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2016 ZEST FESTIVAL EDUCATION PACK EENDRACHT: UNITY, ACCEPTING A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE CONTENTS Zest Festival 2012 to 2016 5 Explorers 7 VOC and Heren XVII 9 Dirk Hartog and 2016 Celebrations 11 Historical Context: Eendracht 13 Hartog’s Plate 15 Geography 17 The Final Festival 19 A World of Difference 23 Dutch Golden Age Art 25 Malacca / Melaka 27 Historical Context: History of Malacca 29 Historical Context: Portuguese Rule 31 Historical Context: Dutch Rule in Malacca 33 Historical Context: European Missionaries 35 | 2 ABOUT THE ZEST FESTIVAL The Zest Festival was created in 2012 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Zuytdorp shipwreck and the cultural heritage of the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) in Western Australia. Each year the Zest Festival highlights the cultural contribution of a country along the VOC trading route. In 2016 we commemorate the Hartog 400th anniversary, explore the trading port of Malacca, and celebrate all our wonderful differences. IMPLEMENTATION We encourage teachers to deliver these activities across term three, to coincide with the Zest Festival on 17 - 18 September 2016. Each page includes themed classroom activities which can be adapted to suit different years. CONTACT For more information contact the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE), Education Outreach Officer at [email protected]. CHE aims to provide leadership in humanities research worldwide into how societies thought, felt and functioned in Europe, 1100 – 1800, and how this long history continues to impact on present day Australia. Learn more at historyofemotions.org.au/ | 3 | 4 ZEST FESTIVAL 2012 TO 2016 In June 1712 the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship the Zuytdorp crashed into the rugged coast of Western Australia between Shark Bay and Kalbarri. The Zuytdorp survivors built a bonfire hoping to attract the attention of passing ships, but no rescue ships were sent to find them, and the crew never returned to their homeland. The Company had often encouraged contact with the Indigenous populations and now the survival of the crew lay in their hands. Nhanda descendants in the region today believe the encounter did occur, resulting in a peaceful union of two worlds more than 300 years ago. cliffs of Western Australia. The music and dance of South Africa had us moving and opened our hearts to be moved by stories of the Cape. The Zest Festival is inspired by such significant collisions 2014: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India. We compared textiles, between two worlds on the Western Australian coast. This dance, philosophy and religions of the regions as they five-year event is the cultural pulse that is carrying Kalbarri responded to Dutch commerce. It sparked thoughts about and nearby communities to the 400th anniversary of the the values of local versus global and trading and relations, landing by Dirk Hartog in 2016. Through ancient crafts such whilst still retaining cultural integrity and identity. as storytelling, and the trading and tasting of spices, we explore our cultural connections and express life today. The 2015: China and Japan. This year, we explored the Zest Festival looks to the future of regional communities mysterious and alluring intoxication of new things: tea, silk, through a unique historical lens. The power of human porcelain, ceremonies and access to new ways of thinking. emotion weaves its way through past stories While we focused on the human desire to attain new and and experiences. beautiful things, we also acknowledged the exchange of science, knowledge and innovation. We explored the role of Each year the Zest Festival focuses on a place - a country, fashion, the art of origami, the skill of flower arranging and countries or region - that was connected to the crafting of fine objects. Designers and artists have been international network of the Dutch East India Company in commissioned to create works inspired by the Orient and our region. The following summarise the festivals and their our partnerships with China and Japan. meanings from 2012 to 2016. 2016: Unity: Accepting a world of difference. Our final 2012: The Netherlands, Kalbarri and the Zuytdorp. festival will unite the cultures of the VOC together in a The inaugural Zest Festival in June 2012 celebrated the celebration that remembers the youthful energy of young 300th anniversary of the shipwreck of the Zuytdorp in 1712, sailors, explorers and women who had the spirit to travel to and brought to life for visitors and the local community the foreign lands or waited for loved ones to return. This is cultural connections between Australia and the where we add beer into our spice fare and raise a glass to Netherlands. all those who’ve preceded us. We recognise their 2013: The Cape, South Africa. A critical place to rest, contributions to Australian society now and into the future. restock and recrew the ships. It makes us question who We toast to the human qualities that opened up new would have joined the Zuytdorp and placed their fate at the possibilities and connections to the world. Image: Zest Festival bunting from Kalbarri District High School. | 5 | 6 EXPLORERS ACTIVITIES Hall of Fame Planning Who were the men that sailed the seas for profit and Challenge students to plan their own exploration. This purpose? could include maps, a risk assessment of potential obstacles and solutions, lists of equipment and resources, Set up an explorers’ hall of fame in the classroom. Add a a purpose statement, a budget and a timetable. biography of one explorer each week, including a picture, biography and a brief induction speech highlighting why they deserve to be in the hall of fame. Assign each student Riddle me this or pair an explorer and week. In the early weeks of term the The Zest Festival plans to work with a group of comedians biographies could be contributed by the teacher as a to write a comedic skit about the famous explorers that demonstration. landed on our shores. Encourage students to write jokes Excellent biographies of Captains Hartog, Pelsaert, about the explorers they have studied. Send the best ones Tasman, Vlamingh and Steijns are available at http:// to Rebecca Millar for consideration. museum.wa.gov.au/explore/dirk-hartog/profiles-selected- voc-skippers Timeline A 2007 WA Museum exhibition entitled Voyages of Discovery The following website provides students with an interactive also provides biographies on French, Dutch and British historical timeline ‘Moments in Time’. Have students find explorers at http://museum.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/voyages/ the Dutch Golden Age on the scrolling timeline, and identify index.html what else was going on in the world at that time. Profile of Greatness http://splash.abc.net.au/moments-game/#/home Students can click on ‘Voyages of Discovery’, and then Encourage students to consider the characteristics of an ‘explore more’, to discover info graphics, biographies, explorer. A few examples might be focus, preparedness, impacts and a four minute introductory documentary on perseverance, curiosity, risk taking, resilience and Voyages of Discovery by the BBC. independence. Once the class has developed the word list, ask students to consider which characteristics apply to http://splash.abc.net.au/moments-game/#/development/ them? What do they consider is most important? Which voyages-of-discovery characteristic would they like to develop? Students could be Students could also create their own timeline with asked to share an experience when they displayed one of timetoast http://www.timetoast.com/categories/10 these characteristics. This teaching resource from the WA Museum provides Descriptions questions and discussion points on courage http:// museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/Courage.pdf It was important for explorers to include precise detailed descriptions of the land they found. Students could write a description of what they see in a photo of Cape Inscription on Dirk Hartog Island. Descriptions should include identifying features to distinguish this land from another island. ‘THE LAND OF EENDRACHT LOOKED TO BE RED, CLAYISH LAND, AND, AccORDING TO SOME PEOPLe’S DESCRIPTION, COULD BE FOUND TO BE RICH IN GOLD…’ JACOB DEDEL, COUNCILLOR OF THE INDIES, ON BOARD THE AMSTERDAM, 1619. Image: Australian stamp of Abel Janszoon Tasman. | 7 Image: Banquet at the Crossbowmen’s Guild, Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1648. ©Rijksmuseum SK-C-2 | 8 VOC AND HEEREN XVII ACTIVITIES “Hear-en” Gentlemen’s Seventeen Wondering how to pronounce the Dutch names? This link Students should imagine they have a half hour interview provides audio clips of Dutch sailors and ships. Those most with one of the VOC directors. What would a reporter want relevant to the Zest Festival are at the bottom of the page. to ask? Have students write both the questions and the Assign students each one word to memorise, and then to imaginary Director’s answer. These interviews could then teach their classmates. be recorded in pairs. http://www.heardutchhere.net/dunaval.html As a follow up activity, have students consider how would a reporter’s questions differ from a historian’s or museum 1602 to 1799 curator’s questions? The VOC was active for almost 200 years. What other Board meeting company can compare? In fact the world has over 5,500 companies that are more than 200 years old. The world’s Host an imaginary board meeting of the Gentlemen’s oldest still operating company is Kongo Gumi, a Japanese Seventeen. Have students play the roles of Chairperson, construction firm founded in 578. One company possibly directors from different chambers, investors and captains familiar in the student’s pantry at home is Twinnings- in attending the meeting. What agenda items might be operation at the same location since 1706. discussed at such a meeting? Ask students to think of the oldest company they can name? What do these companies have in common? What End of the VOC characteristics does a successful company have? Possible A timeline of the VOC is available at http://museum.wa.gov.
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