Indigenous Australian TEDx talks
This is a list of all the Indigenous peeps I could find who have TEDx videos online. If I have missed anyone please let me know and I will update it asap.
ONExSAMENESS: Dr Anita Heiss at TEDxBrisbane
“Anita is a contemporary Australian author. She is a Wiradjuri woman. She is an Indigenous Literacy Day Ambassador and an Adjunct Professor with Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS amongst many other things.”
Cultural education: Mundanara Bayles at TEDxSouthBankWomen
“Mundanara highlights the opportunities to learn from Australian indigenous culture and some of the differences between our cultures. She is a strong advocate on promoting everyone to better understand Australian Indigenous culture, through The Black Card course.”
TEDxBrisbane Chris Sarra — All you need is…. TO DREAM
IndigenousX: Luke Pearson at TEDxCanberra
“Luke Pearson’s journey from country NSW to teaching in Sydney, and then to the creation of @IndigenousX on Twitter, is part of a bigger journey to share Australia’s diverse, courageous, and inspiring Aboriginal heritage.”
Waverley Stanley — Indigenous Education Scholarship Program TEDx StHilda’sSchool
“Waverley Stanley is the founding Director of Yalari. Yalari is a not-for-profit organisation that offers quality, secondary education scholarships at Australia’s leading boarding schools for Indigenous children from remote, rural and regional communities.”
TEDxYouth@Brissie -Belinda Huntress Australian Aboriginal Indigenous Mentoring
Indigenous leadership and 10 weeks in Borneo: Jason Tambling at TEDxDarwin
“Jason Tambling is an Aboriginal man, born in Darwin who grew up in Jabiru. Jason is 22 years old and has just completed a 9 month Indigenous Youth Leadership Program.
In this talk, Jason shares his experiences as a volunteer in Borneo for 10 weeks helping people in remote villages.”
Experimental beds | Judy Watson | TEDxCharlottesville
“Judy Watson is an Indigenous artist whose matrilineal family is from country in north-west Queensland. She co-represented Australia in the 1997 Venice Biennale, was awarded the Moët & Chandon Fellowship in 1995, the National Gallery of Victoria’s Clemenger Award in 2006 and, in the same year, the Works on Paper Award at the 23rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award. In 2011 her exhibition waterline was exhibited at the Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC. Her work is held in major Australian and international collections including: National Gallery of Australia; all Australian State Art Galleries; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; St Louis Art Museum USA; The British Museum, London; Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK; Library of Congress, Washington, USA; Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, USA; as well as important private collections. She has exhibited widely over the past twenty-five years.”
Keep our languages alive: Kylie Farmer at TEDxManly
“WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this video may contain images and voices of deceased persons.
Kylie Farmer [Kaarljilba Kaardn] is an Aboriginal Australian actress, TV presenter, writer and director from the Nyungar/Bibbulmun nation. ‘Kylie’ means ‘a small boomerang’. Kylie has performed in numerous stage production roles, both nationally and internationally, starring in The White Divers of Broome, The Sapphires, One Day in ‘67, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aliwa and King Hit. Her television and screen credits include Redfern Now 2, The Gods of Wheat Street, Ace of Spades, Stone Bros and Sa Black Thing.
Kylie is the host of NITV’s popular children’s television show, Waabiny Time, and is a past presenter of the Marngrook Footy Show. She has worked as a director and associate artist with companies such as Yirra Yaakin, Belvoir, Ilbijerri and Version 1.0. She has extensive theatre experience and recently translated six Shakespearean sonnets into Noongar language for a London performance at Shakespeare’s Globe.”
Twice Upon a Time… : Mikaela Griffiths w/ Ruth Mirams at TEDxCanberra
“Mikaela Griffiths and Ruth Mirams combine art, spoken narrative, and new technology to keep the oral histories and languages of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians alive into the future.”
Two worlds | Ingrid Cumming | TEDxPerth
“Ingrid Cumming is a custodian and traditional owner of Whadjuk Nyungar country. Ingrid has worked in many areas including national and local Indigenous Australian media (including film, radio and print), marketing and communications, state health, the arts, anthropological research, higher education and is now CEO and Principal Consultant of Kart Koort Wiern.
She has been a delegate to the UN International Conference for Women Leaders in 2013, an advisor in the PhD research group on ‘Urban Aboriginal Women’s Beliefs and Attitudes to Sexual Violence’ and placed third at the National Indigenous Comedy Competition — Deadly Funnies.
Ingrid holds a Bachelor of Arts in Australian Indigenous Studies from Murdoch University and is a graduate of the Management and Academic Leadership Programs and the MURRA Aboriginal Business Program at Melbourne Business School.”
TEDxSydney — Mary Victor O’Reeri — Indigenous Australian Wisdom. A Story of Life, Discovery & Death
“Mary Victor O’Reeri lives and works in the remote north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia. As a traditional owner, educator, UN delegate and communicator, Mary works with her people to transform relationships with governments, NGOs, businesses and individuals. In her talk to the audience at TEDxSydney, she surprises and touches us with an appropriately-meandering story of life, discovery & death.”
40,000 years of TEDx talks | Bernard Lee Singleton | TEDxJCUCairns
“Bernard Lee Singleton is an artist and performer. He was born in Cairns and raised in the small Aboriginal community of Coen, Cape York. Bernard’s mother is a Djabuguy woman born in Mona Mona mission and his father is an Umpila (east coast Cape York)/Yirrkandji man from Yarrabah mission. Bernard believes that continuing to develop and explore traditional dance and mediums such as bark paintings, artefacts and crafting is an important cultural responsibility to maintain and pass on traditional techniques and knowledge.”
The future of Indigenous storytelling | Digi Youth Arts | TEDxSouthBank
“Opening TEDxSouthBank 2015, Digi Youth Arts performed this moving acknowledgement of country to showcase how very bright the future of Australian Indigenous storytelling is. Special thanks to Mau Power for allowing part of the performance to feature his song ‘Freedom’.
Digi Youth Arts is a creative voice for Indigenous youth, they empower Indigenous young people through creative exploration and story-telling. Through innovative arts practices Digi Youth Arts advances culture by empowering the lives of Indigenous youth to tell their stories. Digi Youth Arts promotes reconciliation and cultural competency by fostering compassionate relationships between non-indigenous and indigenous people. @DigiYouthArts”
ONExGUITAR: Chris Tamwoy at TEDxBrisbane 2013
“Christopher is a 17 year old [written in 2013] Torres Strait Islander living in Woodridge, south of Brisbane. A musician, high school student and football referee; Chris is an amazing kid. He has phenomenal talent and after this video, we’re quite sure you’ll agree.)
Far Away From Home/Gungalaira: Black Arm Band at TEDxSydney 2014
“Featuring Emma Donovan
Sung in English and Bundjalung
Musical arrangement Eugene Ball
Composed by Graham Tardif with lyrics by Rolf de Heer with Archie Roach. Words and music from the award-winning film The Tracker directed by Rolf de Heer.
Black Arm Band is a flexible musical theatre ensemble that performs on stages and in community contexts across the globe, as well as extensively across metropolitan, regional and remote Australia. In an international context, the group interrogates and promotes contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture through the creation of large-scale music theatre productions, music, installations and multimedia projects. In seven years, the company has provided professional pathways and opportunities for many artists and performed to over one million people. Black Arm Band’s current performance, titled dirtsong, inspired by the words of award-winning author Alexis Wright, mixes traditional approaches and contemporary songs, existing repertoire and newly commissioned music to conjure a sense of ‘country’ as not only a geographical place, but as encounters, memories, obligations and nature.”
Dirtsong: Black Arm Band at TEDxSydney 2014
“Featuring Deline Briscoe
Sung in Yorta Yorta
Written Lou Bennett, Alexis Wright
Musical arrangement Iain Grandage
“From the Echuca, Barmah region, the heartland of Yorta Yorta country, it is a song of the connection of people, song and country. ‘Baiyan Woka’ is Yorta Yorta for singing for country/land. This song comes from the depths of my knowing and understanding that we all have connection, we just have to learn ‘Gulpa Ngarwal’ (deep listening).” — Lou Bennett”
Performance: Stiff Gins with Sydney Childrens Choir at TEDxSydney 2012
“The Stiff Gins, Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs, are one of Australia ‘s best known and most loved Indigenous music acts. These two women combine stunning harmonies and a wicked humour to transport you to a world of joy, spirit and song. Here they perform at TEDxSydney in 2012 with The Sydney Children’s Choir.
Under the direction of Lyn Williams OAM, the Sydney Children’s Choir has built a worldwide reputation for choral excellence, inspiring audiences with a distinctive Australian choral sound. The choir has commissioned more than 100 works from leading Australian composers and performs a significant number of Australian compositions each year.”
