| NAME: | Peter Leslie Keelan |
| POSTAL ADDRESS: | PO Box 884 Denmark Western Australia Australia 6333 |
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Within Australia: 08 9840 9674 International: 61 8 984 09674 Mobile: 042 779 8438 |
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| WEBSITE: | www.peterkeelan.com.au |
| DATE OF BIRTH: | 16th February 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia |
| NATIONALITY: | Australian |
| 2010 | Administered and produced Cecile Williams' Perth International Arts Festival exhibition |
| 2009 | Produced and managed seven week tour to Australia by the Narasirato Pan Pipers, including Byron Bluesfest, Melbourne Recital Centre, Brisbane Powerhouse and Port Fairy Festival |
| 2008 | Managed the $252,000 budget, wrote the contracts and organized the logistics for the Big Five O Project, Christmas Island |
| 2007 | Produced and managed tours to Malaysia and Bahrain by the Narasirato Pan Pipers (Solomon Islands) |
| 2007 | Produced and managed an eight week tour of Australia by the Narasirato Pan Pipers |
| 2006 | Creating the Strategic and Operational Plan for producing the inaugural National and World Festival of Pan Pipe in the Solomon Islands. This has included high level government meetings and gaining international funding support. |
| 2006 | PUTart Project, with Kimberley Wildlife Rescue, Kununurra. |
| 2004 | General Manager of Kununurra Youth Services, working with Indigenous youth 'at risk'. Managing five employees and an annual budget of three hundred thousand dollars (one year contract). |
| 2010 | Denmark Festival of Voice and closing concert. |
| 2008 | Directed the Denmark Festival of Voice, a festival featuring many aspects of the human voice... beatbox, choirs, acapella, workshops and more. |
| 2008 | Directed an original piece of theatre, Kapow, with Southern Edge Arts, Albany. |
| 2008 | Musical director of The Big Five O, in collaboration with community musicians and groups from Christmas Island, together with professional artists from Malaysia and Australian mainland. |
| 2006 | Six months volunteering as Festival Director, researching and developing a plan towards producing the inaugural World Festival of Pan Pipe. This included two self funded trips to the Solomon Islands. |
| 2005 | Research towards the World Festival of Pan Pipe in the Solomon Islands |
| 2003 | Fremantle Street Arts Festival, for the City of Fremantle |
| 2000 | Co-Artistic Director Kalamunda Zig Zag Festival Closing Event involving 400 performers |
| 1998 | Soundscape Meditation Concert 2, Festival Fremantle. |
| 1997 | Megadrums 2 for Festival of Fremantle
Soundscape Meditation Concert, Festival Fremantle |
| 1996 | Meggadrums Camp, conceptualised and administrated to fruition |
| 1995 | Deep Sea Gossip, original music/theatre by Tok Pan Tok for Festival Fremantle |
| 2008 | Directed The Big Five O, an eight week project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Australia taking over sovereignty of Christmas Island. |
| 2005 | High Spirits community theatre project, Christmas Island. Recording Chinese and Malay musicians, 'junk' musical instruments from local rubbish tip, remixing and creating the soundtrack for theatre performance, together with live music. |
| 2003 | Awarded an Australia Council for the Arts two year Fellowship - a collaborative music making project, living for three months in each of Bolivia, Romania, Malawi and the Solomon Islands, to compose, record and produce original works alongside and in collaboration with local musicians in each of those countries. |
| 1999 | Vlam 1 Multi Arts Outdoor project in Cape Town, South Africa, with a band including 100 piece African choir, 65 piece percussion and brass band and twelve core musicians. The project was a cultural exchange between SWAPCO Australia and the Jazzart Dance Theatre of South Africa. |
| 1998 | Kalamunda Zig Zag Festival, with a 50 piece choir, indigenous didgeridoo player, folk musicians, and youth musicians for the Ran Dan Club community performance
Festival Fremantle - Opening Concert at Bathers Beach, Fremantle |
| 1997 | Kulcha - nine piece world music band - Hillarys Fire Event
Bizircus Big Band - for a production of Cyber Circus |
| 1996 | MACWA Festival of Fire, forming a large multicultural band
Busselton Beach Festival - ritual event with the Ran Dan Club |
| 1995 | 2 Dance Plus - in collaboration with contemporary dancers to compose and record four solo dance pieces, relating to the destruction of urban coastal lakes
Coco Youth Theatre Company - with the three town circus project. Medium, Rare, or Well Drummed - community band performance with Denmark Arts Council. |
| 1994 | Barking Gecko Theatre Company - co-musical director of Voyage of Poppykettle |
| 1992 | Steps Youth Dance Theatre - for production Steppin Out, Mayman Theatre |
| 1991 | Pan pipe orchestra performance at Fremantle Town Hall, for Festival Fremantle |
| 1999 | Kalamunda Zig Zag Festival - to hold workshops and interviews with the committee as well within the community, and to write a three year festival plan
Jane Whiteley's From Within: to compose and record a piece to accompany her solo textiles show |
| 1998 | Public Sound Sculpture: Percent for Art commission for Clarkson Senior High School, in collaboration with visual artist Cecile Williams |
| 2000 | Woodford Festival, Queensland - performances with Tok Pan Tok |
| 1998 | Singapore Festival of Arts - street theatre program with Whak |
| 1997 | Melbourne Festival of Arts - Festival opening performance and street theatre with Whak
Darwin Fringe Festival/Kimberleys Tour with Whak |
| 1996 | Canadian Tour with group Whak performing at folk music and street theatre festivals for three months, acting as administrator and performer |
| 1995 | East Kimberleys Regional tour of Western Australia with Tok Pan Tok |
| 1990 | Bougainvillea Festival in Darwin with AC-PVC |
| 1989 | PCAP Tours by AC-PVC to the Albany, Murchison and Merredin districts |
| 2010 | Roebourne, Western Australia aboriginal community teaching film making
Wickham, Western Australia, teaching film making and sound recording AIR Project working as a sound artist in schools in Denmark, Albany, Mount Barker and Cranbrook, culminating at Nowanup Camp, Western Australia Western Desert Kidney Project workshops in Menzies and Norseman, teaching film making, sound recording and drumming. |
| 2008 | Recycled music and musical instruments, as part of the RESURRECT Project, Albany, Western Australia in collaboration with Cecile Williams and local artists to produce an exhibition of sculptural musical instruments. |
| 2006 | PUTART project (Places Under Threat) as community musician in collaboration with visual artists Lorraine Biggs from Tasmania and Cecile Williams from Western Australia, together with the local community to question and expose the extent of the cane toad invasion into Western Australia, using music, sound and environmental art.
Southern Edge Arts - working with 'at risk' Noongyar youth to make musical instruments, learn to play them and finally perform as Hysterikool Mob at the opening of the Albany Indigenous Medical Centre |
| 2005 | Christmas Island project working as a musician, recording engineer, producer and community musician to engage the local community members, including the Chinese and Malay communities, to become involved in the project. |
| 1999 | Mt. Lawley Rotary Club, working with youth to build a kinetic sculpture
Kalgoorlie Primary School music workshops Perth Modern School - helping immigrant students in a confidence building program |
| 1998 | Kununurra Youth Services, sculptural instrument making, music playing workshops in Kalumbaru and Wyndham
Clarkson Community High School, working with two groups of non-music students to compose and record semi-improvised pieces of music on unusual instruments Fairbridge Festival - schools workshops for junk marching band Karratha Walkington Theatre - holiday music workshops Geraldton Sea Jazz Festival, making sculptural musical instruments from recycled materials, holding workshops at a youth drop-in centre, with older Aboriginal men and schoolchildren Broome Fringe Festival - forming a marching percussion orchestra Coco Youth Theatre - musical director/composer/instrument maker |
| 1997 | Walkington Theatre, Karratha - musical workshops
Kununurra High School - musical workshops W.A. Week - workshops with migrant children |
| 1996 | MAWA - musician and administrator of multicultural big band
Stories of the Mangrove, with Whak and the Ran Dan Club, Broome Fringe Festival Brave New Works a festival of contemporary theatre works, Denmark Arts Council |
| 1995 | East Kimberley Youth Services - instrument making and playing workshops with Aboriginal students at a youth camp in Warmun
Christmas Island with Ran Dan Club giving school and public workshops |
| 1994 | Priority Education Country Areas Program tour of the Kimberlies giving performances and workshops in world music with Tok Pan Tok
Mandurah Shire - Healthways workshop in visual arts, circus and music WA Water Authority - PVC instruments making workshop and display Fairbridge Festival - workshops in Pinjarra schools and performances |
| 1993 | Claremont School of Art - devising, constructing and exhibiting sculptural musical instruments in collaboration with students
Sambanistas Street Percussion - weekly workshops throughout the year. WA Week Council - workshops with migrant children Inner City Mission - instrument making and playing at their drop-in meals centre Karnivale - music workshops leading to a parade Little Feet Festival - pan pipe making workshops Department of Employment and Training - children's multicultural instrument making |
| 2007 | Tok Pan Tok at Fairbridge Festival and Brave New Works Festival, in collaboration with the Narasirato Pan Pipers from the Solomon Islands. |
| 2007 | 2007 Tok Pan Tok concert at Wolery House Concert |
| 2006 | Solo performance including self edited video, dvd, stories and music at Kulcha, Fremantle |
Co-founded AC-PVC whose performances included:
Over two hundred performances and workshops as a musician with Chilli Con Cussion, Los Chasquis, the Sambanistas Trio De Janeiro, AC-PVC, Tok Pan Tok and Whak from 1987 to the present for the corporate sector, the general public, in schools and at festivals.
| 2010 | CONTAINED exhibition by Cecile Williams as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. |
| 2009 | Narasirato Pan Pipers seven week Australian tour, including Byron Bluesfest, Melbourne Recital Centre, Brisbane Powerhouse and Port Fairy Festival. |
| 2009 | Recording of Narasirato Pan Pipers' second CD on Malaita Island and in David Bridie Studio, Melbourne. |
| 2007 | 2007 Narasirato Pan Pipers tours to Australia, Malaysia and Bahrain |
| 2006 | Record, edit, mix and produce Narasirato Pan Pipers, from the Solomon Islands, first CD release titled Naratana Hiona (Cry of the Ancestors) |
| 2007 | Delegate to the Australian World Music Expo, Melbourne (self funded) |
| 2006 | Delegate to WOMEX international world music trade fair and conference in Seville, Spain
Workshops with film and documentary producer Jan Aird in Cairns, Queensland (self funded) Lessons in video editing and dvd authoring to produce World Festival of Pan Pipe and Narasirato promotional packages. (The dvd/cd package for WFPP was sponsored by Mark Whitehouse at Pro Copy in Perth) |
| 2005 | Delegate to the annual Indigenous Tourism Conference (WAITOC) in Perth, Western Australia (self funded) |
| 2000-2003 | Two year fellowship awarded by the Australia Council for the Arts, to collaborate with musicians in Bolivia, Romania, Malawi and the Solomon Islands |
| 1999 | Asianlink exchange program to Hanoi Conservatory of Music, Vietnam, for three months |
| 1998 | ArtsWA development grant for Whak, with an electronics engineer, internet specialist, theatre director and video artist |
| 1992 | Western Australian Department for the Arts grant for pan-flute studies with renowned teacher Cornel Pana in Bucharest, Romania for five months |
| 1990 | Sidney Myer Foundation support for AC/PVC to refine and experiment further with its orchestra of original PVC instruments |
| 2005 | DVD Studio Pro, professional dvd authoring software |
| 2004 | Final Cut Pro, professional film editing software |
| 2004 | Requalification of Senior First Aid certificate with St Johns Ambulance |
| 1999 | Requalification of Senior First Aid certificate with St Johns Ambulance
Requalification of Bronze Medallion with Royal Life Saving Society |
| 1997 | Indoor pyrotechnics course |
| 1996 | Drumming and percussion workshops with Ray Pereira in Adelaide, and with Utungun Percussion and Keith Casey at the Maleny Music Festival |
| 1995 | Cultural research in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Tanzania |
| 1993 | School of Audio Engineering Level 1 audio engineer |
| 1991 | Music and dance research in the Solomon Islands |
| 1989 | Cuban National School of Folklore to study Afro-Cuban percussion |
| 1986 | Spanish Language at Flinders University, Adelaide
Pan-flute studies at the Kjarkas School of Folklore in Cochabamba, Bolivia Instrument making apprenticeship (pan-flute, flute, drums) to master instrument maker Juan Vera - La Paz, Bolivia |
| Life Is Life | Original recordings of the resultant collaborations with musicians in Bolivia, Romania and Malawi/Mozambique in 2003 |
| Eyes of a Child | Tok Pan Tok 2001 ( CD of original world music) |
| Woven Path | 1999 (piece to accompany textile artist's work) |
| My Place To Be | 1999 (collaboration with sculptor's public art installation) |
| Wurld | Wurld 1997 (nine piece original world music band) |
| Darwin ABC Radio | Whak 1990 (live to air) |
| Just A Slice | Whak 1997 (original percussive music) |
| 3 Hours In Canada | Whak 1996 (original world/folk music) |
| Ma Fren | Tok Pan Tok 1993 ( CD of original world music) |
| Perth ABC Radio | Bizircus Big Band 1990 (live to air) |
| 2 Dance Plus | 1992 (soundtrack to three contemporary dance solos) |
| Perth ABC Radio | Tok Pan Tok 1990 (live to air) |
| Sebastian and the Sparrow | 1990 (solo recording of a partial film soundtrack) |
| Skin On Skin | Marthas Vineyard 1989 (one song of a rock album) |
| Perth ABC Radio | AC/PVC 1990 (live to air) |
| Underground Phenomenon | AC/PVC 1989 (original PVC music) |
| Santiago To Perth | Los Chasquis 1989 (South American music) |
| 2011 | Mapoon Land and Sea Rangers (Cape York) - Documentary commissioned by the Rangers (9 mins)
Moondog J and Narasirato Pan Pipers short film of their performance of The Are'Are Blues at Byron Bluesfest (5 mins). | |
| 2010 | Five Elements Tour - Documentary commissioned by Tura New Music of a tour by virtuoso Indian classical musicians and dancers, in collaboration with three of Australia's great jazz musicians, from Darwin to Perth (6 mins)
Repaired Log - Documentary of artist Cecile Williams' commission to build an ephemeral environmental artwork at the Northcliffe Sculpture Walk (5 mins) Denmark Festival of Voice - Documentary of the processes and people involved in the festival. | |
| 2009 | Documentary about the collaborative process, rehearsals and recording of The Pan People Project, in Malawi, Bolivia, Solomon Islands and Romania premiered at the Dreaming Festival in Queensland 2009 (92 mins)
Mane Paina (The Paramount Chief) filmed at the Melbourne Recital Centre performance of the Narasirato Pan Pipers, mixed with scenes from their remote village lifestyles on Malaita Island, Solomon Islands CONTAINED - Documentary and booklet of artist Cecile Williams' process to make artworks from the flotsam and jetsam of Greta Beach, Christmas Island |
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| 2008 | Documentation dvd of the process and performance for The Big Five O Project in Christmas Island (45 mins)
Kapow Theatre Project - documentary commissioned by Southern Edge Arts of the performance of Kapow. |
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| 2007 | Documentary of the Narasirato Pan Pipers' tour of Australia (54 mins) |
| 2011 | Kanga Jump - clandestine and quick film made about three young boys and their bmx jumping pursuits
Bustin A Move - Elijah Peppin and Amos Smith attend hip hop dance workshops. |
| 2010 | Sofa So Good - Dwayne Peppin creates an amphibious bike, from rubbish, for Brave New Works Festival and bravely launches it in front of a parochial home crowd
Dochomentary - a paper ball fight the night before leads into more silliness at the Denmark markets, carrying on a long history of raids on Anthony Docherty's woodwork artworks stall Gondwana Rap - a quick film made with students from Denmark Primary School, composed, recorded, filmed in four hours |
| 1994 | SBS Sunday Arts - on Peter Keelan as a new instrument maker |
| 1990 | ABC 7.30 Report - on AC/PVC |
| 1989 | Channel 7 News - on AC/PVC
Current Affairs - on Channel 9 about AC/PVC |
| 1988 | Channel 10 Kids Company - a series presenting new musical instruments |
| 1987 | SBS Worldwide - a program on AC/PVC |
| 2007 | Producer of Narasirato Pan Pipers CD launch in Honiara and Oterama Village, Solomon Islands. |
| 2005 | Creating the Strategic and Operational Plan for producing the inaugural National and World Festival of Pan Pipe in the Solomon Islands. This has included high level government meetings and sourcing international funding support. Organise fundraising events to help musicians in drought ridden Malawi, Africa Mentor and support indigenous musician Peter Brandy, by organizing concerts, writing grant applications, etc. Support person with Narasirato Pan Pipers at Queensland Music Festival. |