24 Living Sanctuary
Channel: Living Data
Date: 2021-01-26

Living Sanctuary
"...palm trees collected in little atolls in Melanesia... since they were collected and planted in here, those atolls have been completely wiped out, like completely deforested and cut down, and the only plants that you find of the sort are found in here."     
Wiradjuri man Darren Charwood has a double degree in Archaeology and Visual Arts from the University of Sydney. He studied Cultural Arts with the artist Chico Monks at Eora TAFE NSW. Now working in Education at Sydney Botanical Gardens, Darren is also an artist represented by Boomalli Aboriginal Artist's Cooperative. Darren's passion is to pass on knowledge from his experience in traditional Aboriginal culture and Western science. Today Darren shares stories for LunarTime, the Living Data Living Library. Living Data publishes videos under a Non-commercial Share-Alike Copyright License. This mean you can freely use these videos in your learning and teaching so long as you acknowledge the story-tellers and co-creators of these productions.