This initiative has been developed with John Stanton, former Director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at The University of Western Australia, and Ash Whitney, a web developer in Neath, South Wales (UK). We are very excited about our new website and the response from our audience has been very positive to date.
'Traumatised Aboriginal children living in the squalor of a 1940s government native settlement in Western Australia create beautiful landscape drawings that gain international acclaim and challenge a government's racist policies.'
Please check out the website and my Welcome. You can read a summary of this enthralling Story described in 12 parts. In addition, we summarise the importance of the project and I describe how the project developed from my perspective. John starts describing his role in his first blog. There are lots of other sections to browse through. Details of our Facebook page and Facebook Group are provided the website.
Of course, this is only the first stage of the website. John Stanton and I will both be blogging regularly, and we will have guest bloggers in the future. An eBook, The Aboriginal Child Artists of Carrolup, will be published early in 2019. We are also planning a feature-length documentary film which will involve leading Cinematographer Simon Akkerman.
We hope you enjoy the new website. Feel free to let us know what you think. Meanwhile, I leave you with a film clip of John Stanton talking about the importance of the project during an interview with myself.
