Eva Knowles Johnson was born on 1946 and is an Aboriginal Australian poet, actor, director, and playwright.
10 Facts About Eva Johnson
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Eva Johnson is known for directing the first Aboriginal Women's Arts Festival in Adelaide in 1985, for which she wrote the play Tjindarella.
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Eva Knowles Johnson was born in 1946 at Daly River in the Northern Territory.
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Eva Johnson belongs to the Malak Malak people, an Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.
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At the age of two, Johnson was taken from her mother and placed on a Methodist Mission on Croker Island, Northern Territory.
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Eva Johnson gained an associate diploma in community development at the South Australian Institute of Technology and studied for a degree in Aboriginal studies at the University of Adelaide.
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Eva Johnson has worked as an enrolled nurse, poet, actor, director, playwright, and teacher.
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In February to March 1985 Eva Johnson directed the first Aboriginal Women's Arts Festival in Adelaide, at which Tjindarella was performed from 1 to 16 February 1985.
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Eva Johnson contributed to the representation of Aboriginal women on the stage.
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In 1985 Eva Johnson was awarded the Aboriginal Artist of the Year Award.