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Selected essays and articles from Andrew's work in the Arts and Arts Education
Reconciliation Stories - Ngarrindjeri Kaikulun Rrugiyan
As I was going through archived material in order to write the third in this series, it leapt out at me already written. The following...
Reconciliation Stories - Yidaki
In 1987 newly formed Dance Excentrix was preparing a program for the 1988 Fringe Festival, under founding Artistic Director Elizabeth...
Reconciliation Stories - Peramangk
In the early eighties my partner Suzi introduced me to the land we have now lived on for more than 40 years. On that first walk through...
A Question of Gender.
Recent public events have led me to reflect on the nature of gender and gender identification. In my peer group, which includes my...
A Musical Journey
The Dancer - Music From Without to Within. As a dancer one develops a relationship with music that is receptive and responsive. It seems...
The Musings of a Street Performer.
The Best Things In Life Are Free. I am sure you were being ironic little Beatles when you said, “The best things in life are free, but...
A Story From My School
Cat's Home I love teaching music. Ten or so years ago I had a student in my Celtic Whistle class who was distressed because her beloved...
Creativity and Individuality in Education through Arts Practice (Breaking the Mould)
I recently read a school prospectus in which the school "acknowledges its responsibility to the needs of the nation by providing those...
Challenging Kids - Magic Kids
I love the term "Challenging Behaviour". How do we respond to unruly, disruptive, rude, disrespectful or otherwise difficult behaviour?...
The Act of Creation.
The following ideas include a summary of those introduced in the opening chapter of a book called Creative and Mental Growth, written...
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