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CARTAS
Cultural Awareness & Reconciliation Through Art & Story
CARTAS (Cultural Awareness & Reconciliation Through Art & Story) is a series of optional & individually tailored teaching workshop sessions developed and presented by Peter “Mu-raay Djeripi” Mulcahy, professional Aboriginal Fine Artist, Storyteller & Indigenous Teacher of 33 years.
Topics which could be covered in your school curriculum may include:
- Cultural & Historical Teaching (with artifacts, weapons & ochre)
- Dreamtime storytelling and role play
- Fine Art display & Teaching
- Art Creation & Meaning
- Understanding Identity, who I am & strength of knowing
- Aboriginal Society roles/totems/the way we taught (5 senses)
- Aboriginal Spirituality, living & being
- Acknowledgement to country (ochre use ceremony with students)
- Contemporizing Ancient Australian knowledge for modern Australians
- Mural Creations for school beautification & learning
- Customised Fine Art Creations for schools individual needs
Throughout 33 years of Teaching by prominent elders, an inclusive education style has been developed. This benefits students from prep to year 12 in a unique form of cultural education, incorporating ancient knowledge, with modern-day applications.
Public, private, independent & Christian colleges, call upon Peter to work with their staff and students, in a whole of class or group teaching activities.
Peter also works with individual & small groups in a mentoring capacity with Indigenous youth. CARTAS can be custom tailored to fit your specific school & college requirements.
His passion, humour & belief in the work Peter provides, directly connects with students’ deeper desire for meaningful knowledge & understanding.
Knowledge brings Understanding, which leads to Empathy, Respect and finally True Knowing
Art Creation & Culture
Aboriginal art is so much more than just painting pictures, this art form connects us all to the land and spirit which we now share
Story telling & Art Exhibit
Storytelling, role play and cultural knowledge allows your students to enjoy unfolding the layered wisdom of the first Australians. Morals/ values/ consequences/ co operation/respect
Cultural Knowledge, History & Aboriginal Society
Information and knowledge on the thinking & actions, engagement with one another & environment, roles & responsibilities Hunting/fighting/living/ceremony Pre & Post 1788
Science Of Discovery – Creation of binders and resin use
All natural ingredients, the teaching & layering of respect for the land & the people that provided us with 100 000 years of scientific discovery
Identity – Understanding who I am
Ancestry, relationships, your place & roles, a broader web of understanding connection, knowing your story, symptoms of lack of ID/ bullying/ racism/ sexism/ belittling. The great strength in knowing who you are & what you stand for.
Australian Aboriginal Spirituality
Defining & broadening the concept of the great Dreaming, True meaning of connection to land, understanding the sacredness of story and knowing and living your personal Dreaming.
Indigenous Mentoring (individual & group)
Culture, identity, art story, spirituality, connection, history What is black, finding our way back
“I fan the embers of my ancient culture, to help inform & bring tao life its relevant wisdom in the contemporary world of modern Australia”
Costings
Based on whole day teaching sessions, if required Peter is able to provide paints/ canvas/ paper & other requests as extras, if school chooses not to provide own. Art classes can use pencil/ pens & provide own paper Sessions (45-50mins) normal class size, numbers can be extended on request.
Sunshine Coast: (Gympie – Caloundra) $660 per day
Brisbane: (South of Caloundra, Redlands, Brisbane to Ipswich) $750 per day
South West: (Gold Coast – Toowoomba) $880 per day
(All other areas welcome including interstate $880 per day plus extra travel time+ petrol/flights)