The Singing Hill
Glenda Cloughley tells a 30-year-old visionary story about the land beneath Australia’s Parliament House in Ngambri -Ngunnawal country
Presented with A Chorus of Women. former Senator Jo Vallentine and Sally's Blake's visual images.
'The Singing Hill' poem by Dorothy Cameron
Story and music by Glenda Cloughley
A Chorus of Women directed by Johanna McBride
Images and video production by Sally Blake
Sound engineering and mixing by Danny Pratt, With Love Records
'Dear Earth' — by Johanna McBride, sung by A Chorus of Women, with images by Sally Blake for Day 1
Re-Integrating the Arts conversation event – How can the arts help to find new ways to look at climate change and find solutions?
On 22 October 2020, an enlivening conversation between old Canberra friends Dr Sally Blake and Dr Robert Glasser showed how pathways to creative social change can emerge when artists and scientists share their stories.
In this first in a series of Women’s Climate Congress conversations, visual artist Sally Blake met with Robert Glasser, a climate change practitioner, advocate and policymaker. Bringing together their unique perspectives, knowledge and ways of thinking, they gave a fresh look at climate change and its impact on humans and the natural world. This opened into a lively conversation with the audience.
We were reminded about the wise paths Indigenous peoples take when they integrate profound scientific understanding in stories, visual arts, music and dance. Sally’s stories about artworks she created after last summer’s catastrophic fires encouraged Robert to talk of experiences in climate-devastated traditional Australian and African communities.
Canberra film and philosophy night (October 2020). ACT members joined with members of A Chorus of Women at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture to watch the film Signs out of Time, a documentary film about the life and work of Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994).