Date & time
Venue
Kambri Cinema Kambri precinct Acton, ACT 2600
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Event description
Join ANU Law Reform and Social Justice and ANU Film Group in this special screening of You Can Go Now with a special introduction from the film's director, Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt OA.
About the movie
A look at the life and provocative work and writings for First Nations artist, Richard Bell. It reveals the ‘two Richards’: the first a provocateur and enfante terrible of the art world who challenges its whiteness, and the second who spent his childhood living in a tin shed, learnt his politics on the streets of Redfern and is known in his own community as an activist.
Bell’s mischievous energy and button-pushing humour in his work provide a lens through which to consider the last 50 years of First Nations activism in Australia and its links to global protest movements.
Speakers
Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt OA is the Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology Sydney. She has a LLB and B.Juris from UNSW and a LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School.
Larissa has a legal background with a strong track record in the areas of Indigenous law, policy, creative arts, education and research. She has held numerous judicial positions and sat on various community and arts organisation boards. Larissa is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
She is currently Chair of the Cathy Freeman Foundation, a Trustee of the Australian Museum, a member of the UTS Council and a member of the NSW Literacy Board. She is a member of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council.
Larissa is also an award-winning author, filmmaker and host of Speaking Out on ABC Radio. She chaired the national review of Indigenous Higher Education, was the inaugural chair of National Indigenous Television (NITV), has been the Chair of the Bangarra Dance Theatre and was a founding director of Sydney Story Factory (a literacy program in Redfern)
In 2021 she received the Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Medal and in 2020 she received an Order of Australia for distinguished service to Indigenous education and research, to the law, and to the visual and performing arts. In 2009 she was NAIDOC Person of the Year award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year.