UPCOMING HEADLAND EVENTS 2024

Saturday 13 April from 3pm
Twyford Hall, Merimbula
BLACK DUCK: A YEAR AT YUMBURRA - Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood In Conversation with Clarence Slockee

A personal reflection on life, Country and the consequences of Dark Emu through six seasons on Bruce Pascoe's farm.

'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.'

From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history.

When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce found himself at the centre of a national debate that often focussed on the wrong part of the story. But through all the noise came Black Duck Foods, a blueprint for traditional food growing and land management processes based on very old practices.

Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood invite us to imagine a different future for Australia, one where we can honour our relationship with nature and improve agriculture and forestry. Where we can develop a uniquely Australian cuisine that will reduce carbon emissions, preserve scarce water resources and rebuild our soil.

Bruce and Lyn show us that you don't just work Country, you look, listen and care. It's not Black Duck magic, it's the result of simply treating Australia like herself. From the aftermath of devastating bushfires and the impact of an elder's death to rebuilding a marriage and counting the personal cost of starting a movement, Black Duck is a remarkable glimpse

into a year of finding strength in Country at Yumburra. 'Bruce invites us onto the land that changed the man behind the book that changed the nation.' Narelda Jacobs 'Bruce's love of Country is resoundingly evident. I get the sense that this book and his work with the Black Duck team has been profoundly cleansing for a man who has faced numerous challenges in his life after Dark Emu.

His connection to place, land and Country is at the core of his remarkable resilience. Bruce gets right into the belly of the land and storytelling, a medicine this country needs.' Stephen Page

'This brilliant book gives a real insight into the minds and lives of Bruce and Lyn and the impact Dark Emu had on both of them.' Tony Armstrong

Clarence Slockee is a Bundjalung Aboriginal man with a 30-year career in service to the public and the Indigenous community. Clarence has over 20 years’ experience in cultural and environmental education, developing and delivering high quality education programs, community arts & culture projects, interpretive native garden spaces and conferences.

Presented in partnership with Candelo Books and supported by the Regional Arts Fund

Saturday 20 April from 3pm
Tathra Hotel - FREE (but please register below)
THE SILVER RIVER A memoir of family — lost, made and found, by Jim Moginie

A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil.

For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most iconic rock bands, Midnight Oil. Through the ups and downs of writing and releasing generation-defining songs, touring relentlessly, and enduring the intense scrutiny drawn by the band's uncompromising lyrics and environmental activism, the members of Midnight Oil developed a feeling of 'five against the world', the firm friends forming a de facto family.

For Jim Moginie, the band was a calling and a refuge, and a distraction from a growing feeling that something was missing from his life. Raised by a loving family, he'd learned as a child that his biological mother had given him up for adoption. Gradually, alongside the Oils' unfolding saga of stardom and controversy, Jim began a quest to find his birth family, these twin paths leading him from suburban Sydney through the nascent Australian punk scene and the uncharted musical territory of the Western deserts to the stadiums of Europe and America, the meandering roads and verdant hills of rural Ireland, countless musical collaborations, and poignant reunions with band members and long-lost relatives.

Threaded with vivid recollections of childhood and travel, behind-the-scenes stories of band life, and fascinating insights into the creative processes that produced some of this country's most beloved songs, The Silver River is at once a lyrical coming-of-age story, a heart-warming family chronicle, and a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Australian music.

Joshua Becker is the rural reporter at ABC South East NSW. Before joining ABC Rural, Joshua worked producing programs for ABC Local Radio in Wodonga, Wagga Wagga, Orange and Sydney.

He grew up in Tumut in the Riverina, so it wasn't far down the road to reach Bega and start reporting on the wide range of industries in the region, from commercial fishing along the coast, the rich dairying region around Bega and the historic grazing country on the Monaro. An occasional musician and sports tragic there is plenty to keep Joshua busy in the south east.

You can hear Joshua Monday to Friday on the ABC South East at 6:38am with all the latest rural news from the southeast and Gippsland regions.

Sun 4 August 2024
3pm Windsong Pavilion, Four Winds
The Offering: Omar Musa & Mariel Roberts

Australian-Malyasian multi-talent Omar Musa is an award-winning author, poet, rapper and visual artist from Queanbeyan, NSW who performs alongside Mariel Roberts; an internationally renowned American cellist, composer and improvisor.

The Offering combines storytelling, poetry, hip hop, cello and original music using field recordings taken from forests and oceans in Malaysian Borneo. The Offering brings together two unique voices for a deeply personal voyage into sound and story.

Exploring themes of seafaring, environmental destruction, belonging, borderlessness and Omar’s family history in South-East Asia, the work is an immersive music, poetry and theatre performance composed by Omar Musa and Mariel Roberts.

“Rapper, poet, author and visual artist, Musa is arguably one of most exciting creators in Australia right now.”
The New York Times Style Magazine: Australia