Jan
Wositzky
My Story: A View in the Rear Vision Mirror
AWARDS:
Human
Rights &Equal Oportunities Media Award
For 1994 May Day Magazine (TLC Darwin)
Editor & principal writer.
(Produced by Green Ant.)
Best Documentary
& Best Aust. Production
1991 A.T.O.M. Awards for "Buwarrala
Akarriya-Journey East." Scriptwriter,
sound recordist.
RECORDINGS:
Albums
- The Bushwackers Band
The Shearers Dream / ...and the Band Played
Waltzing Matilda / Murrumbidgee / Bushfire
The Bushwackers Dance Album /Faces in the
Street
1984-5
The Fruitcake of Australian Stories
A cabaret of storytelling and music from
black and white Australia. Live recording.
Co-producer, storyteller, musician, arranger.
(See shows & books)
1991
Elvis Would Be Proud
Musician in residence project with 24 year
4, 5, 6 children.
Wrote & produced 8 song cassette for
Brunswick Records.
1995
Born Under The Paperbark Tree
Double cassette for ABC Enterprises. Stories,
songs & music with Yidumduma Bill Harney.
Producer, sound recording, editor.
1998
Into A Secret Land
Solo CD of songs & stories, recorded
live. Producer, writer, performer.
BOOKS:
1996
In The Footsteps Of Our Ancestors
Co-editor. (For Yanyuwa community at Borroloola.)
The book of the documentary, Buwarrala Akarriya
- Journey East'. My role as writer was to
assist people in the telling of their story,
to pass on skills, and to be supervising
editor for the work.
1996
Born Under The Paperbark Tree
Researcher, writer. (ABC Books & Mandarin
- sales: 6,000)
An oral history life story of Yidumduma
Bill Harney, Wardman (NT) elder, songman
and storyteller.
1986
Tommy Woodcock
Interviewer, writer. (Pub: Greenhouse -
sales: 25,000)
An oral history biography of Phar Lap's
strapper & trainer.
1983
A Fruitcake Of Australian Stories
Co-editor. (Pub. Greenhouse - sales: 12,000)
Eclectic compilation of stories & poems.
(See Stage & CD's)
1979
The Bushwackers Dance Book
Co-writer. (Pub. Greenhouse - sales: 15,000)
A dance instruction manual for traditional
Celtic-Australian dances, with accompanying
cassette.
1978
The Bushwackers Song Book (with Dobe Newton)
Co-editor, graphics researcher (Pub. Anne
O'Donovan Pty Ltd - sales: 40,000) A song
book popularising Australian bush music.
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Contact....
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Jan 'YARN' Wositzky & Lee Fox
03 54706629
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yarn@storytellersguide.com.au
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