Archive - Poetics of Resistance’s Newsletter

TRUST THE WOMEN MOTHER AS I HAVE DONE

On this date back in 1911, Australian and New Zealand women were the stars of the Women's Suffrage Coronation Demonstration in London. Daughters of…

Jun 17

May 2025

DUDE, WHERE’S MY MUSEUM?

Future-fit? Turn and face the strange changes.

May 23

February 2025

RECENT READING 3: the past as present and future

Museum curator Professor Dan Hicks writes about history, culture and why we need to change the way we think about the past. Part 3 of my trilogy about…

Feb 11

RECENT READING 2: You've got to fire up

Vivien Goldman's "Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz"

Feb 5

January 2025

In a world gone mad for distractions: some books that aren’t, from Kerouac to the Benin Bronzes via a Punky Reggae Party

Jan 27

SLEEVENOTES: FORAYS INTO MUSIC'S UNEXPLORED HINTERLANDS

At the Well of Longing: Rebecca Hancock's perfect music of imperfection

Jan 11

November 2024

Remembrance Day, 11 November

Few have captured this day's meaning better than mariner and amateur artist William Cockell, who painted returning hospital ships in his home port of…

Nov 11, 2024

October 2024

TUTJURANGARA MASSACRE: AUSTRALIA'S GUERNICA

Why won’t Australians look their past in the eye?

Oct 23, 2024

March 2024

Janet Inyika on Maralinga: "We were the survivors"

On International Women's Day let's remember an activist and artist whose accounts of her lived experience of radioactive fallout counter official…

Mar 8, 2024

February 2024

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, SIXTY YEARS ON

In 1964 The Beatles' first film took Beatlemania and made a hit movie out of it.... in glorious black-and-white. What to make of it six decades later?

Feb 22, 2024

October 2023

TIME FOR TRUTH PART 2: DRIVEITLIKEYOUSTOLEIT

A referendum to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the constitution is almost upon us. Treaty and Truth might follow. Is Aboriginal and…

Oct 9, 2023

TRANSCENDENCE - a virtual exhibition

“Transcendent, with awesome majesty", (composer John Tavener's instruction to musicians, The Protecting Veil).

Oct 2, 2023

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