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Hello from Cairns in tropical Australia. Welcome to my bit of Brindle Style - Artists Forum and Indymedia Project
When your own village has great people. Its a more empowered field of potential.
"I make my promise Uncle Sam, to bind the new world's top and bottom with light. The telling of our stories will bring history to the world we build... we must fix the stories with firmness and solder the knots with purpose so that they become part of the narratives - the foundations walls and roof all peoples tell about each other." Witi Ihimaera The Whale Rider
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I work in Australia but my people are from Aotearoa (N.Z) From a town called Gisborne with a rich cultural heritage. The First City of the Sun. Local woman Dame Kiri Te Kanawa opened the global-television broadcast of the Millenium celebrations- it's that sort of place.
I'm a Celtic, German, Maori - imagine putting all those Great grandparents in one room, all those ancestors in one field of consciousness. LOL That Green Theme Ribbon In the Sky
Australia may have the 'cringe' -but when you're from a place like Gisborne - with world leading artists within. You hear "The High Cost of Low Expectations" and go - Doesn' that put it in a nutshell! We're also famous for slangin up the Queens English Still every problem has the answer within it. The Low Cost of High Expectations - and high standards
You CAN Do It Tools training and commentary for arts and cultural practise Find An Earn in Arts
I started ploring visual arts when culture was passed down through aprenticeship by master craftsmen & women. The whole process has gone psycho in the change over to computerised information storage and knowledge transferral.
We reckon - how many people can you fit in a website? - The whole family!
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"I can't be who I am, and I'm not going to be who you tell me to be. So I'll just be nothing. I'll be something else. I'll erase the pain and I'll just do what I have to, to get through but I won't become you" - 