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Sky Country, and Straight from the Strait
Manage episode 434703806 series 2902645
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always found guidance, connection and answers in the stars.
In honour Science Week -- which this week ask us to look to the night sky -- Dr Krystal De Napoli and Peter Swanton discuss some of the astrophysical events witnessed by our ancestors.
Then, Aunty Ruth Ghee is helping translate an incredible feat of endurance into a musical for Opera Queensland.
It’s called Straight from the Strait and she’ll explain how she’s paying homage to a group of remarkable Torres Strait Islanders working on the Mount Newman railway construction project in the 1960s.
Plus, Christine Anu shares some more of her maternal grandfather’s language – Kala Kawa Ya.
255 episódios
Manage episode 434703806 series 2902645
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always found guidance, connection and answers in the stars.
In honour Science Week -- which this week ask us to look to the night sky -- Dr Krystal De Napoli and Peter Swanton discuss some of the astrophysical events witnessed by our ancestors.
Then, Aunty Ruth Ghee is helping translate an incredible feat of endurance into a musical for Opera Queensland.
It’s called Straight from the Strait and she’ll explain how she’s paying homage to a group of remarkable Torres Strait Islanders working on the Mount Newman railway construction project in the 1960s.
Plus, Christine Anu shares some more of her maternal grandfather’s language – Kala Kawa Ya.
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