Deep time connections with Dr Cass Lynch
Deep time connections: Language, Lore and the Trapdoor Spider
How can language, story and ecology reconnect us to place?
In Deep Time Connections: Language, Lore, and the Trapdoor Spider, Dr Cass Lynch will reflect on collaboration, habitat protection and the role of language in caring for landscapes. During the lecture, Cass will share her experience of rescuing 40 trapdoor spiders from construction in the Porongurup Range National Park.
To complement the lecture, the walls of UDLA’s Walyalup studio will showcase drawings of insects endemic to Western Australia. Submit a drawing by 24 March for your chance to win a copy of Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now, featuring a story by Cass Lynch. More information here.
About the event:
Wednesday November 5, 2025 UDLA's Walyalup Studio
(Level 2 Atwell Building, 3 Cantonment Street, Fremantle, WA, 6160)
Doors open 5.30pm
Lecture begins 6pm
Pizza, drinks and chats until 8.30pm
Free event. RSVP essential. Let us know if you’re joining by 20 March at this link.
About the speaker:
Dr Cass Lynch
Cass Lynch is a Koreng Wudjari Noongar woman, and is descended from the families of Ravensthorpe in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. She is a writer and Research Fellow, and has a PhD in Creative Writing that explores Noongar stories that reference climate change. She is a committee member of Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories, an Aboriginal corporation who focus on the revitalisation of culture and language connected to south coast Noongar people. She is the co-founder of Aboriginal literature project Woylie Project, which facilitates bringing Noongar stories into print and training community members to be presenters. She has published short stories, essays, and poems, and her multimedia storytelling works have been featured at Perth Festival, Fremantle Biennale, PICA, Arts House Melbourne, CCA Glasgow, and more. Her Noongar language haikus, published in Westerly 64.1, won the 2019 Patricia Hackett Prize. Her short story ‘Split’, a creative impression of deep time Perth, is a key text for high school students studying VCE English in Victoria and can be found in the UQP publication Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now.
About the host:
UDLA is a multidisciplinary design practice with studios in Walyalup and Naarm. With combined expertise in design, strategy and engagement, we delivery landscape-led projects that are grounded in real places and people. Whatever the project, we respond to each site's context with cultural inclusivity and respect.
