Past Event

Fri 8 Sep

West End Stories

Brisbane Festival and the Queensland Government Present

West End Stories
West End Stories

Meanjin Recovered.

With Jessie Lloyd, Aunty Dawn Daylight, Uncle Adam Hopkins, Uncle Barry Tanner, Auntie Chantay Link, Kylie Deen & West End Community House

Songwriter Jessie Lloyd, Brisbane Blacks Elders Aunty Dawn Daylight, Uncle Adam Hopkins, Uncle Barry Tanner, Auntie Chantay Link and Kylie Deen and the team from West End Community House come together to present Meanjin Recovered.

This world-premiere show weaves storytelling and song writing tools to illustrate an historical timeline of Meanjin Brisbane through the lens of First Nations people. Meanjin Recovered documents the history of the city as we know it today… but perhaps not in a way you have had the opportunity to hear before. 

Join Jessie, the Brisbane Blacks Elders, Kylie and West End Community House as they engage in truth telling practice to share the vital history of these lands.


Where

The Norman Price Theatre,
TAFE Queensland,

Building C, 66 Ernest St, South Brisbane QLD 4101,

Venue info

Accessibility

Wheelchair access

Important Info

Free parking is available after 5pm at on-campus parking via Merivale Street

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#Artists

Jessie Lloyd

Jessie Lloyd

Jessie Lloyd is a Songkeeper. An Australia Aboriginal singer, social historian and cultural practitioner of Indigenous song and founder of her award-winning Mission Songs Project.

Auntie Chantay Link

Auntie Chantay Link

I am a Gurang Gurang/Kabi Kabi woman born and bred in Brisbane. I am a member of Breaking Silent Codes, a group of Pacific women working with family violence. I am a weaver, a story teller, a playwright and composer.

Auntie Dawn Daylight

Auntie Dawn Daylight

An elder and traditional owner of the Jaggara with blood ties to Turrabul through her mothers. Her parents were residents at Purgah mission and was a part of the removed generation. She is also the resident elder of YYWW.

Uncle Adam Hopkins

Uncle Adam Hopkins

Uncle Adam is well known elder in Brisbane Aboriginal community representing the Gurang Gurang/Wakka Wakka and South Sea islander communities. A resident elder of Murri courts and a director at Jagera Community Hall at Musgrave Park.

Uncle Barry Tanner

Uncle Barry Tanner

A Bidjera and Gamileroi man who was raised on Wakka Wakka country. He has lived in Brisbane most of his life and is a freeloader.

Kylie Deen

Kylie Deen

Kylie Deen is a Gubbi Gubbi woman who is the First Nations Community Development worker at West End Community House and local community organiser.

How to get there

The Norman Price Theatre,
TAFE Queensland,

Building C, 66 Ernest St, South Brisbane QLD 4101,

Getting there

Brisbane Festival expresses deep respect to and acknowledges the First People of this Country.