SIENNA BROWN
CALLALOO & WATTLESEED
A Symposium on Caribbean Culture in Australia
Held at Western Sydney University, Parramatta City Campus
May 3, 2024
Building on pioneering efforts to recover the long history of Caribbean people in Australia and to understand movements of people between the regions, Callaloo & Wattleseed focused, for the first time, squarely on the cultural contributions of Caribbean Australians.
Caribbean artists from various fields were brought together to consider through the prism of their practice questions like:
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Do Caribbean artists work within a ‘diaspora’ or ‘community’ in Australia?
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Or do their experiences tend to be more isolated, on the one hand, or placed into broader groups, such as the global African or South Asian diasporas, on the other?
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How have Caribbean artists in Australia navigated the experience of being, in many cases, part of minoritized racial groups?
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What have been the connections and relations between Caribbean and First Nations people?
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How do the experiences of Caribbean artists compare with those who have emigrated to other parts of the world?
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