Deep Wisdom Conversations 2024
CHAIRS: Rhoda Roberts AO | Lydia Miller | Aaron Fa'aoso

SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER
Salt House Festival Hub
1:00pm-4:30pm

• The Turning Point — Sovereignty, Country, Voice, and Action The uncomfortable Truth-Telling conversations from the reclamation of Cultural and financial economies, to how we navigate the next leadership and community voices (90mins).
  SPEAKERS:
  Larissa Baldwin Roberts (Chief Executive Officer, GetUp)
  Nathanael Edwards (Principal, Radiant Life College)
  Aaron Fa’Aoso (Treaty Queensland)
  1:00pm

• Shaping the Future — Ancient to Modern First Nations peoples have engineered the landscape using age-old technologies, shaped by cultural systems that respond to seasonal changes and environmental circumstance, based on our philosophies where everything is ‘entwined’.
  SPEAKERS:
  Professor Henrietta Marrie-Fourmile AM
  Distinguished Professor Sean Ulm
  Doctor Gerry Turpin
  3:00pm

SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER
Salt House Festival Hub
1:00pm-4:30pm

• Talk of Country Representatives from four neighbouring Nations explain the reasoning behind connection to their homelands, its importance and their obligations as caretakers.
  SPEAKERS:
  Cultural Guides Committee
  1:00pm

• The Tensions of Rising Waters Gimuy/Cairns sits on the edge of fragile ecosystems bordering the ocean. The impacts of a rise in waters and the warming of the seas will affect us all and have a domino effect. Those most in its wake are our Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait Islander communities.
  SPEAKERS:
  Yessie Mosby (Torres8)
  Jade Pryor (Girringun Rangers)
  Linc Walker (Chair, Cape York Special Fisheries Working Group)
  3:00pm

• Women in Music In conversation with Rhoda Roberts AO is Jodie Cockatoo Creed and Deline Briscoe.
  3:30pm

“In the wake of the 2023 referendum, a week of silence followed. Win or lose the referendum,
results were felt deeply. As we move forward, what is the new perspectives for the now and the
50-year focus. Is there a track we can all navigate?”

— Rhoda Roberts AO, Artistic Director

For tickets and sessions details visit our ticketing platform Shineongimuy.au

Deep Wisdom Conversations 2024 is made possible by support from James Cook University (JCU) and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF)