Kingston resident and author, Barry Golding, will share stories about his compelling journey in southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country through the eyes of six iconic mountains in central Victoria. The featured mountains are today called Mt Kooroocheang [near Smeaton], Mt Beckworth [near Clunes], Mt Greenock [near Talbot], Mt Tarrengower [near Maldon], Mt Alexander [near Castlemaine] and Mt Franklin [near Daylesford].
“Six Peaks Speak: Unsettling Legacies in Southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country” is an interdisciplinary and intercultural story across time, cultures, contested histories and unsettled relationships, uniquely traversing First Nations and unsettler, history, geology, ecology, anthropology and reserve management.
This conversation with Barry at Yandoit Cultural is an opportunity to learn more about the mountains in our local area – past and present – and to explore ways those mountains can be protected into the future. Barry will focus on some of the lesser known legacies in his book associated with Lalkambuk /Mt Franklin, with reference also to Gurutjanga / Mt Kooroocheang and Liyanganuk / Mt Alexander.
Rodney Carter, Dja Dja Wurrung Chief Executive Officer, says of the book: “The deep and painstaking research undertaken to bring this book together is significant and impressive. The narrative style, interweaving history of the locations with geology make this book unique, quite beautiful and accessible to a broader audience. It involves a discussion about deeply unsettling legacies, highly relevant today in Australia. It is indeed powerful and disquieting at the same time.”
When: Saturday April 26th, at 4.00pm
Where: Yandoit Cultural- the old church in the bush, Uniting Church Rd, off High St, Yandoit
Cost: Suggested donation- $10.00/8.00.
Bookings: https://yandoitcultural.org/bookings/
