Grandma Smith Music Festival 2020
Visual Identity, 2020.
The Grandma Smith Music Festival is a fictional festival that gathers all local Aboriginal talents from musical, artistic, historical and cultural backgrounds to celebrate and garner publicity for the revival campaign of their culture in Tasmania.
The festival also invites non-Aboriginals audience to share and educate them about the Palawa Kani community as part of Tasmanian identity. Spanned across 2 days in Springtime Australia, the festival features evening music concerts, art exhibitions and cultural experiences.
This project hopes to increase acceptance for the Palawa Kani community and culture from political state powers by contributing as an annual attraction in Tasmania, along with other indigenous events such as the Putalina (Oyster Cove) Festival in Summer. The Palawa Kani Project is one of the largest language revival project in the world.
Paying homage to the last true blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal singer Fanny Cochrane Smith, this music festival celebrates the indigenous music and cultural history of the Palawa Kani, the community of present-day Tasmanian Aboriginals. Fanny Smith was well known for her efforts in preserving her Aboriginal culture, and for recording the first and only copy of her native music back in 1903 with Horace Watson.
