Tasma Walton in Conversation

Proud Boonwurrung woman and award-winning actor, Tasma Walton discusses her new novel, 'l am Nannertgarrook', which is based on her true story. She will be in conversation with Belinda Duarte, CEO of Culture is Life.

From her idyllic life in sea country in Nerrm (Port Phillip Bay, Victoria), Nannertgarrook is abducted and taken to a slave market, leaving behind a husband, daughter and son. Pregnant when seized, she soon gives birth to another son, whom she raises with the children of her fellow captives.

Nannertgarrook is separated not only from her Boonwurrung family, but from her birthright – the ceremonies she once was so joyously part of, the majestic whales who are her totem, the land and sky and sea country and its creatures. All these things she loves as deeply as she does her blood kin.