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Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir – Desert Song Festival

Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir (CAAWC) The NT is a robust crucible of living languages and vibrant cultures. This is the ‘cradle’ of the Desert Song Festival (DSF), which celebrates Aboriginal languages and culture through performances that foster pride, resilience and social cohesion amongst the Centralian community and audiences. The […]

Regina Pilawuk Wilson – A Journey to ‘Pinnipih’ Hill

Regina Pilawuk Wilson founded the community of Peppimenarti with her late husband Harold Wilson in 1973. This video shows Regina taking members of her family to a sacred and special rock art site called Pinnipih Hill, near where she was born in the outstation community of Wudigapildhiyerr, in the Daly […]

Numbulwar Numburindi Arts Centre

Established in 2019, Numbulwar’s first art centre – Numbulwar Numburindi Arts (NNA) – is one hundred percent owned and controlled by the community. Born from the community’s desire to practice and engage with traditional culture, NNA is a space for artistic and cultural expression whose mission is to keep culture […]

Yulki Nunggumajbarr – Numbulwar Numburindi Arts Centre

Senior weaver Yulki Nunggumajbarr shares her extraordinary life growing up in Wuyagiba, moving on to the missions and eventually becoming the first female Aboriginal priest in Australia. Numbulwar sits on the Rose River in the NT and belongs to the Nunggayinbala clan, one of the Wubuy or Nunggubuyu-speaking clans from […]

Janette Murrungun – Numbulwar Numburindi Arts

Janette is an Arts Worker at Numbulwar Numburindi Arts. She is an experienced weaver using ghost net and pandanus and an expert harvester. Janette holds deep knowledge around sourcing plants for string-making, natural dyeing and traditional weaving. Numbulwar sits on the Rose River in the NT and belongs to the […]

There Was A River – ‘stArts with D’

In There Was A River, the artists from the ‘stArts with D’ Performance Ensemble tell their story of a river flowing through the red hills. Written by Tiffany Malthouse, Devona Palmer and the ‘stArts with D’ Performance Ensemble, There Was A River is told in English, Arrernte and many Auslan […]

Ngapa – Southern Ngaliya Dancers

The Southern Ngaliya Dancers are from Yuendumu. This film about Ngapa Jukurrpa (water dreaming) was filmed during the performance of Unbroken Land 2018 at the Desert Park. The film also includes footage of Juka Juka, a water dreaming site on Warlpiri country. “We dance with white feathers in our armbands […]

Kwatye Waru – Connect2Culture

This Connect2Culture film shows the importance of water and fire in the desert and adds new dimensions to the already released self-titled episodes. Created by First Nations disabled artists Tiffany Malthouse and Lizzie Trew, in collaboration with Mentor Lauren Jones, the audience is invited to share the experience of how […]

Flood – ‘stArts with D’

‘stArts with D’ Performance Ensemble have created a series of short films, telling their stories about water. From the dramatic storms with thunder and lightning, water flowing from the sky and flooding the rivers, to that good feeling of the rain on your skin… Water everywhere! Incite Arts’ collaboration with ‘stArts […]

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