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TROPIC • SPECIAL FEATURE

Cultural
transformation

Multi-disciplinary artist Zane Saunders
is presenting a captivating theatrical
performance, Cure, as part of CIAF’s suite
of events. The body of work, which was
originally created in 2020, had to pivot at
the last minute to adapt to CIAF’s digital
program. This year will mark the first
time the Butchulla and Goongari artist
performs the work to a live audience,
exactly as it was intended.

I see myself providing
audiences with a profound
experience to help shift
something within them

Zane Saunders
Butchulla & Goongari
Artist & Performer

Cure challenges the ideals of corporative
industrial agriculture and organised
religion, versus First Nations culture and
spiritual practices. It is a vivid, evoking
orchestration of artistic movement,
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which Saunders has spent over a decade
Snapshot of success writing the manuscript for.
You can watch the performance for free
In the previous 12 years, more than 320,000 people at CPAC, Friday 8 and Saturday 9 July,
have participated in or have attended CIAF – showcasing 2.30-3.30pm.
more than 1500 QLD Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
artists and accounting for almost $8 million dollars’ worth
of Queensland Indigenous art sales.

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