Yarning with Ken Canning

Sit around the table with Ken and tell, record, write, or listen to, Indigenous stories.

Burraga Gutya – Ken Canning - is a Murri writer and poet, originally from Queensland. He has lived and worked in New South Wales for almost 30 years. He has a long history of political struggle and activism. His fight for equal rights for Indigenous Peoples led him to education in the 1980s. He is now one of the founding members of Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney and is currently employed there doing what he regards as his passion, working with Indigenous students at a tertiary level. Ken's poetry has been translated into several languages and he's now writing his first major play, ’49 Days a Week’ and a half hour film script titled ‘Cocky on a Biscuit Tin’.

Ken has a BA in Communications and an almost completed MA in Oral History.