Public meeting: Conversation with Indigenous elder and actor, Uncle Jack Charles.

Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 18:00

Uncle Jack Charles is an Aboriginal elder who pioneered Koorie theatre. In the early 1970s, he founded the first Aboriginal theatre company in Australia, Nindethana, and was a television regular and the star of movies including The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Jack is an actor, musician, and potter, but in his nearly 70 years he has also been homeless, an addict, a thief and a regular in Victoria's prisons. A member of the Stolen Generation, Jack has spent his life in between acting gigs caught in the addiction/crime/doing time cycle.

And he lives to tell the extraordinary tale.

Carlton Conversations @ The Clare. $25/$15 (includes dinner & conversation).