Talking Stick Making Workshop

The Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl is pleased to present visual artist Barb Wood for a workshop on making talking sticks. Come out and try your hand at some arts and crafts while learning to tell stories in this creative way.

Barb Wood lives in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Her paintings and craft work bring together a diverse mix of natural materials and textiles. Her artistic expression is nurtured by a strong sense of connection to the land that living in Labrador inspires. Barbara has received a number of honors for her work including the Canada 125 Award, the Outstanding Achievement Award for Excellence in Craft (2005) from the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Labrador (2002) from the Newfoundland and Labrador Organization of Women.

Pre-registration is required. Register with Christine Hennebury <christine@mombie.com>

Tuesday Nov. 3
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
$20 (includes materials)

Admiralty House Museum, Mount Pearl.
Admiralty House
23 Old Placentia Road

ICH Update for October 2009

In this month's ICH Update, we look at a project to place materials from the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive which relate to mummering traditions online, an article on the wren, the king of the birds, a note from Harbour Breton on an Iron Foot, an update on what's new with the Digital Archives Initiative, and a preview of the Place, Narrative and New Media Symposium coming up November 5th.

Download the pdf from:
http://tinyurl.com/ylsmxdj

MMaP lecture series to discuss Aboriginal Australian women

The latest installment of the Research Centre for Music, Media and Place’s lecture series will host a discussion surrounding the history and contemporary realities of indigenous Australian women.

Dr. Elizabeth MacKinlay will present on “Big Women from Borroloola: Approaching, applying and decolonising ethnomusicology in the context of Indigenous Australia” on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the MMaP Gallery, located on the second floor of the Arts and Culture Centre.

Dr. MacKinlay is senior lecturer in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, where she teaches indigenous studies, women’s studies and ethnomusicology at the University of Queensland. She will reflect on her time spent with women from the Aboriginal community at Borroloola in the South West of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory of Australia in 2008-09.

Currently undertaking research and publishing widely on a diverse range of topics such as Aboriginal women’s music, performance pedagogy, critical race theory and discourse, autoethnographic approaches and music and mothering, Dr.
MacKinlay is also the editor of the Music Education Research and Innovation (MERI) and co-editor of the Australian Journal of Music Education (AJIE).

The Canada Research Chair in Ethnomusicology, Dr. Beverley Diamond, in conjunction with the School of Music and the Department of Folklore, inaugurated this interdisciplinary lecture series in 2002-03.

Distinguished scholars from the academic community are featured in a series of presentations regarding historical and contemporary musical practices. Members of the general public, as well as the university community, are cordially invited.

For more information, please contact Kristin Harris Walsh, kharriswalsh@mun.ca

Place, Narrative & New Media Symposium

On Thursday, November 5th, 2009, the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Intangible Cultural Heritage program, as part of the annual St. John’s Storytelling Festival, is organizing a half-day symposium on how new technologies are being incorporated into storytelling. Several invited speakers will detail how they are using new media or technology to tell the stories of real places.

Chris Brookes will speak about the [Here]Say, a story map of Water street that allows people to listen to stories, via cell phone, about the location they are standing in at that moment. Marlene Brooks brings us news on 3D Virtual World Storytelling, and will explain how Conne River and Cupids 400 Projects are using Second Life to preserve cultural stories of local communities. New York is only a click away: Jedediah Baker will explain how through his discussion of City Lore's City of Memories. Parks Canada is Implementing GPS based interpretation at a number of their sites and Cupids 400 will be launching an iTouch based interpretation of the 1610 archaeological site.

After brief presentations by all invited speakers, an open panel discussion of the potential of such technology, as well as some of the possible problems, will ensue. What are we able to accomplish and what would we like to be able to accomplish with these resources? How can technology help link place and story? Come see, share, and participate!

See the full symposium site at:
http://www.mun.ca/ich/resources/conferences/conf2009.php

Place, Narrative and New Media Symposium
Celestial Gallery, Johnson GEO Centre
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 1pm-4pm

Free admission to pre-registered participants.
RSVP to Jed Baker at: 737-3582, or by e-mail: jedediah.edwin.baker@mun.ca