MUTTACAR - SORRY BUSINESS

Muttacar - Sorry Business is a hard hitting theatre piece aimed at reducing the road toll in Indigenous communities. The play tackles key issues such as drink-driving and risk-taking behaviour. All performances and their accompanying workshops are free.

The 2009 tour incorporated NT actors into 22 shows performed to 1622 people in Darwin schools, the Berrimah Jail and remote communities throughout Arnhem Land and the Roper Gulf regions. The group travelled 4464 km in four weeks, including performances at the Barunga Festival, June 2009.

Touring to these remote and regional NT communities in May-June 2010:

Darwin, Palmerston, Berrimah, Batchelor, Wadeye, Peppimenarti, Naiyu, Adelaide River, Daly River, Timber Creek, Yarralin, Katherine, Kalano, Pine Creek, Jabiru, Oenpelli, Maningrida.

I DON'T WANNA PLAY HOUSE - Tammy Anderson

Tammy Anderson's work is based on her experiences during her first 15 years of 'living in 16 houses, three caravans and going to 12 schools' and raises all the now familiar issues of abuse, domestic violence, love, survival, dysfunctional families and hope.

The play is a Yirra Yarkin Theatre production, in partnership with Country Arts WA; with the NT tour presented by Artback NT and funded by Playing Australia, the Australian Government's national touring program for the performing arts.

19 July ; Nhulunbuy

20 July ; Nhulunbuy Workshop

22 July ; Darwin Entertainment Centre

24 July ; Katherine

27 July ; Tennant Creek

Image Courtesy Country Arts WA

“The Australian Government is proud to be associated with the Tammy Anderson tour through the national performing arts program, Playing Australia, which gives Australians across the country the opportunity to see some of our best performing arts.”

Photo of Lisa Hilli courtesy of Kultour.

Touring 2010

23 - 27 September, Healthy Lifestyles Festival, Gali'winku

28 September - 1 October, Darwin Community Arts

JUST LIKE HOME - Lisa Hilli

Just Like Home is an exhibition, a meal, a film and a biography, which explores artist Lisa Hilli's New Guinean and Australian heritage.

Just Like Home celebrates the continuation of Tolais cooking traditions, unique to the people of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, with an Aussie twist. With one simple meal Lisa Hilli highlights issues of assimilation and cultural adaption.

Lisa's video documentary, Just Like Home, is a portrayal of her mother, Cathy, preparing I gir (e gee-rrra), literally meaning 'to steam with hot stones'.  Made in suburban Brisbane, Just Like Home positions this specific Tolais culinary practice in a Western context, and reveals an interesting development; instead of using banana leaves which are integral to the cooking process, Lisa's mother uses tin foil, thus adapting the recipe to suit her new adopted home and the resources at hand.

Sculptures
Watch Hilli’s video documentary under the shade of her life-sized banana tree sculptures constructed entirely of tin foil. Drawing inspiration from her mother these banana trees are shining monuments to the continuation and adaptation of this specific Tolais cooking tradition within Australia, and a celebration of a culture’s capacities to respond to shifting circumstances.

I Gir Cooking Demonstration / Performance
Lisa Hilli and her mother Cathy Hilli guide and demonstrate a celebratory feast melding Australian and Papua New Guinean cultures, where members of the public participate in the preparation, cooking and eating of I gir, a traditional vegetable and chicken dish cooked in banana leaves. While much of the time consuming food preparation will be done in advance of the demonstration participants are encouraged to try scraping coconuts, softening banana leaves and assisting Cathy in other aspects of the process. Then participants sit down and share I gir with Lisa and Cathy.