The Ningaloo Trail: Discovering the Stefano Coast Colloquium – Program Schedule
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCREEN AND SOUND RESEARCH CENTRE
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY
in association with
BARQUE STEFANO YINIKURTIRA FOUNDATION
The Ningaloo Trail:
Discovering the Stefano Coast
Colloquium Program
17, 18-19 April 2015
Venue: Murdoch University
Perth, Western Australia
FRIDAY 17 APRIL
Pre-Colloquium Drinks and Screening
Hill Lecture Theatre
Education and Humanities Building 450
1:30 – 2:00 pm Welcome Drinks
Venue: Outside Hill Lecture Theatre under the Javanese Pendopo
2:00 – 4:00 pm Introduction by Chris Smyth former Dean,
School of Arts, discussion and screening of
WADJEMUP: Black Prison – White Playground
directed by
Dr Glen Stasiuk
—————————————————-
COLLOQUIUM DAY ONE
Saturday 18 April 2015
Venue: EH Room 4.078
10.00-10:30 MC Kathryn Trees
Mayor, City of Fremantle Brad Pettitt
Early Days/ Charles Tuckey John Honniball
10:30-11:00 Barque Stefano Trail Josko Petkovic
11:00-11:30 Yinikurtira People Ann Preest and Russell Levien
11:30-12:00 Creative Signage Ron Gomboc
12:00-1:00 LUNCH (Venue: Club Murdoch Conference Room)
1:00-1:30 Point Cloates Halina Kobryn, Josko Petkovic
1:30-2:00 Ningaloo Cyber Atlas Halina Kobryn, Lynnath Beckley,
2:00-2:30 Trail Festive Tradition: Chair: Jenny de Reuck
The Clay Pan Project Audrey and Arif Fernandes-Satar
2:30-3:00 COFFEE
3:00-3:30 The Gnaraloo Turtle Melissa Tan, Toby Ekman
Conservation Program and Andy Leach
3:30-4:00 Trail Education Greg Battye
—————————————————-
COLLOQUIUM DAY TWO
Sunday 19 April 2015
Venue: EH Room 4.078
10:00 -12:00 Plenary 1 Educational Strategies
Learning with Trails
Early Education
High School
Tertiary and Research Trail Education
Conservation Programs
In Country Experience
Leadership Education
Suicide Prevention
Prison Education
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch (Venue: Club Murdoch Conference Room)
1:00 – 3:00 Plenary 2 Funding Strategies
Australian Research Council Grants
Office for Learning and Teaching Grants
WAITOC
Gascoyne Commission
Shires of Exmouth, Carnarvon
Private Corporations
Philanthropic Sources
Pastoral Stations (Leonie McLeod – Warroora Station)
3:00 Message from The University of Dubrovnik
Silvija Batos (paper submission)
Background
The Ningaloo Trail: Discovering the Stefano Coast Colloquium
The remote Ningaloo Coast is one of the most impressive coastlines in the world. It contains the longest fringe coral reef in Australia and its pristine beauty is protected by a series of marine parks. In June 2011 the World Heritage Committee declared the Ningaloo Coast, including Cape Range National Park, to be on the World Heritage List.
In 1875, when this coastline was still largely unexplored by Europeans, it became the setting for a most dramatic shipwreck story involving the stranded mariners from the barque Stefano and the local Yinikurtira (West Talanjdi) Australians. The full details of this story were kept secret for over 120 years and became known only in 1990 when Gustave Rathe, the grandson of one of the only two survivors, published his book The Wreck of the Barque Stefano off the North West Coast of Australia (Hesperian Press). The book itself was an adaptation of the secret manuscript kept by the survivors’ descendants along with a compilation of other information available on the shipwreck. The manuscript came with a map on which the alphabetical points A to Z depicted the locations where the castaways had travelled. This journey by the Stefano mariners in 1875-6 neatly overlaps today’s World Heritage-listed Ningaloo coastline.
The Stefano Manuscript Map of the North-West of Western Australia
Since the publication of Rathe’s book an ever-growing number of readers have become convinced that the Stefano shipwreck has all the hallmarks of a classic narrative. A group of these committed enthusiasts are now working with descendants of Yinikurtira Australians to have this story permanently inscribed on the Ningaloo landscape as the Barque Stefano Yinikurtira Trail. In 2011 a Lottery West Trail Planning grant made it possible to fix the coordinates of the Trail locations. In 2012 the Barque Stefano Yinikurtira not-for-profit Foundation was established to oversee the establishment of the Trail.
The high point of the proposed Trail will be a chain of spectacular beach artworks leading to an Indigenous Education and Research Centre for Land and Sea Coastal Habitat in Exmouth. When the Trail is completed the Ningaloo coastline as a whole will become one large exterior art gallery hosting 21 large sculptured artworks by acclaimed Australian and international artists. Visitors will be guided to these localities by a GPS-connected Trail in cyberspace.
The aim of this Colloquium is to consolidate this Trail vision. You are invited to send in a short 150 word Abstract for a 20-30 minute presentation that can contribute to our knowledge of:
- Ningaloo Coastal Land and Marine Habitat – especially in the proximity of: Red Bluff, Gnaraloo Bay, Nine Mile Bore, Bulbarli Well, Warroora Fig Tree Well, Stevenson Well, Yalobia, Bruboodjoo, Twin Peaks, Jane Bay, Black Rock, Norwegian Bay, Lefroy Bay, Yardie Creek, Pilgonaman Well, Tulkie Well, Point Murat, Bundegi Beach, Wapet Creek, Bay of Rest, South Muiron Island.
- Ningaloo Indigenous and Heritage Sites
- Yinikurtira Country and its People
- Colonial Western Australia circa 1875-6
- The Stefano Shipwreck Story
- The Stefano Manuscript
- Education Potential of the Stefano Shipwreck Narrative
- The Stefano Coast: Indigenous Tourism and Knowledge Tourism
- Creative Collaboration: The Art of the Reef
- The Stefano Trail: Preserving the Ningaloo World Heritage Coast
- The Stefano Trail: Cyber Technology
- The Stefano Trail: The Spirit of the Sculptured Signage
- The Stefano Trail: Festive Tradition – 4 July
- Cultural Collaboration in the Indian Ocean
- Currents of Dreaming and Saltwater People
PRESENTERS
Professor Lynnath Beckley, Marine Management Research Group, Murdoch University
Professor Greg Battye, University of Canberra
Toby Ekman, The Gnaraloo Turtle Conservation Program
Dr Audrey Fernandes-Satar, Murdoch University
Ron Gomboc, Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park
John Honniball, WA Historical Society (relative of Charles Tuckey)
Dr Halina Kobryn, Marine Management Research Group, Murdoch University
Andy Leach, The Gnaraloo Turtle Conservation Program
Russell Levian, Manager, Harold E. Holt Communication Station, Exmouth
Associate Professor Josko Petkovic, Director NASS, Chair BSYF
Dr Brad Pettitt, Mayor City of Fremantle
Ann Preest, Chair North West Cape Exmouth Aboriginal Corporation
Associate Professor Jenny de Reuck, Murdoch University, NASS Board
Chris Smyth, former Dean School of Arts, Murdoch University
Dr Glen Stasiuk, Director, WADJEMUP, Murdoch University
Melissa Tan, The Gnaraloo Turtle Conservation Program
Dr Kathryn Trees, Murdoch University
OTHER REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Silvija Batos (MSc) The University of Dubrovnik
Professor Robert Bucat, The University of WA
Steve Hammond, Consultancy
Associate Professor Libby Lee Hammond, Murdoch University
Leonie McLeod, Warroora Station
Dr David Palmer, Community Development , Murdoch University
Jelena Rakovic, PhD candidate UWA School of Education
Dr Frank Rijavec, Producer/ Director Snakewood Films
Marilyn Rulyancich, Managing Director Flame Events
Warren Tacey, Warren Tacey Environmental Consulting
Associate Professor (Adj) Andrew Turk, Murdoch University
Nada Zuvela, Korcula Committee
APOLOGIES
Chapple Professor David Andrich, The University of WA, Committee Member BSYF
Professor Lynnath Beckley, Marine Management Research Group, Murdoch University
Margaret Carol, Committee Member BSYF
Wayne Gibbons, Committee Member BSYF
Simon Haig, Director, GCM Advisory Pty Ltd
Dr Bill Humphreys, WA Museum
Dr Martin Mhando, Zanzibar International Film Festival, NASS Board Member
Professor Susan Moore, Leader Nature Based Tourism Research Group, Murdoch University
Neven Smoje, Research collaborator of Gustave Rathe
Keith Spence, Deputy Chair, BSYF
Lyn Sutton, Secretary BSYF
Dr Susan Tucker, Tulane University, New Orleans
