Is this a place or activity you would suggest for families with kids. Partnering equitably with aboriginal artists, art workers, art centres and enterprises to facilitate pathways to sustaining culture, increased income generation, different creative mediums, cultural exchange, and contemporary celebrations and understandings of traditional knowledge through art. Canning stock route project december 9, 20 today the human rights awards are being held to celebrate people who contribute toward human rights in australia. Thats not to say that you cant ride a more normal mountain bike along. Well drive through aboriginal land and therefore we need to have valid permits. This heavily referenced and comprehensively indexed book is destined to become the definitive history of the canning stock route and will appeal to general and professional readers, historians, anthropologists, scientists, family history researchers, local shires, tour companies, tourists and csr travellers. Find canning stock route by norma barne at blurb books. A permit is required for each vehicle travelling the stock route. This resulted in more than two hundred and forty aboriginal people and over one hundred nonaboriginal people being involved in the project. Our canning stock route tours travel the original canning stock route created by albert canning in 1908 for kimberley cattlemen to take their stock to the southern markets. Canning stock route expedition 4wd tagalongtour 1st jul 2020 22nd jul 2020. There are numerous books available which can assist you in your planning process.
Only one name needs to be entered as the applicant, preferably either the owner if on the trip or the main driver of the vehicle. Following the route or close to it blazed by alfred canning back in 1906, this track covers roughly 1850km of pure offroad heaven, stretching from halls creek in the kimberley region to wiluna in midwest western australia. Ngurra kuju walyja one country one people the canning stock route project tells an intercultural and intergenerational story of community. Canning and the development and subsequent use of the 1800 kilometre long canning stock route from halls creek to wiluna is told in this new volume. It is the processes generated by the canning stock route project and the participation that made the yiwarra kuju exhibition possible that i wish to explore in this essay. When it comes to australias top 4wd tracks, they dont come much bigger than the canning stock route. First of all, we need two permits to drive the canning stock route. Gopro photo time lapse along the canning stock route photos are here. The following are just a few suggested by the australian national 4wd council. Canning stock route project, however developed, its journey, the artists, history of the canning stock route, professional development and mentorship program, the paintings, multimedia and the people. This article discusses the processes, practices and successes of the canning stock route project and yirwarra kuju exhibition, carried out between 2006 and 2012.
They were originally designed for snow, but soft sand is another of the few mediums ive ridden where there is a genuine possibleimpossible delineation. The canning stock route, currently on display at the national museum of australia is a remarkable exhibition. Fat tyres and wide rims have made unsupported canning stock route travel possible. B this article has been rated as bclass on the projects quality scale. Canning stock route by norma barne blurb books australia. Im in the midst of reading the massive ngurra kuju walyja one country one people stories from the canning stock route macmillan, 2011, a companion volume to the exhibition catalog yiwarra kuju from the national museum of australia.
But this indigenousmodelled, relationalcuratorial project achieved an arts industry first of staggering proportion. Yiwarra kuju includes beautiful plates of the complete canning. Luckily we can apply online and as soon as the payment is done, we get the permit sent by email. Original historical documents are combined with oral history in a narrative that covers the origins of the stock route, surveying, construction of the wells, droving, deaths and murders, exploration and. The deceptively simple version of this story is that it tells the aboriginal point of view of the canning stock route, a watering route for cattle blazed in 1906 and running 1,850 kilometers across western australia. What the canning stock route project has shown remarkably well is the responsiveness of younger generations of aboriginal peoples to new creative technologies.
If you would like to participate, visit the project page. The csr traverses three australian deserts, the great sandy desert, the gibson desert and the little sandy desert and covers over 1800km of remote overlanding by 4wd without access to a workshop, hospital or emergency services. The white man history has been told and its today in the book. Canning stock route alfred wernam canning 18601936 was appointed to survey a stockroute to bring cattle from the east kimberly to the goldfields in 19061907. Journal article 1994 1739 a brief history of the canning stock route book 1980 1047 a time to keep. Preparation is important to ensure you have a safe and enjoyable journey on the canning stock route csr. Yiwarra kuju, the canning stock route by national museum of. Canning stock route tours from broome, darwin, kununurra, halls creek, perth, alice springs. Canning stock route tours 2017 canning stock route tours 2017 from broome, darwin, kununurra, halls creek, perth, alice springs. It is the processes generated by the canning stock route project and the.
Booktopia has yiwarra kuju, the canning stock route by national museum of australia. Canning stock route is within the scope of wikiproject australia, which aims to improve wikipedia s coverage of australia and australiarelated topics. The canning stock route is a track that runs from halls creek in the kimberley region of. The canning stock route project is a collaboration which shares and explores the art, culture, histories and connections of the. The csr travelled in may 2015 returning in 2017 for a three week photographic tourexperience. Follow us on part six of our epic 4x4 canning stock route crossing. John carty is a canning stock route project anthropologist who has worked extensively throughout the western desert and kimberley regions. The canning stock route was held at the national museum of australia canberra from 30 july 2010 till 26 january 2011. John carty is a canning stock route project anthropologist who has worked extensively. As the canning stock route project anthropologist, he has recorded many. Here you can mark if you have read this book, reading it or want to read.
Built in 1910 to break the west kimberley beef monopoly, the route begins in halls creek and extends all the way to wiluna in the midwest, a distance of over 1800kms. The canning stock route project tells an intercultural and intergenerational story of aboriginal community, collaboration and reconciliation. This group of pictures are of graves and scenery as photographed by john stuart who was part of the well reconstruction party of 1930. One of the key aims of the canning stock route project was the development of a travelling exhibition. The aboriginal history of the worlds longest stock route through the. Form ensured that both major academic books were also presented to all. The wells along the route include bores, lined wells, and modified natural water sources. The canning stock route passes through some of the most remote and isolated country in the world. The project began with modest aims to present an aboriginal history of the canning stock route through art and oral history and establish. Canning stock route trip with diamantina tours june 2014 from halls creek northern territory to wiluna. So the project was designed to bring those artists and storytellers back to the canning stock route and to give them an opportunity to tell their version of events and to paint it and provide. Yiwarra kuju includes beautiful plates of the complete canning stock route collection and tells the story of the stock routes impact, and the importance of the country around it, in aboriginal voices and interpreted through aboriginal eyes. In late 2006, the perthbased nonprofit cultural organisation form initiated ngurra kuju walyja one country, one people the canning stock route project.
Canning stock route is an exhibition in which aboriginal. The canning stock route books and arts abc radio national. They are also a largely visual documentation of the canning stock route project with its tracing of families cut asunder and country transformed, now reunited and stitched together once more, traditions revived, given new shape, and transformed again. The book is so full of insights, beautiful reflective passages i want to return to, and new ways of looking at creativity and the world, that ive dogeared almost every other page.
The canning stock route project is a collaboration which shares and explores the art, culture, histories and connections of the people, country and communities surrounding the canning stock route. Canning stock route project prospectu 2009 by form wa issuu. With a total distance of around 1,850 km 1,150 mi it is the longest historic stock route in the world. The following year, canning returned and began the construction of 51 wells, each set 20 kms apart, which would feed travelling live. Mira represents one of the biggest and most accessible digital archiving project of indigenous cultural content in the world. The canning stock route is a dirt track, nearly 2000 kilometres long, developed on aboriginal homelands as mining and pastoral industries expanded in western australia at. The story of the canning stock routes impact on aboriginal people, through artworks by senior and emerging artists and the stories of traditional custodians. The canning stock route project tells an intercultural and intergenerational story of aboriginal. In 2007, nearly 70 aboriginal artists traveled through the canning stock routea track in western australia along which cattle could be driven from kimberley stations in the north to markets in the southto return to places they had left as children. Low this article has been rated as lowimportance on the projects importance scale. Canning stock route for the enjoyment of all australians indigenous and nonindigenous. How to prepare for the canning stock route one of the. The second half of part one is a series of essays about the project itself.
The canning stock route western australia home facebook. In 2006, an australian nonprofit cultural organisation called form initiated the canning stock route project. The national museum of australia committed to assisting form to develop an exhibition. He and his wife ronele wrote that book, and erics talk brought back many memories. A comprehensive history of the canning stock route 1096 2010 book 20 10171 the beckoning west. Back to tour listing back to tour category listing. Subscribe to the newsletter at the website for information as. This article discusses the processes, practices and successes of the canning stock route project and yirwarra kuju exhibition, carried out. Photograph by john carty, 2008, courtesy of australian research council canning stock route project. A new art project called cross country aims to retell the history of the famous desert track the canning stock route through the art and stories of the western desert.
Form, which initiated the fouryear canning stock route project that. Thanks for information in this booklet that was kindly provided by the leave no trace program, and by the australian national 4wd council from its book travelling in outback australia by g. A number of the wells may still be in extant and in their form. The route is reputed to be the longest stock route in the world. Let our expert guide lead you along the loneliest 4wd track in the world on a challenging 4wd outback tour in the safety of a small convoy. The canning stock route is a track that runs from halls creek in the kimberley region of western australia.
Here is more on the history of the canning stock route. The canning stock route john carty, carly davenport, monique lafontaine on. Ive made rather a mess of my copy of kim mahoods position doubtful. The original route includes 51 wells and stretches 2,0 kilometres from halls creek to wiluna. I wont say much about it today, as i still have hundreds of pages to read. Genuine small group 4wd tour of the iconic canning stock route in 2017 in convoy in comfortable and modern toyota landcruiser gxl vehicles. Heritage council places database canning stock route the canning stock route stretched between wiluna and halls creek, a distance of approximately 1850 km. Yiwarra kuju one road the canning stock route, a joint initiative between the national museum of australia and form. It explores their cultural diversity and interconnections with each other and their country and their part in a greater australian story.
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