Several notches above a regulation making-of docu, "The Balanda and the Bark Canoes" is an enlightening excursion to the remote set of Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes." Centered on cross-cultural issues ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - As light fades on the shores of Sydney Harbour, a group of men finish building a traditional aboriginal canoe using bark from eucalyptus trees. Smoke smothers the strips of bark as ...

With the help of students from the Under One Sky Friendship Centre, Shane Perley-Dutcher constructed a 15-foot, traditional Wolastoqey birch bark canoe with materials harvested off the land. Trump ...

LANSING — When Tom Byers first laid eyes on a birch bark canoe, it wasn’t what he saw that captivated him most. It was what he heard. “I hesitate to say the canoe spoke to me, but that’s what happened ...

Ever-venturesome Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, in his beautiful but demanding “Ten Canoes,” takes the viewer back 1,000 years to evoke the lives of Aborigines and even further, to a mythological ...

Aboriginal people have long used bark, wood and trees for practical and symbolic purposes. These include making canoes, containers, shields and wooden implements, accessing food resources, and marking ...

Another spellbinding throwback to the Australian New Wave of the 1970s, including such films as "The Last Wave," "Ten Canoes" transports viewers to a world unlike any other. Set in the vast, ...

POSTPONED - Probably to Sun Nov 12th. Come watch and participate in the making of a traditional bark canoe that will embark in the People’s Blockade, with Gummipingal men John and Shawn, of the Worimi ...

Indigenous students and community members gathered at the beach outside the Northwestern Sailing Center on Friday morning to launch a hand-crafted birch bark canoe for its inaugural trip on Lake ...