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Bubbles on the surface IIIArt exhibitionDate: To Wednesday 25 March 
For Community, Monash staff and students Format Exhibition Overview This exciting exhibition is the culmination of Professor Margaret Somerville's Australian Research Council project about environmental sustainability. Bubbles on the Surface is about water in the drylands of the Murray-Darling Basin. In this project we ask: What are the alternative stories about water and how can we learn them, as individuals and as a nation, in order to transform our approaches to water in this old dry land? Indigenous artists responded with stories about how to care for country and water places in text and artworks. The artworks and accompanying catalogues bring some of the processes and outcomes of the research project to the Australian public. Somerville describes the creative approach to research as ‘the always unfinished business of singing the country’. It is an approach through which the health and vitality of the waterways of the Murray-Darling Basin can be restored, if only we listen and learn. Wednesday 25 March Join us for on the final day to celebrate the success of this exhibition. 12.30 pm - Artists will conduct floor talks in Switchback Gallery . The talks will describe the research project and the artists’ connections to land and water places expressed through their art works. Their personal stories of identity and land highlight an alternative approach to sustainability through visual art and cultural practice. 2 - 3.30 pm - Yorta Yorta artist Treahna Hamm will offer basket weaving workshops for a limited number of participants using reeds found on the Churchill campus. She will describe how weaving makes connections between land, culture and identity. 4 pm - Join artists and researchers for drinks and nibbles, a last chance to enjoy the exhibition and purchase the art works. To book Bookings are not required. For further information contact Phoenix de Carteret on +61 3 5122 6338 or email phoenix.decarteret@education.monash.edu.au. Getting there Use this opportunity to leave the car at home:
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