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GOVERNOR PHILLIP PARK AUDIO WALK : 11 Stories from the River Dyarubbin
Listen to stories of Dyarubbin / The Hawkesbury River and original music and song they have inspired as you walk along the river in Governor Phillip Park, Balga Ngurrang / Windsor...or from the comfort of wherever you are.
Dharug educator Erin Wilkins is our guide as we hear of the enduring relationship Dharug people have with the river and Wianamatta / South Creek, and why this part of Dyarubbin was likely a women’s area. We hear of Creator Beings & the rivers deep time formation.
Close to here in 1791, Governor Phillip met Dharug leaders Gomberee and Yarramundi and James Ruse and the first ex-convict colonisers began farming in 1794. We hear of the relationships between those settlers, the frontier war that followed their arrival and the impact on Dyarubbin’s Aboriginal people including Nurragingy, the leader of the South Creek Tribe.
We learn of land grants, repeated flooding events, riverbank erosion, boating and water-skiing. We listen in as students from Western Sydney University conduct water testing and talk of the effects of runoff and wastewater on Dyarubbin's water quality, and look over the turf farms to the observatory of John Tebbutt and the old South Creek tannery.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised this audio walk contains stories of historical violence & Aboriginal people now resting in the Dreaming.
WALKING DIRECTIONS:
Starting at the parks entrance, we walk along the path to the river & along the paved pathway at the top of the rivers bank till we reach the Power Boat Club House. We head around the clubhouse to the rock & brass monument beyond the building. We continue along the river to the mouth of Wianamatta / South Creek, before making our way down to the wharf beside the South Creek boat ramp. We then go up to the fence line that runs beside the turf farms and make our way back along this fence to where we started.
GUESTS: (in order of appearance)
Tom Hubble, Associate Professor of Geology, University of Sydney
Jasmine Seymour, Dharug artist, writer and educator
Michael Pattison, Land Management Officer, Hawkesbury City Council
Steve Austin, Waterskier and Hawkesbury local
Frank Laughton, Harold Hall, Chester Smith, and Athol Kemp Hawkesbury riverside farmers, from archival interviews recorded in 1992 by historian Sue Rosen, author of “Losing Ground: An environmental history of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment”
Richie Benson, Senior Field Officer, National Parks and Wildlife Service
Jan Barkley-Jack, Historian and author of "Hawkesbury Settlement Revealed”
Grace Karskens, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of NSW and author of “People of the River"
Dr Ian Wright, Associate Professor in Water Science, Western Sydney University with Water Management Students from WSU testing water at South Creek, April 2019
Scott Will, Hawkesbury local and owner of the South Creek Tannery Site
Lisa Sullivan, Hawkesbury local and owner of Flood impacted Heritage House in the Windsor area
ARTWORK:
Marri Badu Muru © Leanne Mulgo Watson 2022
MUSIC:
“11 Stories from the River Dyarubbin” © Oonagh Sherrard, with Dharug songs © Jasmine Seymour and © Stacy Jane Etal. Musicians: Dimitri Vouros, Gary Daley, Jess Ciampa,
Jasmine Seymour, Stacy Jane Etal, Oonagh Sherrard
ABOUT:
11 Stories From the River Dyarubbin is a collaborative public art work led by composer/ producer Oonagh Sherrard with Hawkesbury Regional Museum, Darug Custodian Aboriginal
Corporation, WSU Sustainable Futures and Hawkesbury Historical Society.
Created with support from the NSW Government through Create NSW, Museums & Galleries NSW and assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its Arts funding and advisory body.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
https://www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au/museum/historical-walks/11-stories-from-the-river-dyarubbin
WATCH EPISODE ON YOU TUBE:
https://youtu.be/J5HNx8y__pM
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By Oonagh SherrardListen to stories of Dyarubbin / The Hawkesbury River and original music and song they have inspired as you walk along the river in Governor Phillip Park, Balga Ngurrang / Windsor...or from the comfort of wherever you are.
Dharug educator Erin Wilkins is our guide as we hear of the enduring relationship Dharug people have with the river and Wianamatta / South Creek, and why this part of Dyarubbin was likely a women’s area. We hear of Creator Beings & the rivers deep time formation.
Close to here in 1791, Governor Phillip met Dharug leaders Gomberee and Yarramundi and James Ruse and the first ex-convict colonisers began farming in 1794. We hear of the relationships between those settlers, the frontier war that followed their arrival and the impact on Dyarubbin’s Aboriginal people including Nurragingy, the leader of the South Creek Tribe.
We learn of land grants, repeated flooding events, riverbank erosion, boating and water-skiing. We listen in as students from Western Sydney University conduct water testing and talk of the effects of runoff and wastewater on Dyarubbin's water quality, and look over the turf farms to the observatory of John Tebbutt and the old South Creek tannery.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised this audio walk contains stories of historical violence & Aboriginal people now resting in the Dreaming.
WALKING DIRECTIONS:
Starting at the parks entrance, we walk along the path to the river & along the paved pathway at the top of the rivers bank till we reach the Power Boat Club House. We head around the clubhouse to the rock & brass monument beyond the building. We continue along the river to the mouth of Wianamatta / South Creek, before making our way down to the wharf beside the South Creek boat ramp. We then go up to the fence line that runs beside the turf farms and make our way back along this fence to where we started.
GUESTS: (in order of appearance)
Tom Hubble, Associate Professor of Geology, University of Sydney
Jasmine Seymour, Dharug artist, writer and educator
Michael Pattison, Land Management Officer, Hawkesbury City Council
Steve Austin, Waterskier and Hawkesbury local
Frank Laughton, Harold Hall, Chester Smith, and Athol Kemp Hawkesbury riverside farmers, from archival interviews recorded in 1992 by historian Sue Rosen, author of “Losing Ground: An environmental history of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment”
Richie Benson, Senior Field Officer, National Parks and Wildlife Service
Jan Barkley-Jack, Historian and author of "Hawkesbury Settlement Revealed”
Grace Karskens, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of NSW and author of “People of the River"
Dr Ian Wright, Associate Professor in Water Science, Western Sydney University with Water Management Students from WSU testing water at South Creek, April 2019
Scott Will, Hawkesbury local and owner of the South Creek Tannery Site
Lisa Sullivan, Hawkesbury local and owner of Flood impacted Heritage House in the Windsor area
ARTWORK:
Marri Badu Muru © Leanne Mulgo Watson 2022
MUSIC:
“11 Stories from the River Dyarubbin” © Oonagh Sherrard, with Dharug songs © Jasmine Seymour and © Stacy Jane Etal. Musicians: Dimitri Vouros, Gary Daley, Jess Ciampa,
Jasmine Seymour, Stacy Jane Etal, Oonagh Sherrard
ABOUT:
11 Stories From the River Dyarubbin is a collaborative public art work led by composer/ producer Oonagh Sherrard with Hawkesbury Regional Museum, Darug Custodian Aboriginal
Corporation, WSU Sustainable Futures and Hawkesbury Historical Society.
Created with support from the NSW Government through Create NSW, Museums & Galleries NSW and assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its Arts funding and advisory body.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
https://www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au/museum/historical-walks/11-stories-from-the-river-dyarubbin
WATCH EPISODE ON YOU TUBE:
https://youtu.be/J5HNx8y__pM