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Giving Voice: Lior, Lou Bennett & Nigel Westlake

Giving Voice: Lior, Lou Bennett & Nigel Westlake Ngapa William Cooper came out of a rich collaboration between composer Nigel Westlake, singer-songwriter Lior, and performer and academic Dr Lou Bennett, exploring the story of Yorta Yorta activist William Cooper. In 1938 William Cooper led the Australian Aborigines’ League through the streets of Melbourne in the only…

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we jive like this | and the sea was red..

Performance poet Siphiwe Ngwenya filmed on a Soweto street for We Jive Like This, a documentary made in the 90’s in the interegnum between Apartheid and democracy. An extraordinary time which saw an explosion of creativity in the black townships: with every back yard, empty shop, after-hours schoolroom, abandoned warehouse or dusty street corner occupied by culture…