Antinuclear

Adelaide Fringe Festival Event
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
Thursday February 14, 2013
Light Gallery, 138 Richmond Road, Marleston, 5033
Artist Talk 5pm, Exhibition Opening 6-8pm

A photo exhibition profiling the Northern Territory community and country targeted for a federal nuclear waste dump is opening next Thursday evening February 14 at the Light Gallery in Marleston.

http://lightgallery.ccp.sa.edu.au/?event-items=fringe-2013-manuwangku-under-the-nuclear-cloud-by-jagath-dheerasekara

Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud is a series of photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara and presents a unique window into the daily lives of the affected community as well presenting the area under threat.

Manuwangku, also known as Muckaty, is 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek in the NT and has been the focus of federal government pressure as a site to dump radioactive waste for over five years. The federal plan is deeply unpopular and is being actively opposed by the community and supporters across the country.
The Muckaty campaign acknowledges and hopes to build on ten years of organising in South Australia, led by the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, that stopped a waste dump being foisted there.

Muckaty Traditional Owners Isobel Phillips and Doris Kelly will travel to attend the opening and speak about the community campaign opposing the waste dump.

Natalie Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative is coordinating the exhibition’s national tour and will also speak at the event.  There will also be an artist’s talk by Jagath Dheerasekara prior to the exhibition opening.