Talking Place: Unfolding Conversations

Robinson, Sarah and Lukowska, Monika, eds. (2019) Talking Place: Unfolding Conversations. Mandurah Performing Arts Centre (ManPAC), Mandurah Perth. ISBN 978-0-6485071-4-7

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Abstract

Talking Place: Unfolding Conversations is a publication documenting the collaborative project between Tracy Hill, Monika Lukowska, Annette Nykiel, Sarah Robinson, and Jane Whelan exploring the significance of wetlands with particular focus on Lake Walyungup; a shallow, ephemeral salt-lake in the Rockingham area of Perth. Known by the local Noongar people as ‘the place where people talk’, Lake Walyungup is a seemingly forgotten, empty space in the midst of a growing urban community which offers shelter to migratory birds and wildlife. It has a deep history embedded in thrombolite remains, links with the Noongar community and various historical uses by the passing groups of settlers and armed forces.

Contents

Section title
Section author
Page
Introduction
Gary Aitken
3
Talking Place: Unfolding Conversations. Stories of Place Re-imagined and Retold
Professor Clive Barstow
5
The Story: History and Science
Dr Annette Nykiel
11
Birds Nesting at Walyungup Place of the Ancestors Crying Wailing
Trevor Walley
17
Matrix of Movement
Tracy Hill
21
Finding Place
UNSPECIFIED
27
Salt, Two Wrens, and a Knock at the Door
Ryan Burge
39

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