Blacklight Speakers and Performers

contact
kurityityin@yahoo.com
P.O. Box 3001 South Brisbane Business Centre
Queensland 4101
Australia

Performers and speakers

Baganan Kurityityin Theresa Creed
-Singer, performance poet, traditional and contemporary Aboriginal dancer
-lecturer and workshop leader on Aboriginal culture. kalkadoon.org
Baganan is a member of the Kalkadoon and Pitta Pitta tribes of North West Queensland. As a songwriter and poet she tells the story of her peoples heritage and their transition from their tribal culture and country into the mission system described by Theresa as “concentration camps”. She also tells of her own journey from the Woorabinda mission, where she was born, to the highs and lows of living as an Aboriginal person in the twenty first century.

Theresa takes audiiences deep into the emotion of her stories, providing transparency into the many dimensions of human experience. She offers a powerful insight into what Aboriginality is, expressed in a way that is both entertaining and accessible.
see also workshops and lectures

Bart Willoughby
Singer/songwriter and music workshop facilitator
Formerly of "No Fixed Address", "Mixed Relations", "Yothu Yindi", "Coloured Stone" and Shane Howard's "Goanna"
Bart is the most powerful influence in contemporary Aboriginal music outside of country music, Just as Jamaican reggae, Afro-American blues and jazz and inner London Punk movements developed from the music of the grass roots into a world music movement, Bart Willoughby has laid the musical foundation for the development of a distinctively Australian Aboriginal music that will, one day, be every bit as significant globally as the new waves of music last century.

John Tracey
- Lecturer and workshop facilitator - Reconciliation with Aboriginal Australia, Art and politics, injustice and social change, radical political analysis and critique. John's presentations explore notions of Aboriginal sovereignty, land rights and reconciliation as well as the history of the frontier wars, colonisation, the Aboriginal “protection” laws and modern indigenous policies.
see also workshops and lectures

Aunty April Munday
- Stand-up comic (dont let her know we called her that) and a mistress of ceremony.
extract from Rolling stone Magazine, Aug 2005 "As the relationship between Peter Garret and Aunty April developed, whatever it was, it caused great friction with the other members of Midnight Oil. Aunty Aprils constant presence in the recording studio and her obvious influence on Garrett, especially her insistence that one day he could be a brilliant politician was often the cause of arguments amongst the band. Those close to the band believe Aunty April was the real reason for Midnight Oil breaking up."

Professor Reginald Bygges-Bottomley
- Professor Bygges Bottomley is a character who delivers humour, satire and social critique to entertain. Based in Brisbane, Australia, he is available for acedemic conferences, dinner speeches and other functions. Professor Bygges Bottomly has extensive qualifications and experience in absolutely everything and can deliver groundbreaking insights into the subject matter of your public event, no matter what it is.