Tuba-rai metin: Veronica Pereira, Antonio Maia and Albertina Viegas

Abstract

11 September 1997, Special Lecture. -- Tuba-rai metin is a collaborative public art project which memorialises those who have died in recent history of East Timor. Veronica Pereira Maia and Antonio Maia are senior members of Darwin's East Timorese community, highly accomplished in a spectrum of traditional Timorese crafts and intimately versed in their ceremonies and culture. With Albertina Viegas, they will talk about the project and show a short film of Tuba-rai metin. Tuba-rai metin is in the grounds of the Canberra School of Art, 10 - 14 September.