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1 form y separately published work icon Jemima to Jeremy ( dir. Tamara Whyte ) Australia : Butchers Paper Workshop , 2016 15416321 2016 single work film/TV

'A journey of identity. From female to male and into Aboriginal culture. Jemima Jane Anderson was born in Fremantle W.A.'  (Production summary)
1 Getting to Know the Story of the Boathouse Dances : Football, Freedom and Rock 'n' Roll Tamara Whyte , Chris Matthews , Michael Balfour , Lyndon Murphy , Linda Hassall , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Creative Communities : Regional Inclusion & the Arts 2015; (p. 81-97) 'In 2011, the Indigenous Research Network (IRN) at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia brought together a team of playwrights and researchers to tell the story of the Boathouse dances as its firs community-driven research project. The Boathouse dances were held in the late 1950s and early 1960s and were a significant meeting place for Aboriginal people of Brisbane and the greater South East Queensland region. The dances were organized by an Aboriginal man, Uncle Charlie King, to fund the first Aboriginal football team in Brisbane and an Aboriginal women's virago team. The Boathouse dances were a time of celebration, reconnecting, establishing new relationships and falling in love.Te dances were also a focal point of significant social change in the lives of many Aboriginal people and were driven by Aboriginal people who were experiencing a new agency. To date, this story is untold; it is a part of Australia's hidden histories.' (83)
1 Red Sanctuary Tamara Whyte , 2009 single work drama

'"Red Sanctuary" is a new interdisciplinary work which explores and represents the socio-political tensions in Australia through the exploration of identity in relation to country and environment. Set in Asia, in a foreign "stranger in a strange land" to explore socio-political tensions of Indigenous Australia.

Documented through the eyes of a young Aboriginal woman, Dawn, who leaves Australia for Asia, the play journeys away from the psychological, physical and cultural dominance of colonial-Australia, releases self-determination and strengthens the courage to reform primal bonds.

"Red Sanctuary" journals the journey, each scene offering reflections of the dimensions of unpredictability within two venerable societies. It is an impressionistic interpretation of a modern political and spiritual rite of passage.' Source: www.australianstage.com.au/ (Sighted 02/11/2009).

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