Bangarra Teaching Aboriginal Perspectives

In 2014, Bangarra Dance Developed in collaboration with the NSW Department Theatre celebrated its of Education in 2014, the Opera House launched an 25th anniversary and its annual forum, Teaching Aboriginal Perspectives, Songlines, the first 10th year in residence at designed to provide teachers with guidance on cultural Aboriginal and Torres the Opera House with a protocols and support the teaching of Aboriginal Strait Islander work free performance on the perspectives across all subjects. More than 90 teachers commissioned exclusively Opera House Forecourt have participated in the program so far. for the Opera House sails, as part of was a feature of Vivid LIVE Sydney. The Opera and Vivid Sydney 2016. House also presented a A detailed case study is photographic exhibition provided on page 30. of Bangarra’s work on the Redfern Talks Back Western Broadwalk. In 2014, the Opera House partnered with the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence, the Redfern Area Command Digital Tour and Tribal Warrior Association to develop Redfern Talks Back, an engagement The interactive digital creative learning program for young people at risk. 2014–16 RAP tour Guwanyi Walama: To Tell and Participants created a forum theatre show, Return was launched in 2014 and which is a format designed to generate explores the history of Bennelong Point debate and audience participation. It and the Gadigal lands of Sydney Cove explored the issue of crime prevention, before 1788. A detailed case study is and culminated in a performance to 160 HIGHLIGHTS provided on page 26. people at the Opera House.

Highlights of the Sydney Opera House’s 2014–16 RAP illustrate the reach and impact of the Opera House’s programs, and its deepening Staff Immersion Cultural Awareness relationships and connection with community. An Opera House staff member was appointed Head of Ceremonies at the 2016 Each year, Opera House Festival, an annual multi-arts and multi-venue staff participate in event within Bluesfest on Bundjalung lands cultural engagement in northern NSW. During this two-week, activities during cross-organisational learning and mentorship Homeground National Reconciliation opportunity, she shared her production and Week. To increase technical expertise and cultural knowledge. Homeground, the Opera House’s annual free outdoor festival staff understanding of celebrating First Nations music, dance and cultures from around the Aboriginal and world, was launched in 2014 to an audience of more than 10,000 on Islander cultures, histories the Opera House’s Western Broadwalk. Since then, Homeground has and achievements, played host to many world-class international and domestic artists Tri Nations a cultural awareness including Archie Roach, Paul Kelly, A Tribe Called Red, Dan Sultan, e-learning module was OKA, Excelsior and Tenzin Choegyal. The Opera House, with support launched in 2016. from the Council for the Arts, partnered with Active Careers Day Events (Scotland) and Taranaki Dance Rites Homeground Talks Career Paths Arts Festival (New Zealand) in An annual Careers Day 2014 to present the Tri Nations for Aboriginal and Torres Dance Rites, a national Aboriginal and Torres Strait The inaugural Homeground Talks, a new From 2014 to 2016, the Boomerang Concert, a unique Strait Islander high school Islander dance competition designed to revitalise forum for provocative conversations about Indigenous Work Experience collaboration of Aboriginal and students was launched vanishing cultural practices, was launched in 2015 with contemporary First Nations issues, took and Traineeship Programs Torres Strait Islander, Maori and in 2014 to develop more than 150 participants from 10 communities across place on the 2016 anniversary of Australia’s gave 66 young people the Gaelic/Celtic indigenous artists. relationships with students NSW, Queensland and the Torres Strait Islands. The 1967 Indigenous referendum, with opportunity to learn practical The concert was presented at and encourage them to competition culminated in a breathtaking final round influential artists, activists and academics skills across a range of WOMAD in New Zealand, the consider a career in the watched by a capacity crowd on the Opera House’s debating economic opportunity and Opera House business areas. inaugural Homeground festival, arts and cultural industry. Western Broadwalk during Homeground. A detailed sovereignty for Aboriginal and Torres Strait A detailed case study is and at the Commonwealth Games A detailed case study is case study is provided on page 24. Islander peoples. provided on page 28. Arts Festival in Scotland. provided on page 28.