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 ...

This is the second part of a series of articles on the 2006 Sydney Film Festival, held June 9-25. The first part was posted July 17. Over the past two years the number of features made in Australia ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wayne Valliere practices the long-lost art of birchbark canoe building. Northwestern’s indigenous artist-in-residence practices the long-lost art of birchbark canoe building.

knowledge on to younger men in a bid to instill cultural pride. held at Sydney’s Maritime Museum from May 30 to June 1. “We’re getting the elders and the younger people involved. It puts that ...

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 ...