Theme: Australian History

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ÇANNAKALE.GALLIPOLI. Lest We Forget.

Presented by Jan Wositzky
Year Level Suitability 3 - 12
Avail.: Term 1, Term 2, Term 3, Term 4
Duration 60 minutes plus questions (60 minutes to set up).
Gallipoli from both sides told by a master storyteller with both Turkish and Australian song, poetry, oral history, maps and historical sources to tell Gallipoli from both sides. Five students participate. For studies of WW1/ Gallipoli, years 5 - 12.
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GOLD IN THE HEART

Presented by Jan Wositzky
Year Level Suitability 3 - 12
Avail.: Term 1, Term 2, Term 3, Term 4
Duration 60 minutes plus questions
Brilliant music and story theatre tracking the 1850's gold rush - European, Chinese and Aboriginal - and events leading to Eureka, with folk songs, poetry, documents, maps, flags, newspaper reports - and with 6 students participating in the perform
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Wominjeka: The Thank You Workshop

Presented by Jan Wositzky
Year Level Suitability 3 - 12
Avail.: Term 1, Term 2, Term 3, Term 4
Duration 90 minutes
Wominjeka means 'welcome' in the Aboriginal languages around Melbourne, and in this Australian history workshop students learn to sing a song of respect for Indigenous people, and learn a black-white history of conflict and reconciliation.
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The Go-Between: William Murrungurk Buckley

Presented by Jan Wositzky
Year Level Suitability 3 - 12
Avail.: Term 1, Term 2, Term 3, Term 4
Duration 60 minutes plus questions
Australian history show re Indigenous Australia and European colonisation of Port Phillip, from 1803 - 1837. Tracks life of escaped convict William Buckley who lived with Wathaurong people for 32 years, then became the Melbourne go-between.
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The Forgotten Warrior

Presented by TSP Theatre Inc. t/a The Storey Players
Year Level Suitability 3 - 12
Avail.: Term 3, Term 4
Duration 1 hour
The true story of Peter Craigie, an Indigenous man who rode a horse 1700 kms to enlist in WW1. Created in collaboration with his great niece in QLD, this show features the endangered Pitta Pitta language and is a hybrid of live theatre and cinema.
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