Toby Cedar 'Mir Giz Kemerkemer Opged Lam Zenadh Kes (Stories from the Eastern Islands - Torres Strait)' 18 March - 28 May 2023,
Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
As a Torres Strait Islander and now Maitland local, artist Toby Cedar finds deep connection between art, community and culture. This exhibition will present new works celebrating Eastern island culture by way of traditional and contemporary art forms. As well as surveying traditional histories of masks, headdresses, myths and legends, Toby will bring to life these stories with sculpture, carvings, dance and new technologies.
Produced by Newy Digital for Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
The clouds have stories the art of the Torres Strait Islands 😍😍😍
Making a ghost-net dinghy (May 9, 2017, National Museum of Australia)
Artists based at Erub Erwer Meta (Darnley Island Arts Centre) in the Torres Strait on the making and meaning of the 'Loyalty Dinghy' ghost-net sculpture by Ellarose Savage, Jimmy Thaiday, Racy Oui-Pitt, Emma Gela, Florence Gutchen, Nancy Naawi, Nancy Kiwat, Lavinia Ketchell and Miller Anson.
Determination and Identity ( Dec 2, 2009)
SOURCE: State Library of QLD
Every member of the Erub community has a certain role to undertake in the preparation of a communal feast. It is more than just an event that brings the community together as each element of the preparation is an important as finishing the meal.
Tom Mosby and Matt Golinski travelled to Erub for the sports carnival to learn and share in the traditions of hunting, preparing and serving of foods from the island.
Online abuse and racism (Torres Strait Islander Creole language)
Online abuse is when a person uses the internet to send, post or share content that harms someone. Learn what you can do if you experience online abuse.
Find online safety advice and support in multiple languages for First Nations people, including resources about how to be safe online and what to do if things go wrong: https://www.esafety.gov.au/first-nations
Connecting safely online (Torres Strait Islander Creole language) ( May 10, 2023)
SOURCE:
Technology has changed the way we share knowledge and tell stories. We don’t just do this face-to-face or on the phone, so we need to know how to connect with each other safely online.
Find online safety advice and support in multiple languages for First Nations people, including resources about how to be safe online and what to do if things go wrong: https://www.esafety.gov.au/first-nations
Phillip Bowie | Indigenous Veterans’ Ceremony 2023 (May 10, 2023)
SOURCE: RSL
Navy veteran Phillip Bowie was one of the first Torres Strait Islanders to join Bexley in 1965. His grandfather served in the TSLIB, followed by his father and uncle who both supplied water from Bamaga to the troops on Horn Island (Ngurupai). He attended the anniversary event on Thursday Island (Waibene).
Possession Island cuisine | View from the Shore | ABC Australia (May 22, 2020)
Kuarareg / Gudang Yadhaykenu Traditional Owners show us some of the important food sources they gathered from Possession Island, and explain the meaning behind the different names they use to refer to the place.
In collaboration with the National Museum of Australia’s exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s voyage to Australia, this collection focuses on the history and culture of Indigenous communities along Australia’s east coast, from the locations Cook wrote about in his journals from that fateful voyage.
Ken Thaiday Snr. makes a hammerhead totem he can ride | Walking Together | ABC Australia (Mar 21, 2020)
Ken Thaiday Snr. is a Torres Strait Island artist renowned for his dance headdresses.
Inspired by Darnley island culture, these artworks are often larger than life and mobile. Join him as he prepares to ride his latest creation – a 6-meter-long hammerhead shark totem.
This Place: Artist Series follows Six Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists across Australia who share their connections to country and how it inspires their art and identity.
These award-winning artists work hang in galleries around the world, including the National Gallery of Australia. In each episode they take us far from the bright lights of the art world to the places where their artmaking begins.
Triple Beizam Hammerhead Shark Headress (Mar 19, 2015)
SOURCE: Australian Museum
Torres Strait artist Ken Thaiday talks about his artwork, and performs the Beizam (shark) chant from Darnley Island.
Ghost Net Art as Environmental Activism (Nov 27, 2013)
SOURCE: Australian Museum
Watch as artists from Darnley Island tell us why they use ghost net (discarded plastic fishing nets) in their art.
Watch as artists from Darnley Island tell us why they use ghost net (discarded plastic fishing nets) in their art.
Ghost Net Art: Making Dauma and Garom (Nov 27, 2013)
SOURCE: Australian Museum.
Watch as two new ghost net sculptures are built by artists on Darnley Island in the Torres Strait for the Australian Museum. Dauma the crab and Garom the cod are characters from an important local story and song, and the music you hear was performed by the artists themselves.
ADVANCE AWARDS 2020 | Gerib Sik Dance Troupe | Traditional Dances of Mer Island, Torres Strait.
SOURCE: Advance The Global Australian Network
Culture Love 2009: String games, Moa Island
The video recording documents L. Bolsen talking briefly about parts of her life then demonstrating string games to children during Culture Love 2009 at Kubin, Moa/Banks Island, Torres Strait, Far North Queensland.
Culture Love is a State Library of Queensland program delivered through Indigenous Knowledge Centres that provides opportunities for Indigenous children and young people to revive and celebrate culture through the arts.
SOURCE: State Library of Queensland
String Games Demonstration (Saibai Island, Torres Straits)
See more information about Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander String games at the following weblink @ https://core.ac.uk/reader/211496500
SOURCE: AusilVideos
Hunting the Turtle (Torres Straits)
SOURCE: AusilVideos
Boigu Island Zangalmawaza Dance (1980s)
In the old days when the warriors returned back to their village after a successful headhunting raid.
Torres Strait Islander Railway Builders Pt. 2
Blue skies, as the camera pans down, the frame rests on Wickham, Western Australia. A Torres Strait man recalls how he came to work on the railway and stayed. As he describes his experiences we see film of black and white men working on the railway and relaxing in between work, with a song. He tells of how their bodies would turn white from the salt and of his regrets for not returning home. Its too late now, he says.
Torres Strait Islanders made an important contribution to the economic development of Australia during the 1960s mining boom. The history of the Torres Strait Islands features continuous migration but following the Islands annexation by Queensland in 1872 the movement of Islanders was restricted.
The community of Torres Strait Islanders who were employed in the Pilbara in the 1960s as fettlers to build the railway gradually dispersed as the work was completed. They had been employed because Torres Strait Islanders had established a reputation as skilled and hard-working fettlers in other parts of Australia and also because of the lack of local workers. On completion of the railway many returned to the Torres Strait Islands but some, such as Saylor, remained in the Pilbara, maintaining traditions of Torres Strait Islander culture.
SOURCE: Australian Screen
See more at "Breaking A Record - Making History" https://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/online-exhibitions/1968-torres-strait-islander-track-laying-world-record/acknowledgement-c-2
Torres Strait Islander Railway Builders - Leaving Island Homes (Part 1)
The bright tropical colours of the coastline of Darnley Island, Torres Strait. Island men bid their families and community farewell. Voice-over narration tells of the choice to go to Western Australia to provide for their families. Historical footage of railway lines in the desert. The colours are now sepia and hot, quite a contrast to the bright colours of the Torres Strait. Titles come up that say The Pilbara Region, North Western Australia. Large earth moving machinery carves up the land. Titles state, In the 1960s, Western Australias growing mining industry needed thousands of kilometres of railway built to transport ore and minerals from remote mines in the desert to port towns on the coast. Already regarded as amongst the best and hardest working fettlers, hundreds of Torres Strait men left their homes to build these railways. Their work and skill led them to break a world record in tracklaying. It has never been beaten since. When the work was over, many returned to the Islands. A handful chose to stay.
SOURCE: Australian Screen
Self help housing on Moa Island
1989 footage of self-help housing at St Paul's Village on Moa Island in the Torres Strait Region of Far-North Queensland.
Families there were designing and building their own homes with local bush materials.
SOURCE: Paul Haar Architect
