Stream Kyle Morrison's Keynote session at the 2024 Bell Shakespeare National Teacher Conference with the Teacher Membership.
Runtime: 63 mins
In this session actor and director Kyle Morrison will speak about the intersection of Shakespeare’s works with Noongar culture and language. Morrison, the former Artistic Director of Yirra Yaakin Theatre, has an extensive history working with Shakespeare including translating Shakespeare’s sonnets into Noongar language, presented at the World Shakespeare Festival in London at Shakespeare’s Globe.
The Noongar Sonnets project broke ground on the cultural collaboration between Noongar language and Shakespeare’s texts by creating six of Shakespeare’s sonnets fully adapted into Noongar worldview and philosophical paradigm through Noongar language. Morrison will also speak to engaging young people in cultural adaption projects by sharing about the Junior Sonneteers Program, which engaged 30 students (15 students of Noongar heritage and 15 of mixed and diverse heritage) from Perth.
Teachers will learn in this session how to meaningfully connect First Nations language, culture and storytelling to classic texts in the classroom, as well as new perspectives on the relevance of Shakespeare’s texts in conversation with First Nations culture and history.
