Bruny Island launch: Dan Broun talks about how you can get involved
Bruny Island
Introduction by Dr Phill Pullinger, Kuno Director and CEO:
Bruny Island field guide is one of a number of pilot projects that we’re working on around the world. Bruny Island has been the first one. The next step is - we really want to open this up and invite you all to get involved. So I’m going to ask Dan Broun – who has been integral to that – to speak next.
Dan grew up in WA and he always loved the outdoors. He threw himself into a career as a video producer and photographer. He has worked across Australia in TV and as a photographer, but his love of wild places drew him to Tasmania, where he has bushwalked just about every corner of the state.
He has thrown himself into multiple different efforts to save Nature and after finishing up his work with the ABC, we are very fortunate that he has been working on this project for us for the last 18 months. He has been a joy to work with, an inspiration – and as you can see from his work – an amazing contributor to this project. Thank you Dan.
Dan Broun: Thanks Phill and hi everyone. As Phill mentioned, I spent most of my career working in film and TV in the media industry, and I came to Tasmania 18 years ago. This island grabbed my heart, obviously, but I’ve become incredibly involved with a lot of amazing and interesting and inspiring people who have worked to preserve this place in the last two decades.
A special shout-out to Phill, who has really kick-started this project and has done so many other inspiring things for Nature in Tasmania, in his life.
Mary Oliver is a beautiful poet and everyone who has not got her in their life, needs to. She wrote some very simple words that inspire me, and they are simply instructions for living a life. It’s to pay attention, be astonished and to tell about it. That to me is everything Kuno is.
It is to walk in the natural world and to pay careful attention to it. To be absolutely astonished, to learn about it, to understand it. To get to truly understand what makes the world the special place that it is. Of course Bruny Island has it all in spades.
The last part about it is to tell the story of Nature and the wonderment that it has. That’s where you can get involved with something like Kuno.
You don’t need to be a world-class cinematographer, you don’t need to be the writer of great novels or a wilderness photographer with amazing skills. But if you wander this place and have the inclination to share why you love it, you can get involved with something like Kuno.
Getting involved is to become a contributor. You sign up just like you do with all those other things online, but Kuno will give you so much more than that, because it will give you insight into all those wonderful people – people on this island like Tonya, like James and like Cat and Bob – all the people who do such wonderful work on Bruny Island.
Kuno will also open your mind up to wonderful people working all around the world. You can join them, by assisting them in their work and to tell the stories of your place.
It’s a pretty easy thing to get involved with. You just sign up and then you submit an article that we can dress up for you a little bit with some nice pictures. You can send us some photographs and we’ll assist you in the process of becoming a contributor.
We’re very much a start-up. So we’re very keen to continue this work and expand it all over the world, because that’s what’s required to save life on Earth. It is for all of us to look after our little patch and be contributing to the stories of those places.
We also have a number of projects we want to take on, to help people tell stories of place. The first real project that we’re going to work up is a photography course. We’re calling it the Life on Earth Photography Workshop and that will be lead by myself and the wonderful Marcio Conrado.
Marcio is there behind the camera. Apart from being a lovely guy, he’s a wonderful bird and wildlife photographer and film-maker, and the two of us are going to team up for an all-day workshop on Bruny Island, teaching people about photography and film-making of natural places and how you do that for conservation.
Anyone who may be interested in that, have a look at the course on the Kuno page – sign up, or let your friends who might be interested know about it. It’ll be a wonderful day and you’ll learn lots.
My big hope for Kuno is that more and more people get involved in the notion of telling the story of place in a way that imbues the respect of the people who love the place and know it best.
That’s why I think people on Bruny getting involved would be a really wonderful thing. Telling the story of Nature involves lots of people – it involves scientists, ecologists, authors, journalists and all manner of people.
We can also empower artists. The arts community is another cohort of people that can tell the story of Nature in a way that touches our souls – almost better than anyone else.
Thanks everyone for coming along. Sign up to Kuno – we’d love to see your names on our mailing list.
Dan Broun
Kuno Earth Media Centre Manager
Introduction by Dr Phill Pullinger, Kuno Director and CEO:
Bruny Island field guide is one of a number of pilot projects that we’re working on around the world. Bruny Island has been the first one. The next step is - we really want to open this up and invite you all to get involved. So I’m going to ask Dan Broun – who has been integral to that – to speak next.
Dan grew up in WA and he always loved the outdoors. He threw himself into a career as a video producer and photographer. He has worked across Australia in TV and as a photographer, but his love of wild places drew him to Tasmania, where he has bushwalked just about every corner of the state.
He has thrown himself into multiple different efforts to save Nature and after finishing up his work with the ABC, we are very fortunate that he has been working on this project for us for the last 18 months. He has been a joy to work with, an inspiration – and as you can see from his work – an amazing contributor to this project. Thank you Dan.
Dan Broun: Thanks Phill and hi everyone. As Phill mentioned, I spent most of my career working in film and TV in the media industry, and I came to Tasmania 18 years ago. This island grabbed my heart, obviously, but I’ve become incredibly involved with a lot of amazing and interesting and inspiring people who have worked to preserve this place in the last two decades.
A special shout-out to Phill, who has really kick-started this project and has done so many other inspiring things for Nature in Tasmania, in his life.
Mary Oliver is a beautiful poet and everyone who has not got her in their life, needs to. She wrote some very simple words that inspire me, and they are simply instructions for living a life. It’s to pay attention, be astonished and to tell about it. That to me is everything Kuno is.
It is to walk in the natural world and to pay careful attention to it. To be absolutely astonished, to learn about it, to understand it. To get to truly understand what makes the world the special place that it is. Of course Bruny Island has it all in spades.
The last part about it is to tell the story of Nature and the wonderment that it has. That’s where you can get involved with something like Kuno.
You don’t need to be a world-class cinematographer, you don’t need to be the writer of great novels or a wilderness photographer with amazing skills. But if you wander this place and have the inclination to share why you love it, you can get involved with something like Kuno.
Getting involved is to become a contributor. You sign up just like you do with all those other things online, but Kuno will give you so much more than that, because it will give you insight into all those wonderful people – people on this island like Tonya, like James and like Cat and Bob – all the people who do such wonderful work on Bruny Island.
Kuno will also open your mind up to wonderful people working all around the world. You can join them, by assisting them in their work and to tell the stories of your place.
It’s a pretty easy thing to get involved with. You just sign up and then you submit an article that we can dress up for you a little bit with some nice pictures. You can send us some photographs and we’ll assist you in the process of becoming a contributor.
We’re very much a start-up. So we’re very keen to continue this work and expand it all over the world, because that’s what’s required to save life on Earth. It is for all of us to look after our little patch and be contributing to the stories of those places.
We also have a number of projects we want to take on, to help people tell stories of place. The first real project that we’re going to work up is a photography course. We’re calling it the Life on Earth Photography Workshop and that will be lead by myself and the wonderful Marcio Conrado.
Marcio is there behind the camera. Apart from being a lovely guy, he’s a wonderful bird and wildlife photographer and film-maker, and the two of us are going to team up for an all-day workshop on Bruny Island, teaching people about photography and film-making of natural places and how you do that for conservation.
Anyone who may be interested in that, have a look at the course on the Kuno page – sign up, or let your friends who might be interested know about it. It’ll be a wonderful day and you’ll learn lots.
My big hope for Kuno is that more and more people get involved in the notion of telling the story of place in a way that imbues the respect of the people who love the place and know it best.
That’s why I think people on Bruny getting involved would be a really wonderful thing. Telling the story of Nature involves lots of people – it involves scientists, ecologists, authors, journalists and all manner of people.
We can also empower artists. The arts community is another cohort of people that can tell the story of Nature in a way that touches our souls – almost better than anyone else.
Thanks everyone for coming along. Sign up to Kuno – we’d love to see your names on our mailing list.
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