April 21st, 2025Author Barry Golding set to share stories at Yandoit Cultural

Coming up Saturday, April 26, Kingston resident and author, Barry Golding, will share stories about his compelling journey in southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country through the reference points of six iconic mountains in central Victoria.

The local academic and author will be speaking at Yandoit Cultural, the former historic church building, in an afternoon session that promises to share a wealth of local history knowledge going back deep in time.

The featured mountains are today called Mt Kooroocheang [near Smeaton], Mt Beckworth [near Clunes], Mt Greenock [near Talbot], Mt Tarrengower [near Maldon], Mt Alexander [near Castlemaine] and Mt Franklin [near Daylesford].

Six Peaks Speak is an interdisciplinary and intercultural story across time, cultures, contested histories and unsettled relationships, uniquely traversing First Nations and unsettler, history, geology, ecology, anthropology and reserve management.

Barry will focus on some of the lesser known legacies in his book associated with Lalkambuk /Mt Franklin, with reference also to Gurutjanga /Mt Kooroocheang  and Liyanganuk / Mt Alexander’ .

Rodney Carter, Dja Dja Wurrung Chief Executive Officer, says of the book: ‘The deep and painstaking research undertaken to bring this book together is significant and impressive. The narrative style, interweaving history of the locations with geology make this book unique, quite beautiful and accessible to a broader audience. It involves a discussion about deeply unsettling legacies, highly relevant today in Australia. It is indeed powerful and disquieting at the same time.’

When : Saturday April 26th, at 4pm

Where: at Yandoit Cultural- the old church in the bush, Uniting Church Rd, off High St, Yandoit

Cost:  Suggested donation- $10.00/8.00.

Bookings: https://yandoitcultural.org/bookings/