MEME MCDONALD Writer/Director – Visual Resume 1979 - 2011

1979 – 1986 Meme performing in Essendon Policewomen’s Marching Band street theatre group. Meme was founding member of West Theatre Company in 1979 - western suburbs Melbourne - and Artistic Director for eight years.

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1986 - Meme on Australia Council Study Grant performing original show with Raun Raun Community Education tour – Papua New Guinea Highlands.

1989 - Meme directing community members in THE SEAGRASS STORY – Hastings, Victoria (photo Ponch Hawkes)

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1990 - Image designed and created by Meme for THE SEAGRASS STORY – Hastings – directing and performing with over 60 participants from the community. (photo Ponch Hawkes)

1992 - Meme writer and photographer PUT YOUR WHOLE SELF IN with Northcote Hydrotherapy Group published by Penguin Books Australia – winner of NSW Premier’s Literary Award for non-fiction and Braille & Talking Book Award. (photo Meme McDonald)

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1990 -1993 WADERBIRDS international arts science tour following the northern migration of the Eastern Curlew from Aotearoa New Zealand, across Australia and to Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan. Meme - Artistic Director.

1996 – present – Meme writer and photographer collaborating with Boori Monty Pryor on multi award winning books and films with Kunggandji and Birri-gubba family and community from Far North Queensland (cover photos Meme McDonald)

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2007 – Meme’s adult novel LOVE LIKE WATER published by Allen & Unwin

2007 - Arts team perform dawn ritual - CONNECTING IDENTITIES City of Greater Geelong – Meme Artistic Director (photo Bindi Cole 2007)

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2009 CONNECTING IDENTITIES – MOUTH TO MOUNTAIN – art installations at Barwon Heads - dawn start to the 54 kilometre arts journey across the City of Greater Geelong. Meme – Artistic Director - over 600 participants and 1,200 audience (photo Bindi Cole)

2009 MOUTH TO MOUNTAIN – Wathaurong Aboriginal Dancers perform as Spirit Birds at Big Rock,You Yangs, completing the 54k dawn to dusk arts journey across Geelong. Meme - Artistic Director

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2010 – Meme writer/director of WARRIMA - Shake a Leg Dance – short film with Youthworx Productions crew of ‘at risk’ youth, cinematographer Ian Jones, and Mayi Wunba Dance Group Kuranda North Queensland (photo Boori Monty Pryor)

2011 – INTO THE LIGHT exhibition and community performance – Wurundjeri elder Ian Hunter and Mayor of City of Whittlesea lead audience on walk through the Whittlesea Cattle Shed exhibition – Meme Artistic Director and installation artist. (photo Naomi Herzog)