Image: NGURRAWAANA (2023) GARUWA x Juluwarlu Art Group, Cinematographer Ryan Andrew Lee, on Yindjibarndi Country
Course Guide: OART1103
Lecturer: Worimi curator and educator Genevieve Grieves with guest presenters
Course Coordinator: A/Professor Marnie Badham marnie.badham@rmit.edu.au
*Offered 2x per year.
Delivery mode: Intensive
Location: Bunjilka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum
FLEX TERM intensive: 24 June 2025 7-9pm online. 30 June- 6 July 2025 10am-5pm in person at Museum. tbc Final Presentations online.
SEM 2 Break intensive: 26 August 2025 7-9pm online. 1-5 September 2025 10am-5pm in person at Museum. tbc Final Presentations online.
WORKING IN FIRST PEOPLES CONTEXTS has been developed by Worimi woman Genevieve Grieves of GARUWA in collaboration with RMIT University. This Indigenous-led course supports you to learn and apply knowledge across a range of cultural and social frameworks including: settler-colonialism, race, cultural safety, and intercultural collaboration.
The course supports professional learning and career development in fields such as the creative arts, cultural production, curation, arts management, festivals, public art, education and community development work.
You will engage in self-reflexivity and will build a transferrable set of skills that encompasses intercultural, collaborative, self-determining approaches to working with local communities and and global contexts.
This interdisciplinary course is delivered through online and intensive delivery modes including lectures, workshops, and tutorials including discussion, guest and student presentations, group fieldwork and support to develop your own cultural production project.
To add a Flex Term Course in Enrolment Online, choose the ‘Additional Term’ PGRD flexible term 2024 tab, select ‘add classes’, then ‘class search’ when looking for elective. Student groups eligible to enrol: Open to all PGRD students from any School at RMIT (and Single Course enrollments from associated industries).