How to Hold a Festival in the Cook Islands

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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
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Hannah Donnelly

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imagineNATIVE at 20
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Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

State Library of NSW

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Jonathan Jones

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PICA
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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
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Kirsten Thorpe

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Unravelling the past: Barbed wire and campfire learnings
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Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
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Bruce Pascoe

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UTS
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Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
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Lorena Allum

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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
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Pauline Clague

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Make your moment in Pacific history and hang the cost. On 15 October 1992 Raratongans waited expectantly for their 2000 guests from 23 other Pacific countries to arrive for the 6th Pacific Festival of Arts.

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