Kirli Saunders Southern Skies Storytelling Festival 2020

Описание: Southern Skies Storytelling Festival was due to happen in May 2020 in Sydney Australia. Due to COVID-19 we present you with this video content as a place-holder. One story per performer per festival day.

Firstly Id like to acknowledge the Dharawal people on whose land I live, work, love, share stories and create. I pay my respect to the traditional owners, to the elders past, present and future.

The aim of the festival is to present multilingual stories and identities of Australia. Let's celebrate our stories, our connections, our community.

This pair of stories are shared by Kirli Saunders.
Kirli Saunders is a proud Gunai Woman and an award-winning international Children’s Author and Poet as well as a teacher, and emerging Artist. She lead Poetry in First Languages, delivered by Red Room Poetry. Her debut picture book The Incredible Freedom Machines was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards and CBCA notables. Her poetry collection, Kindred (Mabagala) was shortlisted for the ABIA 2020 Book Awards and FAB Booktopia Awards. She has 5 forthcoming titles including Daisy Utemorrah Award Winning Bindi (Magabala 2020). Kirli is the winner of the University of Canberra ATSI Poetry prize (2019) and was runner up in the Nakata Brophy Prize 2018. She is an esteemed judge for the Val Vallis Poetry Prize. Kirli is the 2020 NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year.
Languages used English and Gunai.

As a note this is Southern Skies Storytelling Festival's first year and was unfunded. All venues took on the presenting risk and all tellers volunteered their time and skills - all for the love of story :-) The festival is directed and presented by Lillian Rodrigues-Pang. More information can be found at www.southernskies.thestoryline.com.au