Flying Arts Industry Booth at Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF)
26jul(jul 26)9:00 am28(jul 28)3:00 pm
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Your facilitators: Darren Blackman is a proud Gureng Gureng/Gangalu man from Queensland’s central coast with Kanak South Sea Island heritage from Vanuatu. Blackman grew up in the Sunshine Coast town of Nambour and has been living and working throughout the Far North and Western Queensland since 1995. Through this work, Blackman speaks to some of the issues at the centre of the Australian Government’s Close the Gap campaign, that set intent to achieve health, education and employment equality by 2030 and reduce the seventeen-year life-expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples. Touching on oral history from his Elders and reworking those messages, Blackman channels personal observations and his lived experience, to witness a wide range of Aboriginal perspectives and mainstream political and media inference.
Chantel Bates delights in working alongside regional artists and administrators to support sustainable cultural activities in regional communities, ultimately strengthening the social and economic fabric of the arts industry. Notably, Chantel is also an Aboriginal Artist herself deeply dedicated to strengthening and promoting inclusion of First Nations voices in the development of Indigenous art. Chantel’s passion for the arts shines in the By Request program as she is able to enrich the arts sector by overseeing engaging arts programs to communities all across Queensland. She takes pride in continuing the legacy of the founder of Flying Arts Alliance – Mervyn Moriarty OAM and his iconic legacy as a passionate and dedicated arts teacher and educator.