WALK WITH US
henrietta baird & rowan savage
WALK WITH US ON BEAUTIFUL GADIGAL COUNTRY
…today a meeting place for people from many Aboriginal nations. Journeying from paperbark to swamp land, from PACT Centre for Emerging Artists to South Eveleigh's Cultural Landscape Garden, you will meet and walk with local Elders and knowledge holders on a journey through deep time and culture, through stories unfolding under the fig trees, to the landscape of today.
A soundwalk by Henrietta Baird (Kuku Yalanji) and Rowan Savage (Kombumerri) guided by Aunty Jacqui Jarrett (Dharawal, Gumbaynggirr), Aunty Bronwyn Penrith (Yuin, Wiradjuri), and Clarence Slockee (Cudgenburra, Bundjalung).
HENRIETTA BAIRD
Choreographer and performer Henrietta Baird is a Kuku Yalanji woman from FNQ, graduated from NAISDA in 2005.
Henrietta performed in many productions across Australia, including Vicki Van Hout’s “Stolen”, which toured NSW. Her script “The Weekend” was one of 6 finalists selected for the Yellamundie Festival.
Henrietta performed in “Divercity” which toured Dance Massive (2017), Yirrimboi Festival (2017), Spirit Festival (2018) and showcased at APAM (2018).
ROWAN SAVAGE
Salllvage (Rowan Savage) is a proud Kombumerri man, living on Wangal Land. He is an experimental producer and DJ working at the intersection of queer club culture and connection with Country.
His work mutates on-Country field recordings into electronica, and inhabits and bridges the tensions between abstraction and emotion, the wild bush and the dancefloor, the personal and the social, authenticity and reconstruction.