Lest we forget - all who died on country
Making Peas/ce after the COLONIAL ERA CONFLICTS
Movement for the Commemoration of the Australian Colonial Era Conflicts
The anthem of the pea
The Poppy and the Desert Pea join voices in the heart of the nation
The Inaugural National Peas/ce Project is inviting you to help form a giant desert pea on country to film from the air as we remember those who died on country and we need your help to make this happen. As part of the Peas/ce Project we will be filming The Anthem of the Desert Pea song by Hazel Davies of Making Peas/ce. We will be also
The Inaugural National Peas/ce Project is inviting you to help form a giant desert pea on country to film from the air as we remember those who died on country and we need your help to make this happen. As part of the Peas/ce Project we will be filming The Anthem of the Desert Pea song by Hazel Davies of Making Peas/ce. We will be also be forming a pop-up choir. Register for FREE above to receive the link to your guide tracks, lyric sheet closer to the performance date.
This will be held in conjunction with the Inaugural Discovery Parks Desert Pea Festival
in Alice Springs so there will be stalls, food, pea making workshops and more. All Welcome!
Making Peasce is connecting with the OZY Youth Choir
ANZAC Day recognition of the colonial era conflcits
Thanks to the Tasmanian Governor
Thanks to the Tasmanian Governor
Thanks to the Tasmanian Governor
After the State ANZAC service in Hobart Elders gather with the Governor Kate Warner (centre) to say thank you for the historic recognition of the Colonial Era Conflicts with a wreath laid alongside the Indigenous Soldiers' wreath during the ceremony.
Colonial Era Conflicts Wreath
Thanks to the Tasmanian Governor
Thanks to the Tasmanian Governor
Close up of the wreath
laid during the Hobart ANZAC Ceremony
25 April 2021
more at #reconciliationtasmania
We will remember them
- all who died on their country
during the Colonial Era Conflicts.
Memorial Flower
Thanks to the Tasmanian Governor
Central Australian Elder honours Tasmanian Elders' ANZAC Day wreath in Canberra
The Walking Warrior
was identified by Tasmanian Elders
as the flower for the
perpetual memorial of Frist Nations'
people who died
during the Colonial Era Conflicts.
It has seven Celtic knots in the centre representing the generations affected.
Central Australian Elder honours Tasmanian Elders' ANZAC Day wreath in Canberra
Central Australian Elder honours Tasmanian Elders' ANZAC Day wreath in Canberra
Central Australian Elder honours Tasmanian Elders' ANZAC Day wreath in Canberra
Peltherre Agnillinga Agkmoura Chris Tomlins,
an Arrernte Elder, honours the Tasmanian Elders' wreath at the National War Memorial in Canberra on ANZAC Day 2021.
It was laid immediately after the Ceremony.
When will the AWM include the Colonial Era Conflicts military deaths during the service?
Tasmanian Elders' Overseas Wars' Wreath
Central Australian Elder honours Tasmanian Elders' ANZAC Day wreath in Canberra
Tasmanian Elders' Overseas Wars' Wreath
During the Hobart ANZAC State ceremony
Elders laid this wreath for all the Indigenous service personal who died defending Australia and their Tasmania.
Lest we forget those who died
for their country
and on their country.
Making Peas/ce Acknowledges First Peoples
We acknowledge the First Peoples as custodians of the lands and islands now known as Australia where we live as guests.
We pay our respects to the elders past, present and emerging who own the rich heritage and culture from whom we have so much to learn as we share in a journey of healing and restitution following the tradgedies of the Frontier Wars and intergenerational effects.
PEAS/CE GROWS FROM THE GROUND UP
Welcome to the Making Peas/ce movement that started with the recognition of the Desert Pea blood flower being a symbol of memorial for the First Peoples who died through invasion and the effects of colonisation of what is now called Australia.
There are strong similarities 10,000 years later to the Flanders Poppy and European Wars where blood has been spilt and a flower grows to symbolise new life, healing and hope while remembering the fallen.
Their blood cries out from the ground.
More recently known by the explorer and invader's name, "Sturts Desert Pea" this flower has song lines going back tens of thousands of years that belong to the First Peoples of where it grows across the arid interior of the continent.
Our mission
Making Peasce Movement for the recognition and commemoration of the Colonial Era Conflicts, wars and
- To create an interactive contemplative space where stories of grief and hope can be shared and good mourning can be had.
- To facilitate the rise of the Desert Pea talisman in respectful partnership with custodians through story, poetry, song and crafts.
- To carry the Desert Pea into public space so it may stand equally alongside its ‘white’ cousin the Flanders Poppy, telling the whole story as carried in the hands of the flower bearer, wherever it may be laid across the land.
- For the full and rightful memorial of aboriginal massacre as part of our shared history.
- To live together by our national cradle/ creedal oath “Lest We Forget”
- To embrace the truth in order to heal from the ground up, from country up.
- To provide an international example of truth lived, through brokenness and healing together on a road named forgiveness.
“The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the flower” …Mahatma Ghandi.
about making peas/ce
Hazel Davies
Floral activist Hazel Davies is of British heritage and was born on Dhurrawall land near the site of the first Aboriginal massacres of the colonising period.
With 40 years’ experience as a professional floral designer, poet, writer and teacher, Hazel has co-ordinated the professional floristry teaching program at Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) for 15 years.
Hazel specializes in wreath making and commemorative liturgies, using flowers as symbols in private rituals and public ceremonies. In 2008 she went on to study the symbolism and sacramentality of flowers like the Flanders Poppy in Australian society through a Bachelor of Theology at Charles Sturt University.
In 2014 in partnership with traditional owners, Hazel founded the Making Peasce Movement, to raise the history and profile of the Sturt's Desert Pea as a commemorative flower for the Frontier Wars and massacres.
In 2015 Hazel wrote the iconic poem entitled 'The Poppies and the Peas’ which has been listed in the world catalogue of resistance poetry.
Hazel currently lectures in flora recognition at CIT, while growing the Making Peasce Movement alongside traditional owners.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visitors please be aware that images and sounds of people who have passed away are included.