Grounded
Aunty Cheryl Mundy
Journey through the regenerative intention of how art can listen, becoming an offering to place, and a gesture toward healing; how structures can grow from relationships. Rooted in care, co-creation, and respect, the talk invites audiences to consider restoration where cultural memory, ecological awareness, and creative practice are deeply entwined.
10.30am, Ground
Responding to Forest
Ruth Langford, Stevie McEntee and Kim Neilsen-Creeley
In 2025, The Unconformity offers an invitation to respawn, nurturing the green shoots that arise from a fragile landscape. This conversational panel brings together artists gently considering forests and our relationships with them, steeped in lived experience, deep history, and creative experimentation on the West Coast.
12pm, Connections Centre
Moonland Retreat: Works in Progress
Cameron Hindrum, Chelsea Smith and Susan Wallace
Facilitated by Adam Thompson
A group of writers, each with unique experiences and memories of the West Coast, recently gathered to create new short works at the inaugural Moonland Retreat. This reading will feature works in progress from writer Cameron Hindrum, poet Chelsea Smith, and writer and researcher Susan Wallace.
2pm, Connections Centre
Keynote: Environmentalism in a Changing World
Jim Everett - puralia meenamatta
How can the concept of environmental justice be led by Palawa voices? Respected Palawa elder, activist, and philosopher Jim Everett - puralia meenamatta offers this keynote to reflect on environmental law on a local and global scale. In a time of mass extinction, with no political remedies in view, Jim Everett - puralia meenamatta has been going into forests with the Palawa All-Life Initiative (PAI), asserting law in Country to contest colonial jurisdiction. He will speak about the PAI, outlining a positive way forward past the obstacles and extremes of exploitation through acts of grassroots care and solidarity.
4pm, Connections Centre
