Walmajarri

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

As part of the Theatre Kimberley Outreach program, the Big Country Puppets artistic team visited Yakanarra Community for one month, a small remote community in the Fitzroy River Valley. Lead theatre artist Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman and theatre artist Eduardo Maher worked with …

In Part 1 of this series Elders, artists and staff from three Aboriginal community controlled art centres share their perspectives on why art centres play such a vital role for them and their communities, and keep older artists strong.

This story invites the audience to listen to Elders, artists and staff from three Aboriginal community controlled art centres as they share the vital role they play in keeping their Elders strong and connected. Elders are the backbone of these centres and play a critical role in …

In Part 2 of this series we hear how art centres play a role in keeping older artists and Elders connected to their communities and Country, and communities connected to each other. Artists share how central Elders are to keeping culture alive and strong, and how art centres …

Part 3 of this series invites the audience to understand what art centres need to keep playing their vital roles in their communities. Elders, artists and staff of three Aboriginal community controlled art centres share the importance of recognising and resourcing the art centres …

On 21-27 May, 2017, the Pilbara & Kimberley Aboriginal Media (PAKAM) team, Clint Dixon, Quinton Milner, Ronald Mosquito and Magali McDuffie, were privileged to cover the Walkali Return to Country Trip. Seven hours from Balgo in the Central Tanami Desert, they travelled with …

The mighty Noonkanbah Blues of 2017. Established in the early 1990s, this football club was formed for the tribal groups that live in Noonkanbah.

Noonkanbah River - Ending of flood season, early spring 2017. Noonkanbah River is a part of the mighty Fitzroy river that stretches well over 500 kilometres.

Mulan Dancers: Jalalay Festival 2017. Culture is the compass. 19th 21 Septemberr 2017

First Languages Australia short with Ainsley O'Connor speaking about the Walmajarri language. First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first …

Wandoo Wahpup is a collaborative work between Edwin Lee Mulligan, an award winning up and coming artist, visionary poet and performer, and Clint Dixon, a documentary film maker working as cameraman and editor for Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media Association in the north of …

In the desert, water is mostly found below ground. Any surface water quickly dries up in the heat, but underground water remains available in waterholes and rockholes. Aboriginal people of the inland differentiate between permanent water, called living water, and seasonal water …

Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight) performs her Song of Lament at the launch of Heroes & Laments at the Ellington Jazz club in Perth, April 2015.

Desert Feet were commissioned to produce a 30sec advert encouraging children to stay in school. The concept, production and star of the video is Kankawa Nagarra, a respected Walmatjarri elder from the community of Wankatkjunka in the Kimberley (WA) This was produced as …

Olive Knights latest album release Heroes & Laments.

The community of Yakanarra visit places of significance around the area and hear stories from Elder Stella Jimbidie including places of camping, where old people lived, a place where a massacre occured, a favourite local waterhole and a sacred story about brolgas. Told in …

Josephine Forrest talks about her culture & language, Walmajarri, and her experience with the sheep stations in the local area.