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Campaign to Save the Blackfellas Museum
Please fill your details in here and click SEND to submitt them to Gordon Syron and Elain Pelot Syron.
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Supporters of the Blackfellas Dreaming Aboriginal Art Museum:
The Blackfellas
Dreaming Aboriginal Art Museum is one of Australia's most wide ranging
collections of Aborignal art. It houses examples of Australian
indigenous art from acrosAs the continent representing many nations,
styles, traditions and eras. It will be a cultural disaster if this Museum is scattered into private collections around the world. Please contribute your name to this page to show support of keeping the Blackfellas
Dreaming Aboriginal Art Museum together as significant representative collection of Indigenous art in independent Aboriginal ownership.
The following individuals have volunteered their information to sign this page in support of our goal to keep the Blackfellas
Dreaming Aboriginal Art Museum together. Gordon Syron, Elaine Pelot
Syron, Tania Turtle Syron, Jayne Waterford and other are vigorously
investigating options that might realize this aim.
Please scroll down to the form
at the bottom of this page to volunteer your name and show support of
our goal of preserving the Museum.
Linda Burney, Member of Parliament, Canterbury, Patron of Blackfellas Dreaming Museum (non-financial)
Clover Moore M.P., Lord Mayor of Sydney, Patron of Blackfellas Dreaming Museum (non-financial)
Terry Cutcliffe, Director, Addison Road Gallery, Marrickville Patron of Blackfellas Dreaming Museum (non-financial)
Adrian
Newsteadt, Director of Lawson-Menzies Auctioneers,
historical consultant -Aboriginal Art, Patron of Blackfellas
Dreaming Museum (non-financial)
Noel Tovey, Aboriginal Elder, Theatre Director, officially opened the museum in 2004
Fay Nelson, Director of NAISDA, ex-director of the Aboriginal Arts Board, Australia Council
Carole Johnson, Founder NAISDA Dance College and Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia
Michael Franti, International Musician, San Francisco
Keith Munro, Aboriginal Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Marcelle Hoff, Councillor, City of Sydney;
Mungo MacCallum, Freelance Journalistk
Steven Gunther, Director, Gestalt Institute
Dr. Vivien Johnson, Lecturer COFA, University of NSW
Dr. Janie Conway-Herron, Lecturer, School of Arts & Social Sciences, Southern Cross University
Michelle Arens, Art Collections Manager, University of New England
Dudley Leggett, Chairman of Directors, Sustainability Research Institute, Australia
Sheryl Connors, Senior Curator Aboriginal & Torres Strait Art,
Australian Museum, Sydney
Brenda Croft, Senior Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, National Gallery of Australia
Caroline Martin, Manager, Bunjilaka, Museum of Victoria
Susan Syron, Aboriginal Education Liaison Officer, Cheltham High School, Taree,NSw
Karla Dickens, Aboriginal Artist, Lismore
Darren Cooper, Aboriginal Artist, Cooperskooricreations, Redfern
Tim Ives, Aboriginal Artists, Byron Bay
Hilary Bone, Solictor of Black Fella's Dreaming Museum
William Currie Colket, Software Engineer, U.S.A.
Jill Brogan, Guerrilla Management, San Francisco
Aku Kadogo, Director, Black Theatre Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan USA
Avil Alba, Education Director, Sydney Jewish Museum
Affie Adagio, Family Therapist
Roslyn Sugarman, Curator, Sydney Jewish Museum
Mary Scholl, U.S. Consulate, Sydney
Jacqui Houston, Editor, Indigenous Law Bulletin Indigenous Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of NSW.
Jason Glanville, Programs & Strategy Director, Reconciliation Australia
Gary Highland, Director, ANTAR - Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
Chris Graham, Editor, National Indigenous Times
Debra Cole, Bay FM99.9
Tess Hilleard, Freelance Journalist, Stroud
Derya Han, psychologist
Sienna Brown, Producer, Pine Street Films, Sydney, Australia
Rebecca Ingram, Documentary Filmaker, Byron Bay
David Ingram, Film Production Designer, Vaucluse
Ian Shaw, Public Servant of Victoria
Ernie Eason, ex-Prison Officer of NSW Corrective Services
Cindy Watson, Manager, Readback Books, Darwin
Andreea Maddox, Drea's DreamShops, Sydney
Carolyn Ienna, Entertainer, Sydney
Luke Psywalker, D.J., Byron Bay
Doreen P. Colket, USA.
Francis MacDonald-Ingram, Welsh Story Teller, United Kingdom
Connor Calhaun, Aboriginal Dancer, 8 years old, Canterbury, NSW
Emma Beckett, Awabakal Pre-School, Newcastle
Narelle Miller, Families First Program, Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council
Delece Manton, Manager, Warlga Ngurra Newcastle
Janice MacAskill, Warlga Ngurra Newcastle
Sue Slee, Warlga Ngurra Newcastle
Shandalee Saunders, Kup-Poon-Dee Raymond Terrace
Tony Cameron, Men's Worker Kup-Poon-Dee Community Services Raymond Terrace
Sharon Taylor, Indigenous Early Education Person
Sabine Wagnre, Carries Place, Maitalnd
Anne Hayter, Port Stevens Youth Options Coordinator, Raymond Terrace
Jenny Campbell, Aboriginal Education Worker
Margaret Wilkinson, Assistant Principal & Chair of Indigenous Education Committee, Clovelly Public School
Vanessa Fitzgibbon, Teacher, Clovelly Public School
Stephen Friend, Solicitor for Black Fella's Dreaming Museum
Eric Nair, former employee, Black Fella's Dreaming Museum
Lyn Stark, former employee, Manager, Black Fella's Dreaming Museum
Jules Tweedy, former employee, Black Fella's Dreaming Museum
Anne-Marie Anderson, former employee, Black Fella's Dreaming Museum
Rachel Kitchener, Web-site Designer and student, Melbourne University
Graham Storey, Passionate art lover, Sydney
Aina Ranke, Deeply Concerned Citizen, NSW
Alan Wilkinson, Concerned Citizen, Beuro of Meteorology, NSW
Elizabeth Burke, Concerned Citizen, NSW
Sinddy Ealy, Concerned Citizen, NSW Jeanette Searle, Concerned Citizen, Disability Services, Rockhampton.
Jessica & Michael Hamilton, Parents & Concerned Citizens, Rockhampton.
Joan Flynn, Mother of Koori Kids, Canterbury,NSW.
Chani Rooney, Mother of Koori Kids, NSW.
Christopher Kitchener, Concerned Citizen, Cairns,Qld.
Sara Kitchener, Macquarie University Student, Sydney.
Samantha Hudson, Scotland.
Matt Thomasson, Scotland.
Tania Syron, Mother & Concerned Citizen, NSW.
Annie Lucas, Lucas Clan, concerned citizens.
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The Black Fella’s Dreaming Museum
is a large and overwhelming testimony of Australian history through
Aboriginal
eyes. And it easily moves people. Gathered by an Aboriginal man, Gordon
Syron,
an urban Aboriginal art pioneer, it is one of the largest Aboriginal
owned
collections that is not connected to any institution. Approximately 20
% of the artworks, artifacts,all installations, books, historical
relics all furniture were recently auctioned by Bonhams & Goodmans
on
9 May 2007.
As Middleton wrote in the Koori Mail, "the auction is expected to dispose of more than 1,000 souvenirs,
history,artefacts and other cultural items after artist Gordon Syron
was forced to liquidate his Black Fellas Dreaming Gallery."
And Paul Bibby reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, "One of the largest collections of Indigenous art and artifacts
remaining in Aboriginal hands will be split up and sold within weeks
after the owners were forced to shut their Sydney gallery and call in auctioneers."
This collection should not be spilt up and sold off to private collectors
overseas. It should be a National Treasure, placed safely in the hands of
Aboriginal people and remain on public view.
The Museum was housed and on display in Bangalow for some years and where
school groups toured the Museum for educational purposes:
Steve Strong, Mullumbimby High School teacher states; "I recently took a
group of year 11 students to Black Fella’s Dreaming Museum.
We arrived at 11 o'clock and the next time I checked it was two o'clock. We
spent three hours in this 'shed'. No-one complained or found this a task, in
fact, I had to force these students to leave. A brilliant experience for any
teacher/student who is serious in their attempts to understand Aboriginal
culture. In my eyes such an excursion is mandatory, not optional."
The museum is running out of time. We hope your support or suggestions will help us gain
leverage to attain funding to save the collection. Aboriginal Culture should
remain under the guardianship of Aboriginal People, in safekeeping for the
future generations.
A promo DVD of the collection is available upon request.
Please circulate this Web Site address: http://blackfellasdreaming.com.au/campaign.html to others so that they can join the list
of supporters of our goal to keep the Black Fella’s Dreaming Aborignal
Art Museum together.
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