Performances
The Centre for Regenerating Futures On-Country Day play reading and discussion of Here in the Long Now by Isla Cowan and there are a lot of stories you can tell about humanity by David Finnigan.
Deakin University’s Centre for Regenerating Futures ‘On-Country Days’ are held 4 times a year, and provide an opportunity for Deakin University researchers to be together in community, engaging in located, embodied, and often arts-based practices as they consider the research imperatives of the centre focused on Anthropocene challenges and decolonising knowledges and research.
The plays have been selected for their focus on notions of deep time, the long now, and the idea of chrono-washing. Locating the play reading in the forest provides a contrasting context and opportunity for dialogue and consideration of Australian Indigenous notions of time, such as ‘everywhen’, that help us to think about the past, present, and future existing at the same time, and implications for climate justice.
This play reading will be held in Sherbrooke Forest on Wurundjeri Country of the people of the Kulin Nation.
Open to academics, HDR students, and allied members of Deakin University’s Centre for Regenerating Futures. The play reading is facilitated by Deakin academics Jo Raphael and Meg Upton.
