Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education

1998 NAIDOC launch and flag raising ceremony at Goolarri Media Broome. Speeches from Mark Bin Bakar, David Francis, Pat Dodson, Peter Yu and others, musical performances by Kerrianne Cox and Leah Purcell and Yawuru and Torres Strait Islandert raditional Dance performances. …

Mark Moora (dec) describes his early life growing up at Old Balgo Mission. Archival photos courtesy of the Sisters of St John of God.

Intimate opening for Carbiene McDonald Tjangala's sold out solo exhibition 'Petermann Ranges' at RAFT Artspace in Alice Springs/Mparntwe.

‘Kwatja Ngkama’ is the Western Arrernte translation for ‘Talking Water’. Talking Water is a new Australian Water Association/Water Services Association of Australia video series capturing and promoting Indigenous water knowledge from the past and present along with a …

The Yugul Mangi Rangers show us around Ngukurr and tell us some of the things visitors should know before they arrive.

Desart CEO Philip Watkins introduces the 2020 DesertMob Symposium program. Desart is the peak arts body for Central Australian Aboriginal Arts and Crafts centres and we have over 30 members.Our member art centres are community-based enterprises, owned and governed by …

The Tennant Creek Brio are currently exhibiting in Nirin 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Brio is an Italian word meaning courage, or liveliness of style or performance, which describes this collective. Drawing on multiple influences from various traditional and contemporary cultural …

Join us as we announce the winner of the annual Desart Photography Prize, part of Desart’s Art Worker Program that delivers opportunity for the development of technical skills and experimentation with new media.

Artists, Walter Jugadai, Jeffery Zimran, Kelly Dixon and Keturah Zimran and Art Centre Manager Dr. Chrischona Schmidt discuss the important work Ikuntji Artists have been engaged in with their Museum Project. The artists have been visiting national and international museum …

The western desert art movement began in the 1970’s in the Aboriginal community of Papunya, it is here where senior men painted murals on the school walls and the now famous Papunya Boards, this started a truly Australian Art Movement. The recently built men’s painting room …

Iltja Ntjarra Artists are currently showing in NIRIN – the 22nd Sydney Biennale with their exhibition Homeless on my Homeland. Artists Selma Coulthard, Vanessa Inkamala, Clara Inkamala and Mervyn Rubuntja discuss this powerful exhibition. ltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre is …

Marisa Maher is an emerging curator and assistant Manager of Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, based in Mparntwe Alice Springs and supports the “Hermannsburg School” style of watercolour artists who continue to paint in the tradition of their grandfather and relative, the …

Meet the senior ladies of Hermannsburg Potters. The Hermannsburg Potters are based in Western Aranda Country at Ntaria, they create vibrant handmade terracotta pots using hand coil and pinch technique These unique artworks encompass collective and individually lived histories of …

Jaylon gives some warning words you can use when talking to kids.

Jaylon describes how suffixes -Tidli -Tina are used in Kaurna language

Jack outlines some names for different transport modes and their origins in Kaurna language.

Jaylon provides some examples of how suffixes such as 'adli' and 'adlu' work in Kaurna language.

Jaylon Pila Newchurch tells us the Kaurna names for some ordinary items in the bathroom.

Arnold talks about seeing buffalo tracks this morning in Rembarrnga and Kriol!