Dates and Times
23 May 2019
18:00 - 20:30
Location
Address: Palace Electric Cinemas, New Acton Nishi Building, 2 Phillip Law St, Canberra ACT 2601
Organiser
Advancement
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UC Reconciliation Week: Gurrumul Screening
Join with your Canberra community a public screening of 'Gurrumul'. Screening includes Popcorn, choc top, bottle of water and a drink.
100% of the ticket purchase price goes to the Ngunnawal Elder’s Fund, which promotes the social and emotional health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at the University of Canberra through the provision of financial assistance in the event of unexpected financial hardship and/or for one-off expenses relating to cultural requirements. The Fund aims to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students complete their studies and reach their full potential. You can donate directly to the Ngunnawal Elders Fund here.
Additional Information
Celebrated by audiences at home and abroad, Indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the most important and acclaimed voices to ever come out of Australia. Blind from birth, he found purpose and meaning through songs and music inspired by his community and country on Elcho Island in far North East Arnhem Land. Living a traditional Yolngu life, his breakthrough album ‘Gurrumul’ brought him to a crossroads as audiences and artists around the world began to embrace his music.
GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.
UC acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather.