Int Mother Language Day - 1

ICTV is excited to announce special programming this International Mother Language Day – the 21st of February 2019.
To celebrate the day, we will be screening a full day of programming in Indigenous languages.

Tune in Thursday the 21st of February for a whole day of language videos from remote Indigenous communities all over Australia.

ICTV, is proud to support International Mother Language Day and provide a platform for Indigenous languages all year round.

ICTV, showing our way.

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On the same day, ICTV is proud to launch inLanguage, from 1pm to 2pm at the Alice Springs Public Library

InLanguage is a new innovative website that aims to preserve and strengthen Indigenous languages in Australia by making it easier to find videos in the over 100 languages and language groups available on ICTV PLAY.

To try it out, head to ictv.com.au/languages.

Aunt Gloria Whalan began writing children's books to preserve her 'mother tongue' Wiradjuri language. Guulaangga, The Green Tree Frog, is a story that was inspired by Gloria's experiences growing up on a farm.

Taylor (Tipu) Power teaches us to count to 10 in Kaurna, with a little help from some starfish.

This video was created by Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/

Waringarri Radio 6WR is the number 1 radio station in the East Kimberley and is proud to be the only local community radio station in the area.

Their vision is to be the Aboriginal voice of the North East Kimberley.

More info at their website: www.waringarriradio.com.au

The team plays I spy !

Community cultural leader Matthew Priestley has been teaching students at Moree East Public School how to speak the traditional Gomeroi language. Here the students teach you how to count to ten in Gomeroi.

Kaurna kids and friends teach us the Heads, Shoulders , Knees & Toes song.This video was created by Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/

A story about the dangers of ganja.

It's night time in the tree but sleep doesn't come easily to all it's inhabitants.

This series was created by Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/

This short animation from Italk Library features two men talking in Yolngu Matha about how family violence affects kids.

Produced in Alice Springs in a collaboration between italk Library and the Department of Correctional Services.

Crocodile Safety video and information commissioned by the Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory

Sung at opening of Galiwinku Clinic on 25 May 2017

Water is Life is a documentary about the Aboriginal communities fighting against fracking plans in the NT. They learn from First Nations brothers and sisters in the US who are suffering the effects of greedy gas companies, and call on you to join their fight.

Emotional literacy animations in Pitjantjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra. Developed by and for Anangu living in the central desert region to keep language strong - in particular the language for talking about mental health.

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 traditional Walmanjari language and translated by Stella's daughter, Irene Jimbidie.

On the Black Chair is a video and web-based project which captures ten stories from community members both elders and young people. Community members were invited to sit in a 'black chair' that had been allocated for storytelling, and share a story of their choice. The community embraced this concept and the chair travelled around Balgo and Mulan to people's houses, out bush and in the Culture Centre.

Thylacine & Red Kangaroo (English)

This video shows Violet Wadrill Nanaku, Biddy Wavehill Yamawurr Nangala, Peggy Wavehill Mayawurr Nangala and Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal Nangari collecting bark and making kawurn (ashes) for flavouring tobacco.

It was produced by Felicity Meakins (University of Queensland).

For more information, contact Felicity Meakins (f.meakins@uq.edu.au) or Karungkarni Art (karungkarniart@gmail.com).

Lennie Goya-Airra from the Babbarra Women's Centre sharing a story.

Bábbarra Women’s Centre has a proud history of positive social impact.

From the early days, we have supported the lives of Aboriginal women in the community of Maningrida and on surrounding homelands.

Bábbarra Women’s Centre enables local women to develop and run women-centred enterprises that support healthy and sustainable livelihoods.

Bábbarra Designs is our main enterprise. We have a textile workshop specialising in the production of hand-printed fabric design, as well as a skilled sewing team. We are one of only a few Indigenous textile-producing art centres in Australia that design, print and sew product onsite, in community.

More info: www.babbarra.com

Wurtilla is Warumungu for bush bean. This slideshow explores the harvesting techniques and uses of bush beans. It also shares handsigns too.

Miyaka (bush peanut) grows in the Barkly region. This film shares knowledge and handsigns associated with this plant.

Bush tucker explained in Bardi.

Ngukurr Elders talk about the past, about going to church.

Under Thamarrurr, all land owning groups have traditional rights and responsibilities over their land. Some families ancestral homelands are hundreds of kilometres away and it can be difficult for them to pass knowledge on to the next generation. Having a dedicated space in the centre of Wadeye will give all clan groups sovereignty of their own unique cultures, a place to celebrate who they are and where they come from. It would strengthen connection to culture, increase pride and empowerment across generations while giving peace of mind to the old people.

This video has been locally produced by TDC's Media Mob (WadeyeTV) to raise awareness of the Thamarrurrr Peoples cultural needs

First Languages Australia short with Anne Gela speaking about the Kala Lagau Ya - Bigthap Krio llanguage.

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 languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

A new series from Barkly Regional Arts, 'My Art, My Culture' looks into the local visual artists of the Barkly region.

This video we look at Susannah 'Nakamarra' Nelson, who tells us the story behind her Women's Ceremony painting.

First Languages Australia short with Agnes Mark speaking about the Anguthimiri 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 languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

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

First Languages Australia short with Susan Kenedy speaking about the Anguthimiri 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 languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

Mowanjum Dancers: Jalalay Festival 2017. Culture is the compass. 19th 21 September 2017

First Languages Australia short with Bridget Priman speaking - Warrgamay.

This video is a part of teh First Languages Australia Gambay language map project. Available to view here: https://gambay.com.au

Elders from Pormpuraaw tell the story of the White Ibis Sorcerer. As well as re-enacting part of the story, they go in search of one of the sites in this important songline.

First Languages Australia short with Jennifer Creek speaking about the Kaantju 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 languages.

More info: www.firstlangauges.org.au

Susan Marawarr is a senior artist from the Kuninjku language group.

Bábbarra Women’s Centre has a proud history of positive social impact.

From the early days, we have supported the lives of Aboriginal women in the community of Maningrida and on surrounding homelands.

Bábbarra Women’s Centre enables local women to develop and run women-centred enterprises that support healthy and sustainable livelihoods.

Bábbarra Designs is our main enterprise. We have a textile workshop specialising in the production of hand-printed fabric design, as well as a skilled sewing team. We are one of only a few Indigenous textile-producing art centres in Australia that design, print and sew product onsite, in community.

More info: www.babbarra.com

First Languages Australia short with Karina Lester speaking Yankunytjatjara.

This beautiful series of shorts from First Languages Australia celebrate Indigenous languages, and the people who speak them, keep them alive and help others to learn more about Indigenous language.

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 that dries up during parts of the year. For the Walmajarri people of the Fitzroy Valley the word for permanent water is Jila. In this film we accompany artist and elder Amy Nugget as she takes her daughter and granddaughter on a journey to visit her ancestral Jila, Purluwala, a sacred site her and her family once lived at.

Abigail Carter teaches at the Maningrida Community School. Abigail produced this film about language work for her Young Champions presentation at Puliima National Indigenous Languages and Technology Conference 2015.

This beautiful series of shorts from First Languages Australia celebrate Indigenous languages, and the people who speak them, keep them alive and help others to learn more about Indigenous language.

The Lockhart River 'Kawadji Wimpa' Dancers performing live at the UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Indigenous Cultural Festival on 1 August, 2015 at Fo
UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Indigegarty Park, Cairns.

The Lockhart River 'Kawadji Wimpa' Dancers were the winners of the 2015 Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival Shield.
nous Cultural Festival is UMI Arts' annual signature event that showcases Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples with connection to Far North Queensland.

First Languages Australia short with Sonya Smith speaking Bunganditj.

This beautiful series of shorts from First Languages Australia celebrate Indigenous languages, and the people who speak them, keep them alive and help others to learn more about Indigenous language.

Good news stories from the Dhimurru Rangers from Yirrkala and the Yirralka Womens Rangers

Cornelia Tipuamantumirri uses the pwoja for her work, dipping the comb shaped carved ironwood into her ochre palette; shades of pinks and yellows to portray the reflections of her long life lived on the Tiwi Islands. Reflections also, of the skyes’ lights on the surface of the Arafura Sea.

A Traditional elder gives a tour on the Chuulangun Homelands (Cape York) looking for native plants, speaking in both English and language, he talks about Wyku (Belly ache tree).

This traditional song from Lindsay Gameraidj carries with it a strong message about eating local food/traditional food. \ The singing is compelling, Lindsay is also the lead singer of the Bininj Band.

Live Music Film clip from Keep Culture Festival 2013,Beagle Bay

Traditional preparation of Pantiral, The Paperback Native tree, used as a natural medicine to treat sores and wounds.

Corroborree Dances Boys and Elders

Dreaming story about why the Emu can't fly and why there is so much water in the local area. The illustrations are by the students at Dawu Remote Community School.

Ethel Walalgie tells us the story of the eagle amongst the Mueller Ranges.

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