campus. Plans include an expanded curriculum of accredited courses across the creative industry, helping to increase the number of qualified artists and leaders. It will also provide training and retraining for people already in industry, and will include a program of "open courses, classes, concerts, performances, arts exchange forums, school programs, outreach and engagement opportunities for our regional, national and international communities". In film and television NAISDA was the subject of an ABC Television documentary, From Dreamtime to Dance, narrated by Stan Grant and broadcast in 2002. The school features in "NAISDA with Monica Stevens", an episode in the 2013 documentary television series Desperate Measures. Monica Stevens is a choreographer and was a student at NAISDA and a notable member of AIDT in the 1980s. The series is available on SBS on Demand. People Malcolm Cole (1949-1995), was an Aboriginal and South Sea Islander man from Far North Queensland, later a teacher and counsellor at the college. He is especially remembered for his participation in the 1988 Sydney Mardi Gras, in which he took the role of Captain Cook in an enactment of the First Fleet landing, in which a boatful of black sailors was pulled by a white man. This was the first ever Aboriginal float entry in the parade. Along with Lillian Crombie, he was the first co-presenter for the ABC Television's Blackout in 1989. He also taught dance as an artist in residence at many Australian schools. His legacy includes the Malcolm Cole Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Performing Arts Scholarship at the University of New South Wales; the Alexandria Public School weekly awards called "Malcolms"; and Malcolm Cole Terrace in the Canberra suburb of Whitlam. Staff Other teachers not mentioned above, among many others, included David Gulpilil and Larry Gurruwiwi. Prominent alumni Wayne Nicol and Dorathea Randall were the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander choreographers who graduated from NAISDA. Other notable alumni include: Christine Anu Lillian Crombie Gary Lang (of NT Dance Company) Stephen Page Russell Page See also National Black Theatre (Australia) References External links Guide to the Records of the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association, 1973-2009, National Library of Australia Dance education in Australia Education in New South Wales Indigenous Australian education Australian vocational education and training providers Organisations serving Indigenous Australians 1975 establishments in Australia