This project, initiated via the Aboriginal History Archive, used extensive community engagement to re-gather the Aboriginal & non-Aboriginal students, parents, staff and community artists & musicians of Preston East Tech/Northland Secondary College who had built the culture of this remarkable school & successfully fought the Victorian government's 1992 decision to close it. We embraced Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing & developed multiple forms of storytelling, enabling us to revisit this epic story of struggle and reinstate & highlight the unique culture of the school. We created a Melbourne Museum exhibition, a YIRRAMBOI Festival stage-show, a vinyl record, a Digital Stories Series, lasting collaborations & follow-on research.
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Fight for survival: Cultural resistance - Reasonable Rational Responsible - The story of Northland Secondary College
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Exhibition
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Public Record Office Victoria
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An Exhibition and Gathering about Aboriginal Identity, resilience and celebration, commemorating the grassroots fight against the decision to shut down the Northland Secondary College
Type
Exhibition
Publisher
Northlands Campaign Community History Project
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