Tiwi

Tiwi College students created a song focusing on connection to culture and community in Tiwi. The program was co-facilitated by Tiwi and non-Tiwi school staff and Red Dust team members. The final song is a mix of both English and Tiwi. Enjoy!

Keep the Fire Burning - Wurrumiyanga

Red Dust traveled out to Croker Island in October 2023 to run some T-Shirt printing workshops with the kids from Mamaruni School. The students had been working with Nathan Fejo at the school in collaboration with Tim Lane from Bush Creative to create some local designs for the …

Red Dust and Mamanta piloted a new Healthy Living Program education module on Tiwi Country, to raise awareness of rheumatic heart disease. We asked the kids, ‘what do you need for a healthy heart?’ and here are their responses. Read more about the experience: …

Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform the "Kab Kar", a traditional dance from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They wear the "dhari" headdress made …

Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances from Mer (Murray Island) in the eastern Torres Strait Islands, at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. They are accompanied by drumming and singing.

Three boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform the "Maumatang" war dance from Boigu Island, in the Top Western Torres Strait Islands, just south of Papua New Guinea; at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010.

Boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns in north Queensland, Australia, perform traditional dances from Saibai Island, in the Top Western Torres Strait, just south of Papua New Guinea; at the Townsville Cultural Fest in 2010. In the "Silent Dance" only …

Torres Strait islander students, boys from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia, perform the "Maumatang" warrior dance from Boigu Island (just south of Papua New Guinea), during the Townsville Cultural Fest.

Torres Strait islander students, boys and girls from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia, perform a dance from Mabuiag Island in the central Torres Strait, during the Townsville Cultural Fest.

Torres Strait islander students, boys and girls from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, during the Townsville Cultural Fest. This is a mixed group of boys and girls from different islands. The dance is from Boigu Island, in the far north of …

Torres Strait islander students, boys and girls from Djarragun College, an indigenous school near Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia, perform a dance from Badu Island, in the Central Western Torres Strait, during the Townsville Cultural Fest. The song is called "Gumi …

In alignment with The International Decade for Indigenous Languages 2022-2032, this song and lyrics have been made by the students of Tiwi College with support from Francis Kapijiyi Orsto, Red Dust Role Models and Mamanta. Many efforts have been made to use correct Tiwi …

Paparluwi Parlingarri - Our Ancestors

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Traditional dances from Galiwin'ku or Elcho Island, an Aboriginal community off the north coast of Arnhem Land, performed at the yearly cultural festival in Barunga, Northern Territory, Australia

The traditional Míddjarn ceremonial dance of the Ndjébbana people is carried out by men and boys in the school grounds at Maningrida Aboriginal community in the north of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a serious ceremony, but also fun for the children …

The Tiwi Aboriginal people of Bathurst Island remember the bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 with a corroboree. They apply their face paint and chant the events in Tiwi; the men dance, their arms outstretched, representing the planes; the women sit and depict looking through …