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Do you want to deepen your understanding of how to best work with First Nations’ stories and story owners? Come along and learn from co-authors of Warra Warra Wai, Craig Cormick and Darren Rix. Craig is an award-winning author, science communicator and long-time supporter of the Canberra and broader writing community across Australia.  Darren is an author, musician and cultural leader and guide, a Gunditjmara-GunaiKurnai man with Ngarigo bloodlines. Together they will introduce you to some of the great cultural guides that exist for writers and researchers, and highlight principles using different types of consultations and engagements they undertook for Warra Warra Wai as case study examples.  Craig and Darren will also work with people on their own particular issues, questions or concerns, brainstorming what might be the best way forward with the group.

Dr Craig Cormick OAM is an award-winning author and science communicator. He has been a Writer in Residence in Malaysia and in Antarctica and writes fiction, non-fiction and children's books. He is a former Chair of the ACT Writers Centre and his latest book – cowritten with First Nations author Darren Rix - is the award-winning Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People.  Find him at www.craigcormick.com

Darren Rix, a Gunditjmara-GunaiKurnai man with Ngarigo bloodlines, grew up in the tin huts and tents of ‘Silver City’, South Nowra, with his eleven siblings. His family later got their first house in the Bega Valley, and he attended school in Bega. At fourteen, Darren moved to Ngunnawal country – Canberra – to which he has songline ties through his Ngarigo bloodlines. He has worked as a radio reporter for the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association, and with the Ngunnawal people as a cultural sites officer in Canberra. Darren is an accomplished musician, as was his uncle, Archie Roach. He has appeared in the TV program Rake. Darren has six children and twelve grandchildren.
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