Follow our BSC blog here > DARK SKY DREAMINGS: AN INLAND SKYWRITERS ANTHOLOGYĢ020: Dark Sky Dreamings: an Inland Skywriters Anthology, edited by Merrill Findlay with Suzie Gibson and Val Clarke, is the first book to emerge from our Big Skies Collaboration. My own BSC involvements include the Condo SkyFest, the Inland Astro-Trail (IAT) ( more), the IAT Symposium, the Skywriters Project, and our first book, Dark Sky Dreamings: An Inland Skywriters Anthology (IP, Nov.
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READ the libretto, LISTEN to the arias and/or BUY the full score here > BIG SKIES COLLABORATION: STORIES OF THE COSMOSīig Skies Collaboration (BSC), the cultural intervention I co-established in 2016/17, brings together arts practitioners, astronomers, and local communities to celebrate people’s relationships with the Cosmos, and catalyze new opportunities for communities in southeastern Australia’s rural inland. This contemporary chamber opera emerged from The Kate Kelly Project, one of my ongoing cultural interventions in rural Australia.
Songs for Kate, by writer/filmmaker Tracy Sorensen, documents the development of The Kate Kelly Song Cycle, my creative collaboration with composer Ross Carey. Songs For Kate Highlights Merrill’s Work, Forbes Advocate, 7 August 2014: “A documentary featuring Forbes writer Merrill Findlay will be distributed to schools, libraries, and universities in Australia and internationally after recently being picked up by Canberra-based company, Ronin Films,” Sophie Harris writes … more > Read the full reviews here > THE KATE KELLY SONG CYCLE “an alluring and evocative piece…cleverly bridges personal storytelling and cultural interconnectedness.” – Limelight Very exciting!Īnd now the steaming season has been extended for the entire month of November 2020. So if you missed it in October, you can still catch it! Bookings here > October/November 2020: Kate Kelly, the chamber opera that composer Ross James Carey and I co-created a decade ago, was given new life by Melbourne’s Gertrude Opera Company in their COVID-era production for the 2020 Yarra Valley Opera Festival. Please read on > GERTRUDE OPERA COMPANY DOES KATE KELLY Today, I’ll take you to Khurasan Refugee Camp near Peshawar to meet my young friend ‘Ariana’ (not her real name) and some of the refugee families she introduced me to. What could I say from my safe little inland town in far-off Australia? In my powerlessness, all I can think to do now is post some of my writings and photos from my visit to the refugee camps in Pakistan in 2006 in the hope they might help readers understand what has been happening in Qais’s homeland over the last 30 years. Was there any way I could get them out of Kabul?, he asked desperately. He was terrified for family members still in Afghanistan, including his real mother and siblings. 3 September 2021: Soon after the US military left Kabul last week, I received a call from my young friend Qais in Germany.
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