This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
IMPORTANT: Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Wear closed-in shoes and clothes to get glue on. Participants are asked to abide by all relevant social distancing measures. Hand sanitizer will be provided.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS Join us to be part of a creative collaborative journey culminating in a large-scale puppetry performance for the Meeka Moorart Full Moon Celebration to open the Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together Social Impact Festival on August 3, 2020. Across July, professional puppetry artist Karen Hethey will work with Danjoo Koorliny Elders and leaders to offer a professional development opportunity for emerging artists alongside open community workshops.
The open community workshops are a space for Elders, family and community to connect and participate in the creative process which involves making djinda (star) lanterns and building puppets that will be part of the final performance on August 3. Join us on August 3 to sing the Meeka Moorart Full Moon song and be part of the puppet performance at Gurndandulup (Matilda Bay Foreshore).
TEAM/PEOPLE The current team for Ni! Bilyada Waanginy includes: Dr Noel Nannup OAM, Farley Garlett, Narelle Thorne, Sharon Wood-Kenney, Paige Wood-Kenney, Kobi Morrison, Karen Hethey, Zoe Street and Zal Kanga-Parabia. The project is also supported by the other Danjoo Koorliny Elders and leaders, Dr Richard Walley OAM, Professor Emeritus Colleen Hayward AM and Carol Innes, as well as the extended Danjoo Koorliny leadership team, and co-produced by Propel Youth Arts WA.
ABOUT DANJOO KOORLINY Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together is a large-scale, long-term, systems-change project designed and led by Aboriginal leaders to help us all walk together towards 2029 (200 years of colonisation in Perth), and beyond.
The leaders of Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together are Dr Noel Nannup OAM, Dr Richard Walley OAM, Professor Emeritus Colleen Hayward AM and Carol Innes. Last year they hosted - with support from the Centre for Social Impact at UWA - the inaugural Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together Social Impact Festival.
ABOUT NI! BILYADA WAANGINY Ni! Bilyada Waanginy - Listen! The Rivers are Speaking project begins in 2020 and, like the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, will move through Whadjuk boodja /country, including Perth’s urban landscape, to reveal and share stories from the waters and this land through culture, ecology, art and performance as we walk together towards 2029 (200 years of colonisation in Perth), and beyond. At the heart of the project is the understanding that Noongar people are the custodians and guardians of boodja. Their stories, embedded in this land and gathered over tens of thousands of years, hold deep ecological understanding and wisdom that gives knowledge and guidance for looking after and caring for all living things in our unique landscapes we call home. Learning and creating through song, dance, visual arts and puppetry, each year the Ni! Bilyada Waanginy project will culminate in a community performance for the Meeka Moorart Full Moon Celebration as part of the Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together Social Impact Festival. (This year will be a smaller-scale performance because of the COVID-affected lead-up.)
The foundation of the project rests on six Noongar principles of responsibility for caring for everything: Wirin - the spirit, the life force that is in everything Boodja - the land/country Koort - the heart Moort - family and community Koolunga - the children and the legacy we leave them Kaartdijin - knowledge
