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A group of Noonkanbah girls go looking for bush tucker but one of them eats a poisoned fruit even though the others warn her. Soon, she turns into Animal Girl -- an al-foil crazed white haired girl with bulging eyes, razor sharp teeth and super-long fingernails! The others must hit her over the head and knock the spirit out of her!

Our first official music video, first of all we would like to thank Ardyaloon Community, Brenton Meynell and The Way Studios for recording the audio, Telly Pearson for playing the girl, Meranda Lands for filming her, Alieka Dixon for editing, Raymond Angus, PAKAM and the talented Rohanna Angus you mob are too deadly.

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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).

Lorraine Peeters shares her story

The lyrics for this revised anthem were written by Judith Durham, Kutcha Edwards, Lou Bennett, Camilla Chance and Bill Hauritz. In this video clip it is performed by Kutcha Edwards during the KAGE Team of Life theatre production. For more information about this revised anthem, see: www.dulwichcentre.com.au/anthem

A cultural film about the tradition of grinding seeds for food.

This is the first part to a comprehensive account of the experiences of a community of Aboriginal People from pre-colonial times to the 1990s.

Original live ABC footage of Stompem Ground 1992 digitised and re-edited by Russell Dann in 2022.

Music video of "Saltwater Cowboy' by the Pigram Brothers. (Taken from longer file: PK0A113)

A reverse role play performed at the Language and the Law Conference. Supreme Court of the Northern Territory - Darwin Part 1

'Take Me Home' was created as part of the 2012 'Song Nation' Project - a partnership between Desert Pea Media and The Smugglers Of Light Foundation. Part of an ongoing Desert Pea Media project at the school (this is the third song from The Gowrie Boys).

The 'tagai' is a term from the Torres Strait and north Australian coast that describes particular star constellation, which helps local people navigate their way home.

Every island or area has their own 'tagai'. This song follows the tagai as a metaphor for destiny, for 'your path'.

What next for the people of Ali Curung and their fight against the Singleton Station water licence? (English)

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Little Wave Rock is a gathering place that harbours the history and secrets of Gamilaraay ancestors. Gamilaraay woman Loren Ryan discusses her connection to Country and the importance of paying respects at this sacred place.

First Languages Australia short with Michael Jarrett speaking Gumbaynggirr.

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

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Desert Pea Media is very proud to announce a new collaboration with the Yaegl community in Maclean/Yamba, in the Lower Clarence Valley of the North Coast of NSW.

This production was created over 7 days in December 2019 - an outcome of of a unique, collaborative creative process with Desert Pea Media artists, local Original Nations young people, community members, Elders, High School staff and local services.

The overall purpose of the project was to facilitate an important, inter-generational conversation about social and emotional well-being for Original Nations young people in 8 communities around the North Coast. The project is called 'Break It Down - Community Conversations Around Well-being' - funded by North Coast Primary Health Network.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyse 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities :)

The connections created during this project with the community and local young people are friendships that the DPM team highly value and respect. We as a team feel deeply honored to learn, share and create with the Yaegl community. These projects not only uplift and inspire audiences and community members, but everybody involved.

'Being, On Country' was directed and shot by filmmaker Mitch O'Hearn and edited by Roy Weiland. We thank you both for your artistic vision and awesome work.

Special thanks to Uncle Ron Heron and Shane Eamons, staff at Maclean High School and all of the Yaegl Elders and community members for having us on country, and making us feel so welcome.

In this soulful Hip Hop remake of an Australian classic Mau Power uses the first verse to pay homage to the Torres Strait Islands while the second verse is an ode to Australia, the great Island Home.

Shot on location in The Torres Strait Islands, the video was directed by Rush & Executive Produced by Mike Justice for Meridian Nights & One Blood Hidden Image PTY LTD.

Mau Power would like to thank Neil Murray, The Warmupi Band & Christine Anu for allowing him to continue this songline. Island Home’ contains vocal elements from My Island Home performed by Christine Anu. Used courtesy of Warner Music Australia PTY LTD under license.

A Kuarna Language short-short course from Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.

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

Live from studio Angurugu you are about to witness the Eylandt Band play "Dingala"

Hilda Nambula from Wilora makes music sticks/clapsticks and talks about the tools she uses.

This video was made as part of Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi's Culture Program.

Visit waltja.org.au to learn more

You can buy slapsticks like the ones in the video from Waltja's Arts Social Enterprise www.waltja.org.au/shop

'Feel the Fire' is the third Music Video in the 'Identity Matters' series produced with Indigenous students from Catholic Education across Queensland. The song was written in collaboration with students from Emmaus College and The Cathedral College in Rockhampton.The students expressed their desire for me and other non-indigenous people to share in their history, embrace their culture and feel what they feel....and I certainly felt it. I was deeply moved by the pride and connection that the students felt for their culture. Its a privalige to have worked with all the amazing young indigenous people in Toowoomba, Cairns, Rockhampton, Ipswich and Brisbane. Thanks for sharing your lives, opening your hearts and most importantly making me feel a part of the mob!!

More videos from Small Town Culture here: www.youtube.com/user/SmallTownCulture/videos

Desert Pea Media is very proud to announce a new collaboration with the Githabul community in Muli Muli & Woodenbong, in the Upper Clarence Valley on the North Coast of NSW.

This production, along with a music video 'Githabul: Next Generation - Home' was created over 14 days in August 2019 - an outcome of of a unique, collaborative creative process with Desert Pea Media artists, local Original Nations young people, community members, Elders, High School staff and local services.

The overall purpose of the project was to facilitate an important, inter-generational conversation about social and emotional well-being for Original Nations young people in 8 communities around the North Coast. The project is called 'Break It Down - Community Conversations Around Well-being' - funded by North Coast Primary Health Network.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyse 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities :)

The connections created during this project with the community and local young people are friendships that the DPM team highly value and respect. We as a team feel deeply honored to learn, share and create with the Woodenbong/Muli Muli community. These projects not only uplift and inspire audiences and community members, but everybody involved.

'Mulli' was Directed, shot and edited by DPM filmmaker Genevieve Kaiser. We thank you sis for your artistic vision and awesome work.

Special thanks to Salome Green, Jennifer Williams, Tornelle Boney, Susan Boney and staff at Woodenbong School for all of your incredible support over the years, and the Elders and community from Muli Muli for having us on country.

Tjulpu and Walpa is the story of two young Anangu girls - one who has a difficult path growing up, while the other has a happy upbringing. Originally developed in the format of a book, the story of Tjulpu and Walpa has now been adapted to an animated film.

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Tiyana teaches us how to say thank you in Kaurna!

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

Band Night Wingellina 2017 Filmed by NG Media at the 19th Remote Indigenous Media Festival.

Crew: Jennifer Connelly, Marcia Mitchell, Cynthia Burke, Jasmin Lawson, Alan Nash, Rongomai Bailey, Fiona, Ryan Khay, Mark Finlay & Matthew Lewis

Pertame Story: Kwernga Nwerna Nhanha Nema (Because of her, we are here)
Christobel Swan narrates a story of Pertame children learning about the 2018 NAIDOC theme, "because of her, we can". In this video, Pertame children do drawings to acknowledge the important women in their lives, and how these women look after them.

This wonderful video features the voice of a very talented young man named Aaron Fraser, from Kenmore Park APY Lands, South Australia. The musicians are the Pukatja Street Reggae Band from Ernabella.. David Morris / guitar, Ben Thompson / bass, Nelson Peters / drums, Nathaniel Kulyuru / keyboards. Lois and Hazel Fraser are also singing on the language choruses.
The song and video are the result of a joint program between The Melbourne University Indigenous Eye Health Unit and Uncle Jimmy Thumbs Up! with school children and community members living in the APY lands of South Australia. The song was written and recorded by UJTU facilitators Johanna Campbell, Kahl Wallis and Buzz Bidstrup, recorded and mixed by Buzz and Max Bidstrup and the video was shot and edited by Amy Lee Shields.

Traditional Dance Performances held in Broome as part of Stompem Ground 1998.
Yawuru, Karajarri, Torres Strait Islander, Bardi, Kija, Mirriwoong and other dance groups.
Digitised from SP Betacam tape and remastered in 2020.

INFRACTIONS connects stories of Queensland 'unconventional' gas approvals on Gooreng Gooreng country to global shale gas plans potentially affecting 50% of the Northern Territory. The film was made following the lifting of the moratorium on fracking in NT. It features Dimakarri ‘Ray’ Dixon (Mudburra), Jack Green (Garawa, Gudanji), Gadrian Hoosan (Garrwa, Yanyuwa), Robert O’Keefe (Wambaya), Juliri Ingra and Neola Savage (Gooreng Gooreng), Que Kenny (Western Arrarnta), Cassie Williams (Western Arrarnta), the Sandridge Band, and Professor Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk Bunganditj) who was involved in drafting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The non-Indigenous director Rachel O'Reilly works in Meanjin (Brisbane) and Berlin and grew up on Gooreng Gooreng country in Yallarm/Gladstone. Commissioned by KW Berlin, Germany.

It’s 1963 in the Australian outback and master tracker Billy Benn is being chased by the police for the murder of his wife’s lover. Can Benn escape and find solace in the outback or will the police led by fellow tracker Teddy Egan catch up to him?

Some twenty years later the police are in full force again running through the forest but this time they are not chasing a criminal, instead it is a race against time. A 6-year-old girl has been lost and stranded deep in the forest already for nine days and her survival, if possible, will depend on how quickly authorities can locate her. Once again the police will rely on the keen sense of a tracker for success. Where others see only a forest, Musgrave spots clues and signs as he reads the environment like a map.

Similarly the police have relied on the trackers’ mysterious abilities to break up a drug ring, rescue a stranded photographer in the desert, and find a young cowboy who disappeared during a stampede.

Trackers have been around for centuries and when the police realized that it would be interesting to put them to use in tracking escaped and missing persons, Australia was still a British penal colony. But in this age of GPS, 4×4 vehicles and helicopters, are we letting go of something more fundamental – an intuitive knowledge linking man to nature?

Featured in this film will be some of the last great trackers of the outback, including George Musgrave, Teddy Egan Jangala, Tommy George, and Mitjili Gibson. We will bring their most dramatic stories to life by recreating their gripping adventures deep in the unknown corners of the Australian Outback, traversing lush rainforests and wild rivers, magnificent gorges and deep water holes, dry savannahs, and red deserts in search of the soon-to-be lost Aboriginal art of the tracker.

In this video, Jay shares his journey with substance use. Jay discusses how crystal methamphetamine impacted his life including his job, friendships and relationship. Jay opens up about the importance of honesty and social connection in recovery.

This is one from a series of three videos that explore the impact of crystal methamphetamine through creative interpretations of testimonies. The three lived experience stories are told from the perspective of someone with experience using crystal methamphetamine, a mother of someone who uses crystal methamphetamine, and a health worker who works with people who use crystal methamphetamine. These videos aim to provide a voice to people with lived experience of crystal methamphetamine use, overcome stigma and harmful stereotypes, and provide hope for people with lived experience.

For more information and support, visit cracksintheice.org.au/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-peoples

A traditional dance festival held in Ernabella, filmed in 1987, back in the early days of PY Media. This one-hour video was condensed from 15 hours of footage, and only contains excerpts of each inma.

A music video for the song "Lil Lady," by Trevor Ishiguchi

In a remote part of Australia live some rare and threatened animals. One such animal is the shy bilby. Once common across Australian deserts, the bilby is now endangered. It’s last stronghold in the wild is in Martu country. Martu people are the traditional owners for this bilby country.
Martu rangers working with Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa look after country using Martu ways and whitefella ways. They protect endangered animals like the bilby. Introduced animals like feral cats, foxes and rabbits threaten the bilbies.
Large hot wildfires also destroy their food and cover from predators. Martu rangers put a remote sensor camera outside of a bilby burrow to capture some of the life of a bilby.

In 2012-2013 a group of Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaanyatjarra language speakers from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in Western Australia recorded traditional verbal arts and sand stories.

Even in Australian Indigenous communities where traditional spoken languages are still relatively strong, these special forms of communication are highly endangered.

This is one of four films from the Western Desert Verbal Arts Project funded by:
ELDP (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme) Small Grant SG0187.
Australian Research Council – DE120100720
Australian Research Council – DP110102767


The films were produced by team members Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Inge Kral (ANU) and Jennifer Green (University of Melbourne).

Yolŋu songman Daniel Wilfred performs all over the world with his voice and biḻma(clapping sticks). Last year, he travelled with his uncle David Wilfred from the top to the bottom of Australia to share his manikay (ceremonial song) with students and to collaborate with the Australian Art Orchestra. Featuring footage from his performance at the Arts Centre Melbourne, Djuwaḻpada is Daniel’s story – about the strength of culture and the power of collaboration.

In Yolngu culture dance plays a pivotal role. There’s ceremonial dance, celebratory dance and then there’s Marryuna; to dance with no shame, to freestyle for the sheer elation of dancing.

Marryuna is the second highly anticipated single from Arnhem Land’s ascending hip hop star Baker Boy.

Directed by Daniel King, shot on location in Melbourne, VIC.

‘Film clip made with thanks to the generous support of Vocus Group Limited’

Bush Bands Bash 2018:

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

‘The Eagle, the Crow and the Bat’ is a rich cultural story shared by the Jaara Community about Jaara totems and teachings, and how the Jaara Country came to be. A rich cultural story about Jaara totems, the book explores why the Eagle is the Lord of the Highlands, how the Crow discovered fire and protects the lowlands and how the Bat is seen as the peacekeeper. SharingStories Foundation collaborated with the Jaara community transferring skills that support cultural continuity and the interpretation of ancient stories using new arts media. Senior Custodians, young people and community members have joined together with SharingStories Foundation to produce and share this unique insight into Jaara Country, culture and story.

Key contributors:
Uncle Rick Nelson
Jaara Community
St Peters Primary school
SharingStories Foundation

It’s not OK if someone shares – or says they will share – a nude or sexual image or video of you, without your consent. This is known as image-based abuse or revenge porn.

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Yirara News - YCTV Ep6 Term 1 2025

In this week’s YiraraTV, STARS shine at the Y, we run around campus while learning and visit AISTSIS in town.

Presenters: - Joshua Nelson – Yuendumu, Kkozik Noonan - Tennant Creek, Stevie Riley⁣and - Ali Curung.

YiraraTV, So Good!

A free concert held on the banks of the Todd River at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station to launch Jacinta Price's debut album Dry River.

NG Lands Football: Irrunytju vs Mantamaru - July 8th, 2018.

Mantamaru Magpies 78

Defeated

Irrunytju Warriors 44

2018 AFL

Captured by the NG Media Outside Broadcast Crew

One day, right before her 14th birthday, Joy Wandin Murphy woke up with a bad feeling. She refused to go to school. She had an unshakeable sense of dread that something was going to happen to her father. Joy was eventually permitted to stay home, and her father passed away that same day.

It was a turning point for Joy. In that moment, she knew with absolute clarity that they had lost a great man and that to honour him, she had to give back somehow to her community. ‘From there it was indelibly printed that I had to do something, but at that point, I wasn’t sure exactly, what’, she recalls.

Joy Wandin Murphy is a Wurundjeri elder and Woiwurrung language teacher, based in Healesville, 60km east of Melbourne. Joy's great-great uncle was William Barak, the last traditional ngurungaeta (elder/leader) of the Wurundjeri-willam clan. Joy’s father, Jarlo Wandoon, attempted to enlist for World War 1 but was rejected on account of being Aboriginal. He proceeded to re-enlist under a whitefella name, James Wandin, and went on to serve overseas.

It’s with this same tenacity that Aunty Joy has applied herself to her work. She is committed to promoting positive relationships between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous community, and to strengthening the Woiwurrung language. Joy frequently gives the traditional ‘Welcome to country’ greeting at Melbourne events and was invited to be the creative artist and lyricist for the Opening and Closing ceremony songs in the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Among other accolades, Joy was made an officer of the Order of Australia in 2006, for her service to the community, particularly the Aborigines, through ‘significant contributions in the fields of social justice, land rights, equal opportunity, art and reconciliation’.

Joy currently teaches the Woiwurrung language to Year 7 and 8 students at Healesville High school and mentors her sister, Doreen, who also teaches language and culture at the school. It’s a pilot program funded by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. It will be supported until the end of the year. Beyond that, Joy is determined to find the funds to keep the program going.

Joy was taught the Woiwurrung language by her aunt and uncle, the older siblings of her father. 'Uncle Frank spent a lot of time with us and although he was a very quiet man, he would say a word, and it would just penetrate. You just never forgot what he said and how he said it,' she recalls. Joy knew that most of her generation had totally missed out on language, and she felt a responsibility to pass it on to the next generation.

‘It’s a very proud moment when you’re able to teach not just Wurundjeri children, but also non-Aboriginal children, because we are about educating everyone. And if we share the knowledge that’s been handed down over all those years, then we hope that can bring a much more harmonious community.’

This film is part of the ‘Mother Tongue’ language series, documenting Indigenous languages around Victoria. Click here to view the first film of the series, on the Wiradjuri language.

ABC Open Producer: Suzi Taylor

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

Shae Lui's Cooking Adventures
Not a chef. I don’t know much, just wing it a lot and share recipes for you to try out too!
Shae cooks Chicken Vermicelli

High Tide Music Video shot in Wathunga

A reverse role play performed at the Language and the Law Conference II. Supreme Court of the Northern Territory - Darwin

Young Aboriginal people perform a dance associated with the brolga, a large water bird that has great significance in the culture of Arnhem Land, during the Barunga Festival in 1995. A Song Man with clap sticks and a didjeridu accompanies the dance, characterised by high leaps and the sound the brolga makes.

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2024 Ardiyooloon Easter Basketball Carnival
Held at Ardyaloon aka One Arm Point or Bardi

The Ardiyooloon Easter Basketball Comp has always been a wonderful competition that brings so many from far and wide to compete and connect in a safe, healthy and enjoyable environment.

First Languages Australia short with Corey Theatre speaking Gunditjmara.

This video is from a series of videos produced by First Languages Australia that originally appeared on the Gambay Languages map. The map can be viewed at https://gambay.com.au/

Announcing the 2020 virtual delivery of Unbroken Land.

Unbroken Land water themed video works will be released episodically from June onwards.

Virtual presentation offers us unique opportunities to showcase the talents of our Alice Springs community on more far reaching online platforms, and to far greater audiences than the original planned live event.

Access and inclusion will remain at the very heart of the virtual Unbroken Land, with closed captioning and audio description access features.

Water is everywhere

Water is powerful, fragile and precious

Water is life

From the mythical to the mundane

From ritual to resource, water connects us all

We all have water stories to share

Join us on this 2020 Unbroken Land journey…

Our Bedtime Stories 2, Episode 9: Pantirti Tjukurrpa (The Seven Sisters)

Story by Laurel Cooper in the Ngaanyatjarra language. This episode was produced by Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre in Kalgoorlie, WA.

Our Bedtime Stories presents stories for children in Indigenous languages, using traditional storytelling techniques together with animation, music and film. The Our Bedtime Stories series is much more than a parenting tool to get kids to sleep. The series is helping to preserve Indigenous languages across Australia.

Season two of the series has been produced by ICTV in partnership with Barkly Regional Arts, Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media (PAKAM), Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre, and Elizabeth Langslow working with the Warruwi Community on Goulburn Island.

ICTV, showing our way.

At the Croc Festival on Thursday Island boys from Injinoo, a community at the top of Cape York in Far North Queensland, Australia, perform traditional Aboriginal dances; the use of drums and grass skirts hints at strong influence from the nearby Torres Strait Islands.

ICTV Community News - 21st February 2025 (Warlpiri)

Peter Brandy performing at the Nguyuru Waaringarrem Music Festival Halls Creek 2013.

Two videos about a travelling ceremony known in the APY Lands as Kulkalanya. Featuring interviews with Pantjiti MacKenzie.

Puntuku Music Men's Health Project - Balgo 2019

Collecting and making rubbing medicine from Irrmangka-irrmangka. Daisy also sings a healing song for the application of the bush medicine.

Jack Charles shares his story

In this series Jack Buckskin outlines some basic words and phrases of the Kaurna language. The Kaurna are the original inhabitants of the Adelaide plains area in South Australia.

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

Munumburra 1998: Rodeworx - Cain River Way

A Catch and Cook Goanna Video

Marumpu Wangka! Kukatja Hand Talk

This Indigenous Women in STEM event was facilitated by Aunty Bronwyn on our Ourimbah campus.

Produced as part of the Young Strong and Proud project.

Grand Final from the 2015 Lightning Carnival

Taylor (Tipu) Power teaches us the Kaurna names of some Australian native animals.This video 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

Tarnanthi 2019 - Noŋgirrŋa Marawili .

Tarnanthi is a platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country to share important stories. It encourages new beginnings by providing artists with opportunities to create significant new work and to extend their practice.

With the heart of the Festival at the Art Gallery of South Australia, partner exhibitions are featured at diverse venues - from regional galleries to city hospitals, town halls to university campuses and museums to artist studio spaces.

Tarnanthi is presented in partnership with BHP and with the support of the Government of South Australia.

KALI KALI MAMANTA (Come, Come Friends)

Stompem Ground 1992 - Blast From The Past - Fitzroy Xpress - Julia

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

One Girl becomes sad and starts to sniff petrol and her friends find her and help her feel better.

CAFL 2015 Grand Final between Yuendumu and Ti Tree. This game was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Treager Park in Alice Springs.

First Languages Australia short with Steven Coghill speaking about the Yuggera 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

This is a short doco on the history of citizenship in Broome.

Music clip for Gordon Marshall's song, "Muduwarra.'

Our bio-cultural project has teamed up with @statelibraryqld for SPOKEN, an exhibition promoting the importance of preserving some of the few remaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages still alive in Queensland.

'Wik.Thayanam.Thawan’ is a short documentary featuring Elders of Aurukun speaking in Wik-Mungkan, the LAST strong Aboriginal language spoken on Queensland's mainland as a first language!!

Music Video - Ngurra Palyangku Kanyila - Papunya

ICTV's Community Bulletin Board changes each week to advertise community events.

ICTV Community News February 2025 - Blak Business

At the end of 2008 dry season three senior Anangu-Pitantjara artists and weavers from the remote community of Kalka, Central Australia visited the remote community of Aurukun in Far North Queensland to share with community members their skills and knowledge on the creation of three dimensional sculptural weavings.

The project aimed to create pathways where women of diverse remote communities not only share their traditional practices and experiences but also get the interest and motivation of the younger ones.

Wik, Wik Waya and Kugu women already have their own strong traditional style of weaving, but were willing to explore different ways of creating weavings. Especially some of the women wanted to learn how to make
animals, totems and other things.

Steve Jampijinpa explains how language is one of the five pillars of Warlpiri life.

This video was created as part of the Red Sand Culture Music Program. Young participants create and recorde their own songs, along with exploring other multimedia creative outlives, like making music video clips.


Red Sand Culture is a Hip Hop Music and Dance mentoring project delivered by Incite Arts, in partnership with the Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation (WYDAC- Mt Theo Program).

Visit the Red Sand Culture website for more information -- www.redsandculture.com

STOMPEM GROUND 1998 - Pigram Brothers: Howling at the Moon

Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

A line up of some deadly Indigenous bands including:
Emu Rock,
Seaside Drifters,
The Family Shoveller Band (FSB),
MissGenius,
Yurti Band,
C.O.F.F.I.N,
Old Camp,
DARKSIDE and a whole lot more.

A PY Media clip from the archives, originally made for Nganampa Health. This is a short music video about petrol sniffing, sung by Infari Maru.

Bush Bands Bash 2023 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

Footage Captured during the 2018 Balgo Sports Festival.

Mother Tongue series: Head Shoulders Knees and Toes

This video is about Remeyaka lheka (Looking for Goannas)

Ernabella Anangu school early years philosophy painting project.
Pukatja early childhood development painting story.

Tjaltjraak Rangers in Esperance talk about the importance of conservation, land management and working on country.

ICTV's Community Bulletin Board changes each week to advertise community events.

Live Performance by Gulingi Nunga

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

The mountain Balgan, otherwise known as Pigeon House Mountain, is a sacred place from which many stories come from. This dreamtime story is from the Budawang people, one of the thirteen kinship groups in the Yuin area that speak the Dhurga language.

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

Good Mornings Animations: Ngarigo

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Children's showering song sung by Aboriginal children; part of a health strategy programme in remote north-west of South Australia. This strategy was established by the Nganampa Health Council and is known as Uwankara Palyanku Kanyintjaku meaning A Strategy for Well Being.

Music video for the song "Galiwin'ku" by young band Wildflower.

Sandridge Band perform 'Think About our Culture' at Bush Bands Bash 2012.

High Cliffy Island off the Kimberley coast was once home to the Yawijibaya people. Who lived here for about 7 thousand years. But soon after a French film crew visited in 1929 the Yawijibaya people vanished sparking one of the North West’s greatest mysteries.

Talented, strong and committed, this charismatic group of Pitjantjatjara men bring a whole lot of rocking fun to the stage. They have been playing concerts all over Central Australian communities, building a studio, upgrading their equipment and recording their own CDs for a number of years. This dedication shows in their performances and a recent addition of Nigel as main front man has taken their show to another level.

In 2007 the Bush Bands Bash was invited to be the opening night event for the Alice Desert Festival. The stage was set on the Council lawns in the middle of town which attracted a massive crowd of over 2000. The bands came into town a few days early and spent time rehearsing, which meant they where ready to rock when they stepped on stage. The result was incredible performances that set new levels for desert music.

COMMUNITY: Various communities across the Pitlands
LANGUAGES THE SONGS ARE IN: Pitjantjatjara
BAND MEMBERS: Roy Jugadai – Bass & Lead Vocals / Fabian Baker – Rhythm Guitar / Joseph Peters – Drums / Amos Frank – Keyboard / David Morris – Lead guitar and Vocals / Clarence Morris / Nigel – Vocals.
MUSIC: 2005 – Kungka Kutju (Independent)
BUSH BAND BASH GIGS: 2008, 2006
Venue: Alice Desert Festival HUBspace
Date: Friday 14th September
Bands: Tjupi Band, Ltira Band, Wild Desert Band, Family Mix, Drum Atweme, Clancy Lowe, Lily-Joy Hampton
MC: Don Mallard
Sponsors/ Partners: NT Government, Alice Desert Festival, UNICEF /ING Foundation, Imparja TV, Music NT, Waltja, NPY womens council, Busy Bee, CAAC, CAAMA Music

A powerful message from the young girls and young women at Kintore.
A collaboration between Kintore Community and Red Dust Role Models.

May Minyingali Butcher talks about her family in relation to the Stolen Generation and how it affected them.

Showcase of the artistic practice of Western Aranda artist Vincent Namatjira.
Namatjira is a witty and politically astute portrait painter based at Iwantja Arts in Indulkana Community, APY Lands, SA.
With animations of Namatjira's work by Jackson Lee.

Destinee: Apma pa Mpurlparna by Destinee Mpetyana (Year 3)

Pertame is a severely endangered Central Australian language. Pertame School is a community run program working to grow the next generation of Pertame speakers.

Copyright for the audio and images in this video belongs to the Pertame community.

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.

Stompem Ground 1992 - Blast From The Past -
Kevin Gunn - Walja Jidan Jidan.mov

The Pigram Brothers are a seven-piece Indigenous Australian band from the pearling town of Broome, Western Australia, formed in 1996.

They were heavily involved in Broome's musical and theatrical exports – forming the original backing band for Jimmy Chi's 1990 musical Bran Nue Dae, which received international acclaim.

Bush Bands Bash 2023 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

Traditional Inma (dance) performed in Mimili in 1995 (Part 2 of 3)

The 13th national Remote Media Festival presents this Traditional Inma Pulka, where the people from Amata, Fregon, Wingellina and Kenmore Park gathered together in Umuwa for a big Traditional dance ceremony.

A short animation explaining how important fire management is. It describes how fire management is about trying to burn like the old ways

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

Semi Final from the 2015 Lightning Carnival between Papunya and Kintore

This game was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Treager Park in Alice Springs.

Bunjil The Eagle is the creation ancestor for the Jaara people. The animation, sound design and narration were all made by students at The Meeting Place Castlemaine and St Peters Primary in Bendigo.

The Aurukun Indigenous Knowledge Centre received some great footage of a croc (Pikkuw in Wik language) attack on the weekend.

Language workers from right across the top end and throughout WA got together this week for the bi-annual Wanala Language conference.

ABC Open held a video workshop at the conference to demonstrate how easy it is to share language through video. This is the outcome of the workshop.

Produced by Alex Smee

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

Bush Bands Bash 2021: Eastern Arrernte Band Full Set

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2023 TIO CAFL Community Senior Men's Semi Final: Ti Tree vs Western Aranda

IOP had the pleasure of going out to Kowanyama once again to write and record a music video alongside our dance project. This combined project incorporated messaging around sly grog, the importance of family connection, land and respect.

Thanks for Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council & Queensland Government for having our IOP Hip Hop Crew on the ground to work with everyone from the community.

NO SHAME | BE PROUD | RESPECT

At the Croc Festival on Thursday Island, girls and boys from the Ihwya Youth Group from Thursday Island High School perform traditional dances from the Torres Strait Islands, Australia.

Boys from Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait Islands perform traditional dances at Parramatta School's festival in Cairns, Far North Queensland. The boat-shaped headdress is typical of Mabuiag.

A comedy about why going to school is important, and what happens to people who don't.

Official music video clip for 'Camp Dog' by King Stingray

An evening “Wungubal”, just for fun, in Numbulwar. A father dances with his small son. The singing, accompanied by clapsticks and didjeridu, is typical of eastern Arnhem Land.

This short film is about hand language used in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. This film shows the hand sign for 'Let's go!', 'going and not coming back' and 'Are you going?'. You'll learn how to put them together into mara wangka sentence.

Enjoy and check out GALCAC's YouTube channel for a new film each week!

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In tonight's bulletin, we take a look at:

• Culture Day
• Nancy Bates Interview
• Frank Warren Interview
• What Keeps the Fire Burning?

As well as a quick weather update and a look at the last few days of this year's NAIDOC Week.

Four boys from Boigu Island in the Top Western Torres Strait Islands, students from Djarragun College, perform the "Maumatang" warrior dance, armed with bows and arrows, at the Weipa Fest, the Cultural Festival in Weipa, at the Cape York west coast.

2024 Ardiyooloon Easter Basketball Carnival
Held at Ardyaloon aka One Arm Point or Bardi

The Ardiyooloon Easter Basketball Comp has always been a wonderful competition that brings so many from far and wide to compete and connect in a safe, healthy and enjoyable environment.

ICTV Community News February 2025 - Men's March

This is the second part to a comprehensive account of the experiences of a community of Aboriginal People from pre-colonial times to the 1990s.

Out of the PY Media archives, this is the first part of a 2 hour compilation of many traditional dances from the APY Lands.

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

King of the Kimberley:
Kings vs Spurs, Halls Creek Basketball 2015

Different types of Kriol are spoken from Ngukurr right though to Kununurra and down to Tennant Creek. A workshop brought linguists and Kriol speakers from across the Top End to talk about the way we speak

Munumburra 1998: Gary Wilkes - Australia's Black History

Light Painting at night with Copley Kids

Danzal Baker AKA Baker Boy and Baykali Ganambarr, are two deadly Yolngu Dancers have produced two deadly instructional video clip (one in English and one in Yolngu) so that schools, teachers, communities and youth services can play the clip and anyone around the world can learn the deadly dance for themselves.

Remember to warm up, spread out and find a safe space to dance. Drink plenty of health fresh cold water and enjoy dancing this dance together.

Danzal Baker AKA Baker Boy and Baykali Ganambarr Deadly Yolngu dancers make there very own Music Video called 'Yolngu Style' which aimed to use to practise this dance once you have learnt it so you can practise and copy the moves copy the moves.

Yolngu Style - Is a deadly modern contemporary dance music video created by a unique group of talented artists to inspire the world to dance, move and absorb the yolgnu style. Inspired by the mixture of old school hip hop flavour mixed together with traditional Red Flag Dancers from Elcho Island / yolngu style.

Stompem Ground 1992 - Blast From The Past - Fitzroy Xpress - Raining on the Rocks

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 the Ngurrara Women Rangers, elders Beryl Dickens and Jessie Moora, and students from the school to create a theatre performance using giant puppetry and song. The Big Country Puppets project draws on the Rangers' knowledge of their Country's ecology. The Rangers choose the project's location and themes for the theatre project.
The Big Country Puppets projects fuse art and science, as well as maintaining a focus on endangered Aboriginal languages within the production process and performance of each theatre show. The script and songs for the Yakanarra project are written in English and Walmajarri, and the songs were co-written rehearsed and performed by students.
A local dreaming story 'Karnanganyja jaa Likjartiwarnti' (The Emu and the Fork Tailed Kites) from Jessie Moora was adapted for performance, and a new theatre script about an endangered skink ' Jilji the Skink' was co-written with the Ngurrara Rangers, who found this skink during a biodiversity survey in 2021. This story also showcases the rangers fire management work through Right way/Wrong way fire work. The puppets for both of these stories were designed and built with the Rangers, including the Ngurrara Men's Rangers and students from Yakanarra Community school.
A rap song about Jilji the Skink was written in Walmajarri language and in English by Lyrical Instinct (Broome rapper Jacob Gregory) Yakanarra Community school students, with the help of local linguists and language speakers Jessie Moora and Beryl Dickens.
Theatre Kimberley thanks our project partners , Yanunijarra Aboriginal Corporation, Kimberley Language Resource Centre, Environs Kimberley and Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency and to our funders:
Standing Strong Together Act-Belong-Commit Healthway @IndigenousArtsandLanguagesFund
Thanks also to PAKAM - Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media for filming our show.

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The Newboys Band sing about home for their people, community, and country and have, as a result, captured the hearts, attention and interest of the intensely loyal and passionate audiences of Central Australia.

The Newboys Band have amassed an impressive reputation as one of the hardest-working bands in the Northern Territory, travelling hundreds of kilometres to perform at sporting events, festivals, and anywhere else with a space for live music.

Filled to the brim with enthralling melodies and energy, The Newboys Band have played some passionate performances at Territory Day, Desert Harmony Festival, and Bush Bands Bash.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

Seaside Drifters is a local community band from Mijilmilmia approximately 170klm’s south of Broome. All the members hail from the Karajarri tribe and they are a party band who gives great rock n roll and reggae music.

Seaside Drifters are saltwater people and they live off the sea and so the name reflects their connection to country, the sea and the associated hunting and gathering lifestyle. This is a metaphor for the band hunting and gathering a large fan base which they have been very successful in gaining a following throughout the Kimberley.

Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

A line up of some deadly Indigenous bands including:
Emu Rock,
Seaside Drifters,
The Family Shoveller Band (FSB),
MissGenius,
Yurti Band,
C.O.F.F.I.N,
Old Camp,
DARKSIDE and a whole lot more.

From the EVTV archives, this is an Inma showing lots of different dances by the Pitjantjatjara people.

Animated music video clip for Gurrumul Yunupingu's song 'Bapa'.

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

Fitzroy Xpress perform Josephine

A Kuarna Language video from Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.

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

Desert Pea Media is very proud to present a new collaboration with the community of Coomealla/Dareton NSW.

This production was created in April of 2021 - an outcome of a unique, collaborative creative process between Desert Pea Media, Coomealla Health Aboriginal Corporation (a local Indigenous-led Health Service) and an incredibly talented group of students at Coomealla High School, who represent Barkindji and Maraura Tribal Groups.

The overall purpose of the broader project was to facilitate an important, inter-generational conversation about social and emotional well-being for Original Nations young people. Focusing on cultural identity, wellbeing and connection to country.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyze 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities.

We as a team feel deeply honoured and grateful to learn, share and create with the Coomealla community. These projects not only uplift and inspire audiences and community members, but everybody involved.

This project was Directed by filmmaker, facilitator, and hip hop artist Roy Weiland, and co-facilitated by acclaimed Bundjalung hip hop artist 'JK47' or Jacob Paulson. Music Produced by DPM Music Producer Josh Nicholas. See below for full credits.

Special thanks to Jaharlyn Mitchell and the staff at CHAC and Coomealla High School.

Special thanks to the TO's of Coomealla - The Barkindji People, and all of the Clan Groups of the region that participated, welcomed us and shared their country for the creation of this production. We are humbled and grateful for your trust and support.

CREDITS

Roy Weiland - Director/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator/Editor/Grading & Graphics Josh Nicholas - Project Lead/Music Producer/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator, Jacob Paulson (JK47) , Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator Ross Turley - DOP/2nd Camera , Grace Newell - Production Coordinator/Photographer/Co-Producer. Nathaniel Sherwood - Audio Mixing/Mastering. Renae Saxby - Social Media Manager, Scott Large - General Manager Jaharlyn Mitchell - Co-Producer/Community Project Coordinator

STARRING

Olivia Kennedy, Kyanna Dixon, Alannah Shiner, Maya Moore, Annezey-lee Johnson (AJ), Lleyton Johnson, Domanic Poli, Ian Dixon, Duron Johnson, Labroun Winters, Elsie Jones, Lamia Jones, Keira Harris, Kyanna Garlett, Chenille Taylor, Zyeria Kelly, Lydia Wandin, Josh Nicholas, Jacob Paulson, Roy Weiland.

LYRICS

Barkindji/Maraura the place where I’m from
Where the Barka meets the Murray where our people belong
We one mob! So you know our spirit is strong
Its been 60,000 years and our cultures still lives on

I didn’t know what happened in ’67’
Till I sat with my aunt and she told me bout the Referendum
A right to vote. It gave us hope (helped lighten the load)
Our elders spoke amongst the fire and smoke

Its time we make a change, so you can’t be scared
Leave ya shame at the door sis its time to share
Time to love one another but that takes respect
And I can feel it as my heart beats step by step

Lets talk more about our mental health
Because we all got a story that we’re meant to tell (gotta help yourself)
Leave the grog up on the shelf you don’t need it
Gotta listen up when your elders are speaking

Disconnect from disrespect
Look straight ahead and have a vision my bred
Focus on education this nation we gotta protect
Showing respect has a ripple effect (yea)

We walk beside the river and amongst the red dust
So its time to take a stand for the country we love
Look inside for your dreaming and never give up
Cause your country gonna help you when it starts to get rough

HOOK

Culture runs through the Barka the Barka is life
Its written in the stars when I look up at night
Yea we Barkindji muupa’s (kids) we strong and proud
Standing up tall and we yelling it loud

Good Mornings Animations: Wakka Wakka

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

Fourth poem of six in the Writings From The Dark series.

Takataka - Gurindji Sign Language

15 short videos with Gurindji people demonstrating signs for people, places, artefacts and actions.

Boor: Home, country or place

Liz Kelly-Hunter teaches 22 words of Nyul Nyul Language spoken on the Dampier Peninsula.

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Michael Jarrett shares a Gumbaynggirr dreamtime story with us, from the banks of the Nambucca River... right next to the site a giant once fell.

The 'This Place' project invites Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it.

A Documentary about the history of the UPK Albums over the years and what they mean to the Anangu people.

BBB23 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

How to make Garlic Naan ?
Try this for your next curry or if you simply need emotional support ??❤️
**Do not recommend this all the time but it is nice once in a while!**
Ingredients for the Naan:
250g plain flour
1 teaspoon of Instant yeast
Salt
Sugar
Greek yoghurt
(Roughly) 100mls of tempered water (not too hot or cold)
Cooking oil
Ingredients for the Garlic butter:
1 garlic clove finely chopped or grated
Parsley or coriander if you’re an adult
Salt
Butter
Naan method:
1. To a bowl add the flour, yeast, salt & sugar then mix.
2. Add a teaspoon of oil, 2 tablespoons of Greek yogurt and the tempered water.
3. Mix with a butter knife until you can’t then begin to kneed by hand - when it gets sticky add flour bit by bit. Knead until it forms a nice dough that doesn’t stick to your hands this should take 4-8mins of kneading.
4. Rest for 20-60mins.
5. Make the garlic butter just before you cook the first naan - combine in a small bowl and microwave for 30-60 seconds.
6. Onto a floured surface roll out your naan thin like I did and cook in a pan on a medium-high heat, flipping it to your liking and then serve on a plate. Brush with garlic butter and cover with a tea towel while you make the rest.
Enjoy but only sometimes! ?

The hook is the Wiradjuri word for 'welcome' in the Condobolin area Wiradjuri language group in Central Western NSW.

'Wiradjuri Welcome' is a track created by the team at Desert Pea Media, alongside Indigenous artists Roy Peterson (Condobolin) and Bruce Carr (Wellington) as part of a Desert Pea Media mentoring program with local young people.

Bardi Dancers at Beagle Bay 2013. This was filmed at the Beagle Bay Keep Culture Festival.

2015 Lightning Carnival Day 2 - Plenty Highway Thunder Vs Ti Tree Roosters.

This game was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Treager Park in Alice Springs.

In 2013 CAN WA set out to encourage a group of Noongar students in Narrogin to learn their traditional language.
Aboriginal artists and mentors were engaged to deliver a program where popular culture, such as music and media was used to inspire these teenagers to learn to speak and write Noongar.
Noongar Pop Culture presented by Act-Belong-Commit, is a CAN WA project in association with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company and part of CAN WA’s Strong Culture, Strong Community program.

The Wandjina is the centre of spiritual life for the three tribes who live at Mowanjum (Worrorra, Ngarinyin and Wunambal). The stories of the Wandjina from Lalai (creation time) inform all aspects of life in this West Kimberley Aboriginal community, and are publicly celebrated every year in a festival of ritual, dance and song.

Photographed during the 2010 festival, Mowanjum People - Spirit of the Wandjina is an 18 minute film that explores the importance of these beliefs against the tumultuous recent history of the community. Narrated by local artist Leah Umbagai, the film voices the histories of key elders at Mowanjum. Their heartfelt personal stories speaking of a dynamic on-going culture that has sustained a proud people for millennia.

As celebrated Worrorra artist and lawman Donny Woolagoodja says; "Without your culture you're lost, floating.... that's why it's so very important that the Wandjina remains alive and strong and Mowanjum".

www.mowanjumarts.com

Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu.

This series consists of four short films in which Warlpiri women sing, dance and tell the stories of different ancestral beings who travel across Warlpiri country. Each part contains footage of these women singing, painting their bodies with red and white ochre and performing the accompanying dances. The first part presents the Minamina yawulyu and tells of group of ancestral women as they emerge from Minamina, in the far west of Warlpiri country and begin their journey eastwards. Part 2 presents the songs and stories of the Watiyawarnu ancestors from Ngurlulirri-nyinanya, to the north-west of Yuendumu, telling of their travels as they search for varieties of acacia seed, grinding them and making seed cakes along the way. Part 3 presents the famous songs and story of the two Jangalas from Warlukurlangu whose evil blue-tongue lizard father lights a raging bush fire, forcing them to run away southwards out of their country before they return home, weak and exhausted. And finally, part 4 presents the songs and stories of the Ngapa ‘Rain’ Dreaming that travels westwards across the country to the north of Yuendumu. Warlpiri women from Yuendumu have presented these yawulyu so that the songs and their associated knowledge can be remembered and performed by future generations of Warlpiri women. These films appear on a DVD which comes as an accompanying insert in the book ‘Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women’s songs from Yuendumu’ (Batchelor Institute Press, 2017).

Ngalyapitja NG Media End of Year Concert Warakurna - December 2017

Crew: Jennifer Connolly, Marcia Mitchell, Cynthia Burke, Salty Lewis, Danny Fox, Rongomai Bailey, Alan Nash, Ryan Khay, Fiona, Amy Heatrick, Hinerangi Tukere, Sarah Wallingford, Kristyn Oxenbridge, Ramath Thomas, Dave Sumner.

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/

Leave Him in the Long Yard by Trevor Adamson & Lyndon Reid

PY Media end of year concert held at Umuwa on the APY Lands on the 15th December 2018.

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

Bush Bands Bash 2021

The Nowhere Girls are faced with the hardest challenge yet. To save their island from sinking. The powerful flying crystals might hold the answer.

2022 TIO CAFL Community Senior Men’s Grand Final: Mt Allan vs Papunya

Werte! Unte mwerre? Hello, how are you? This song teaches us how to greet each other in Central/Eastern Arrernte. Based on an old Arrernte nursery rhyme Werte! is a brand new tune with rocking desert guitar and kids call-and-response.

How do you greet each other in the First Languages where you live?

'Werte!', is the opening track of Ampe-Kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground) Band’s new album, Ampe-mape Alyelheme (Kid’s Sing) that teaches and celebrates Arrernte language and culture through music. 

At Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground Central Australia), we as First Nations people are creating resources for children in our own language. We have been writing children’s books and songs that speak about our culture, country, families and language. We want our kids to grow up with music and educational resources that reflect their culture – that can help them to learn, respect, speak, read, write, and sing in their First Language. 

We started this to keep our language strong, and it's grown into something everybody can enjoy and learn from. Join us to learn our language through our music.

Kele! 

Language: Eastern/Central Arrernte

Song Lyrics written by Amanda Turner, Carol Turner
 
Music Written by: William “Nookie” Lowah, Myles Turner, Harry James Angus

Lyric Video created by: Mitchell Doolan and Damon Van Der Schuit

Supported by the Australian Government Indigenous Languages and the Arts Program
 
About Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground Central Australia): 

Children’s Ground is a First Nations organisation creating a different future for the next generation of First Nations children. We believe every child born today should experience a lifetime of opportunity and grow up strong in their identity and culture, free from injustice and economic poverty. 

www.childrensground.org.au

A good dry season full of amazing produce and spectacular views of our countryside ?????

Tyson and Crystal got to have a few yarns with some people about Remembrance Day and who they have a story about who fought in the war.


Check it out #remembranceday #umeewarra #umeewarramedia #aboriginal #lestweforget2024

On a picnic in the West Macdonnells these tjitji mankurpa (three kids) were showing how clever they were with the 'head, shoulders knees and toes' song in Pitjantjatjara. We thought we'd make it into a little movie to help you learn the song as well

Hard Rock live band "Silhouettes" put on a great show!

Music video of "Let the River Run' by Jimmy Chi.

Work of the Finke River Mission in Central Australia

Vidio shot at the Allyn River near Gresford N.S.W. at the Church which holds a lot of history and is very popular with tourists in the Hunter Valley.

In Ngallabigee in Cape York Peninsula the practice of traditional burning has been absent for over two decades. In this video, Traditional Owner Dion Creek explains how Ngallabigee has changed over that time and highlights why cultural practices, such as traditional burning, are important for landscape management. To read more about NERP research into Indigenous biodiversity management, visit: nerpnorthern.edu.au/research/projects/22.

This film provides an overview of the opportunity to implement the savanna burning methodology
to create carbon credits. It includes animated diagrams that demonstrate how a carbon credit is created. It also explores the non-carbon co-benefits of savanna burning by addressing, from an Indigenous perspective, the question ‘Why would we want to be involved?’.

The film is a companion to an education manual entitled 'Climate change and carbon farming in Northern Australia', which can be downloaded from the NAILSMA website at the following link: nailsma.org.au/hub/resources/publication/climate-change-and-carbon-farming-northern-australia-education-manual

Gwen Schrieber from Yarrabah shares her story.

Video clip of the song Holy Highway by Harry Barriya from Soft Sands Band.

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/

Beagle Bay band Billard Boys performs live at Saltwater Festival 2018 in Broome.

Bush Bands Bash 2018:

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

King of Hearts bring their sweet sounds in support of Footprince, returning for one more big gig after more than twenty years. They're sure to make you move in honour of 2021 Survival Day.

2021 TIO CAFL U15 Junior Men's Grand Final: South vs Federal

Produced by Indigenous Community Television Limited (ICTV)

© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2021


Commentary: Ebony Miller & Sheralee Taylor

Executive Producer: Rita Cattoni
Producer: Ashley Renehan
Line Producer: Andre Sawenko
Production Manager: Joshua Davis
Camera: Jason Mathews
Camera: Lorena Walker
Camera: William Thomson

Technical Directors: Ben McIntyre
Technical Directors:
Replay Operator: Daniel Wood
Runner: Janaya Kopp
Graphics: Elizabeth Marie Smith
Music: Thomas Big Bear Saylor


SUPPORTED BY:
Yeperenye Shopping Centre
Centrecorp Foundation
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (BIITE)
Positive Choices
Outback Stores


THANK YOU TO:
AFLNT
CAFL
TIO
Alice Springs Town Council


© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2021

Indulkana Sports Weekend: WINTJALANGU SAINTS VS INDULKANA TIGERS

Good Mornings Animations: Yugambeh

Filmed on location in Yirrkala North East Arnhem Land, NT.

Directed by Sam Brumby & King Stingray

Yo bukuwikama yurru yawirriny'nha yirrkalawuy dhiyaku maliwu.

The production would also like to thank Mangatjay Yunupiŋu, Malŋay Yunupiŋgu, Maciu Gentle, Glen Gentle, Dan Wagg, Stu Kellaway, Buku-larrŋgay Mulka Centre, The HOG Shed, GrantsNT.

A special dance is performed in Lajamanu, a Warlpiri Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert. It is performed welcoming important visitors, during celebrations when the Northern Territory received self-government on 1 July 1978.

This short film is about hunting for honeyanyts which are called nyamanka, in the Goldfields region of WA.

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Cooking Coconut Curry Pork Belly for All Fix Mechanical in Darwin.
Bradley and the team did a service on the Dmax and while I was there I cooked them up some coconut curry pork belly for an arvy lunch ?
Ingredients:
- ghee
- Uncle Robbie’s Blachan
- pork belly
- KEEN'S curry
- garlic & ginger
- onion
- potatoes/carrot/celery
- bay leaf (optional)
- mustard seeds (optional)
- chicken stock cube
- water
- salt & pepper
- coconut milk or cream
Method:
1. Cook onions, add keens curry, water, garlic & ginger, make a curry slurry.
2. Add pork belly, coat in slurry, add water, simmer for 20-30mins.
3. Add veggies, simmer for another 20-30mins until they’re cooked.
4. Add coconut cream or milk at the end, bring back to a gentle simmer, turn heat off, done.
5. Thicken with a corn starch or flour slurry if you prefer.
Enjoy! ?

James Range Band - Kungka

Korean Gochujang Chicken & Rice ?
(580 calories give or take)
Macros:
52g Protein
45g Carbs
18.6g Fats
Ingredients for a single serve:
200g Chicken Thigh Fillet
10g Gochujang Paste
2g Garlic
2g Ginger
4g Honey
1g Sesame oil
1/4 tbsp sesame seeds (optional)
Juice of 1/2 a lime
Pepper
Method:
1. Combine ingredients in a bowl, marinate overnight or cook straight away at 200c/392f for 18 minutes in the air fryer until the chicken is cooked with a nice char.
2. Serve with 125g of jasmine rice, garnish with coriander, spring onions and lime juice.
**for meal prep adjust amounts to suit your needs**
Enjoy ?

2024 Ardiyooloon Easter Basketball Carnival
Held at Ardyaloon aka One Arm Point or Bardi

The Ardiyooloon Easter Basketball Comp has always been a wonderful competition that brings so many from far and wide to compete and connect in a safe, healthy and enjoyable environment.

ICTV's Community Bulletin Board changes each week to advertise community events.

This short film is about how to show 'us' in the Ngaanyatjarra language from the Goldfields region of Western Australia. Join Mr. Nintipayi as he explains language each week.

Enjoy and check out GALCAC's YouTube channel for a new film each week!

Balgo celebrate their culture and Community with their words of wisdom and Song for Dance and Spirit

Darwin singer-songwriter Ali Mills sings her great creole version of Waltzing Matilda.

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

Baker Boy is the freshest new Yolngu hiphop talent from Northern Territory Australia who is proudly rapping in Yolngu Matha language representing his Arnhem Land families. This song is an example of the real Aussie Hip-hop!

Baker Boy had a huge hit last year with his dance track 'Yolngu Style' and has bounced back with his first rap track. Teaming up with gun up 'n' coming producer Tobiahs Fakhri and getting killer chorus featuring 14 year old Kian Brownfield on the hook. This track is so infectious and good luck with trying not to play it on repeat.

'Baker Boy' the Fresh Prince of Arnhem Land!!!

Cloud 9 Lyrics
(Lyrical translation the Yolngu Matha to English !)

Intro Adlibs
Baker boy in the town
bounce with it
I'm on cloud 9
bounce with it

Verse 1
Don't be shame
you have a good brain good heart
they see you really humble don't ever change or you might crumble look after yourself just think about god
Don't turn ever turn back on god
way gela (skinned name) it's your turn to look after the sisters because I stay really far in the cold
keep your head strong
we gonna fly high like and eagle
don't wanna see no ego
don't think about it let go
just hold on to my hand and let's go
I am baker boy young man not a boy
you can't control me like a toy
im a human being just like you and me
we are family stop the jealousy
come with me now, break it down, North side of town,
Stop being the clown, be the person that chases the crown
coz at the end of the day youll be found
so never back down.

Pre chorus
You wanna be as good as me? Boy you better practise
Step back feel the power of my blackness! x2

Chorus
Cant stop me now, you cant bring me down
I'm on cloud 9, and I'm not coming down x2

Verse 2
You look each other with jealousy
like you are crazy
when ever the truth comes out
your heart is ripping out
You gotta stay strong no dout,
the bigger the crowd the bigger we are
coz the internet changes the line,
coz they they dont want us too divide
from the human race
always on the case, ended up getting chased
now we're standing in chains
Flash back being black reality hits back
your system is whack trying to change the track because
I see white people always see black people differently
police man does the same job
gotta understand this is our land
making our body sick with medicine alcohol and marijuana we are destroying each other so there you go

Pre chorus
You wanna be as good as me? Boy you better practise
Step back feel the power of my blackness! x2

Chorus
Cant stop me now, you cant bring me down
I'm on cloud 9, and I'm not coming down x4

First Languages Australia short with Leanne Pope speaking about the Wakka Wakka 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

First Languages Australia short with Reegan Finlay speaking about the Gunggari 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

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

Dodge City Boyz: Cruising Back To Turkey Creek

Our Bedtime Stories 2, Episode 5: Kangkere (Blue-tongue Lizard Story)

Story by Lena Nambulla in the Kaytetye language. This episode was produced by ICTV in Stirling, NT.

Our Bedtime Stories presents stories for children in Indigenous languages, using traditional storytelling techniques together with animation, music and film. The Our Bedtime Stories series is much more than a parenting tool to get kids to sleep. The series is helping to preserve Indigenous languages across Australia.

Season two of the series has been produced by ICTV in partnership with Barkly Regional Arts, Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media (PAKAM), Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre, and Elizabeth Langslow working with the Warruwi Community on Goulburn Island.

ICTV, showing our way.

Ḏawurr Boarding is a boarding school in North East Arnhem Land, that caters for 40 Aboriginal students. Ḏawurr Boarders come from many different communities within North East Arnhem, West Arnhem, Darwin and further to study at Nhulunbuy High School.

"We've had enough, after seventy plus years of coal mining you would think they would give it a rest."

"We're going to continue to talk up and speak out and get more people, especially our young people standing up and saying, our culture is something special and we're gonna continue to fight for it."
Dwayne Coulthard

STOMPEM GROUND 2022 - King of Hearts

Jalajirrpa Band performing with Opera Australia

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

In tonight's bulletin, we take a look at:

• Corporate Breakfast
• Pika Wiya Community Breakfast
• Flag Raising Ceremony
• Colour Run

As well as a look at the week's weather and what other events are on this NAIDOC Week.

Station ID: Arrente Boxing - Generic

From the 2010 Bush Bands Bash in Alice Springs, this is the Sunlight Band's set. They are musicians who mostly come from Amata.

Elders talk about their Dreaming in the Kimberley Region

Alpurrulam kids sing and perform their song 'Children of the Sun'

This story “Angwenhe impatye?” Whose footprint?, has captured the essence of the centre, the Arrernte language, the landscape and the animals living here. The theme of the video highlights all of this and more- young children are always asking questions, love repetition, surprises and more stories.

A live recording of Have You Ever Seen the Rain? by Rodeworx at the Nguyurru Waringaarem Music Festival, Halls Creek, 2013

This production was written, recorded and filmed over 5 days as a collaboration with Desert Pea Media and young people from Thursday Island in the Torres Straits.

Part of an ongoing mentoring program - a partnership between Desert Pea Media, Smugglers of Light Foundation, UN Ltd, Tagai State College and APRA. 'Two Worlds' is long - awaited second production from Tagai Buway, who also featured on DPM's debut album 'Song Nation Volume 1'.

The crew from Thursday Island are also part of the DPM All-Stars - a hand picked group of Indigenous young people that came to Sydney to write and record a song about the UN Declaration of Human Rights for Indigenous People in partnership with UNICEF and performed at the 2014 Yabun Festival on Australia Day.

This song was written collaboratively with staff from Tagai State College on Thursday Island, local young people and elders, Toby Finlayson, Aunty Gail Mabo and Joel 'Roc West' Westlake from Desert Pea Media.

The story was developed around the concept of living in two worlds - traditional and contemporary. The participants identified the importance of pride, spirit and strength that comes from traditional islander culture, and the vitality of life on the islands. It is only through knowledge and understanding that young TSI people can survive in this rapidly changing contemporary culture.

And survive they will. As sure as the sun will rise.

This project was written, recorded and filmed in four days by Desert Pea Media artists, and co-written/ directed/ performed by students from Mian School in Dubbo, which runs alternative education programs for disengaged young people. They're the Last Chance Crew.

Attendance rates for Indigenous young people in Central West NSW are alarmingly lower than non-Indigenous students, and this program sought to create dialogue around these issues.

What prevents Indigenous young people engaging at school? Where does it come from? What does it mean for their future? How can it change? Will it change? Whose choice is it? What are YOU gunna do?

CAFL Grand final 2015 between Titjikala Hawks and Laramba Eagles.

This game was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Treager Park in Alice Springs.

CAN WA partnered with Quairading District High School (QDHS) and artist in residence, Steven Aiton in 2013 to develop a series of short animated films that portray Noongar dreamtime stories and experiences of students throughout the QDHS’s 100-year history.
One of the short films tells the story of Noongar Elder John Kickett who campaigned to have his children attend the local school in the early 1900s. The animation reveals how his efforts marked the beginning of the end of segregated education in Western Australia.
The animation project was funded by the Department of Culture and the Arts through the ArtsEdge Artist-In-Residency grants program.

First Languages Australia short with Annalee Pope talking in Waka Waka language.

First Languages Australia short with Jeff Chesters speaking about the Jarowair 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

First Languages Australia short with Ricky Buchanan speaking about the Gumbaynggir 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

Kurraka learns some surprising birth order names!

This series 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/

Minyma Kutjarra - Walungurru (Kintore) Young Women & Young Men's Program..

Produced by Red Dust Role Models.

This country is strong and will remain strong for us. It is alive in spirit. Country always welcomes us and reminds us that we are family. We have the responsibility to look after our father’s and mother’s country by following the Law. We don’t make the Law; our Law is handed down from generation to generation.
Country is there for us to live on and use and we are there for it. It’s a strong belief that we should hunt and look around country, walk on the same ground and remember it. This country is us … we love this country.
We were born and grew up in this country. We were taught on country and we want to teach our young ones too. When we pass on, our children can hold country strong, like we do now.
This IPA is for us. It gives us a better chance to look after country and people, and pass our connections on. It’s been a long time since we’ve walked the country. This IPA gives us the opportunity to go back, remember, and use it. It also helps our young people become more knowledgeable. We have rangers learning both Yapa and Kardiya ways of managing country. It’s good for our young people to look after country; it’s their country too.
Translated by Valerie Napanangka Patterson and Annette Nampijinpa Patrick

Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed the CLC to re-imagine their IPA Plan of Management, an English-heavy guide book for looking after the IPA. The brief was to create a lush digital resource using spoken Warlpiri that could be accessed both online and offline to mirror the content of the management plan and be navigated through voice commands. The CLC’s hope is that the IPA digital storybooks will help all Warlpiri – from elders to school children – to better understand and support the work to keep country healthy and culture strong. The CLC has made digital storybooks for both the Southern Tanami and the Northern Tanami IPAs. See www.ngurra.org and www.walyalku.org.au

Produced by Red Dust Role Models.

Ngangk: Story, news, or talk.

Liz Kelly-Hunter teaches 22 words of Nyul Nyul Language spoken on the Dampier Peninsula.

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Wangal people know Sydney as the place of eel Dreaming and before it was known as the Parramatta River, the waterway was called Burramattagal. From trees that protected Aboriginal children from snakes to the first contact with Europeans, join Uncle Jimmy Smith in a tour of Sydney's significant parks and waterways.

The 'This Place' project invites Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it.

Our Bedtime Stories 2, Episode 8: Nganke (Kaytetye Crow Story)

Story by Amy Nambulla in the Kaytetye language. This episode was produced by ICTV in Stirling, NT.

Our Bedtime Stories presents stories for children in Indigenous languages, using traditional storytelling techniques together with animation, music and film. The Our Bedtime Stories series is much more than a parenting tool to get kids to sleep. The series is helping to preserve Indigenous languages across Australia.

Season two of the series has been produced by ICTV in partnership with Barkly Regional Arts, Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media (PAKAM), Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre, and Elizabeth Langslow working with the Warruwi Community on Goulburn Island.

ICTV, showing our way.

Introduction to ICTV programming grid and Young Way times.

Wanganaranku loosely translates in Pitjantjatjara as respect. The Areyonga school was keen for Red Dust to run some programs which focused on respectful relationships during our March 2014 community visit. After some workshop based sessions with students looking at how our behavours affect other people and the concept of getting back what you give out, or cause and effect, we set about writing lyrics for a song. Local muso's Kelvin, Jacob and Mervin lent their talents to recording the music and the senior students set about doing the rest. The video followed with the whole school getting involved over the course of our stay. Wednesday saw a massive pool party to bid the pool farewell for winter so we got invloved and screened the video for the first time to the whole community over a few burnt snags. We were also blessed with some singing from the local choir and finished the night off with a brief but lively disco. All up a fantastic community program with much thanks to all Areyonga school staff and students.

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Tunu Smith and NewBeat Band - Sitting all alone
PY Media - Radio 5NPY - Tunu Smith and NewBeat Band - Sitting all alone (Warumpi) Live in the APY Lands for NAIDOC Week Facebook

Classic Stompem Ground - Silhouettes: Lost in Time

The main traditional ceremony of the Tiwi Aboriginal people is the "Ilaninga" or Pukumani ceremony connected with death. Carved and painted poles, commissioned by the family of the deceased are displayed on the site where the funeral dances take place, near the house of the deceased. This was filmed in 1987 in Nguiu, Bathurst Island, Australia, with a video camera and unfortunately the tape has suffered; excuses for the wind noise.

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 to participate in. Everyone is welcome.

Live CAFL Community Football Promo: Grand Final Papunya vs Western Aranda

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

2024 CAFL Senior Men Community Grand Final - Ntaria v Papunya.

Samantha and Chevon talk about their spooky encounter with a ghost.

ICTV Community News - 13th of December 2024 (Warlpiri)

ICTV's Community Bulletin Board changes each week to advertise community events.

Yirara News - YCTV Ep1 Term 1 2025

In our first YiraraTV for 2025, we have a look at our Christmas fun, visit our classrooms and get ready for a dawn run.
Presenter:- Della Gill – Alice Springs.

YiraraTV, So Good!

The story of how they saw white man for the first time in 1963, sung as a song.

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

Promotional movie about the work of the Finke River Mission in Central Australia

Granddaughter Joeline Wise films her grandmother Ningie Nanala and aunty Sadie Padoon at Old Balgo Mission in front of the ruins. They reminisce about the old days living at the Catholic mission and tell stories from the past.

'Culture Remainz' was written, recorded, filmed and edited over five days as part of a mentoring process by Desert Pea Media artists, high school students and staff at Tagai State College in July 2013.

Thursday Island, also known as 'TI' or 'Waybeni' is the administrative and commercial center of the Torres Strait Islands (TSI) -- lying 39 kilometers north of the Cape York Peninsula.

The people of the Torres Strait are strongly connected to their ancestral lands and traditional culture is very strong and vibrant here. This particular production aimed to create a story that would recognize and advocate awareness of the struggles of the past, yet celebrate TSI culture and represent the different cultural groups that make up the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait).

Special thanks to Deb Belyea, Rachel Templeton, Patrick Mau, Gail Mabo, and Richard Matthew

We pay our respects to the Kawrareg people - traditional owners of the country upon which this story was told.

Christ The King Basketball Competition Highlights: Part 2

A short film from the 40 Stories Project, which brought together 40 Indigenous Christians from many different localities across Australia to tell their life stories. Following Jesus has positively impacted the 40 storytellers' lives, families and communities. Many have overcome significant obstacles and disadvantage, such as addiction, illness, poverty and lack of education. More info: www.40stories.com.au

First Languages Australia short with Mandy Nicholson speaking Woiwurrung.

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.

'Yolngu' is the first single from my second EP.

It is a special song to me as it involves samples I recorded in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia. I have been lucky enough to visit and grow up closely with an Aboriginal family since I was about 4. My dad wanted my brother and I to experience what traditional aboriginal culture was like, so we visited a family every few years. They have also visited us and spoke to my classmates when I was at school about Aboriginal culture. We were also lucky enough to be adopted into the family as the elder had sung for 'two white babies to come play with her children.'

On my last trip, I asked whether we could collaborate and record some singing and traditional music. They were excited to combine our two backgrounds of music and that's where these recordings came from

The music video is all footage I have filmed during my visits, It shows the family that we have spent many years with. I want to put this video out, highlighting and celebrating their amazingly rich culture.

'I am a real Aboriginal Australian, and that is my life - and you - you too, be an Australian'

Available now on iTunes & Spotify through Inertia Access: lnk.to/DH_Ylg

Socials:
https://soundcloud.com/dailyholla
https://www.facebook.com/dailyholla
https://twitter.com/HollaDaily

Publicity:
http://www.mammalsounds.com


This video and song exists purely to celebrate Indigenous Australian culture. This video may contain images that upset Aboriginal viewers.

Please contact: dailyholla.music@gmail.com

First Languages Australia short with Fay Stewart-Muir about learning Boonwurrung language.

2017 Tiwi Island Grand Final:
Muluwarri Magpies Vs Tapalinga Superstars.

The Tiwi Island Grand Final was filmed by six amazing local camera trainees, who did a remarkable job amidst the wild weather on the day.

A huge thank you to our trainees Louis Kantilla, Grace Young, Patrick Heenan, Paul Portaminni, Ron Poantimilui & Fabian Kantilla.

The camera trainees were supported by Gina Campbell, John Hodgson, and Heath Baxter, who also filmed some amazing on ground footage as a roving camera unit.

A huge thank you to Ben Pridmore for technical support.
Project directed by Josh Davis.

A huge thank you to the supporters of this project Community Broadcasting Foundation, Australian Department of Health, Tiwi Islands Football League, Amity Community Services, Teabba - Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association, Sea Swift, Mercure Darwin Airport Resort.

Ltyentye Apurte vs Ti Tree (Country League)

2017 CAFL Country and Community Cup: Easter Sunday, 16th April.

Captured by the 2017 ICTV Live Team at Traeger Park: Joshua Davis, Kiara Bailey, Gina Campbell, Christopher Fitzpatrick, Jamie Balfour, Ben Pridmore, and Ben McIntyre.

Special thanks to AFL Northern Territory.

Mother Tongue series: Greetings in Dhurga

The music video for Emily Wurramara's second single 'Black Smoke' from her debut EP of the same name.

The track is "connecting with the souls and spirits around you. Whenever I sit at the campfire I feel at one with my spirit, my soul and the earth."

Mainriver - Yiyili

‘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 vision for the future.

In this first video, we hear from Aboriginal elders and custodians from the Western Arrernte people, Central Arrernte people and Warlpiri people in Central Australia:

Kevin 'Mpitjana' Ungwanaka, Custodian of Irrmankarra (Running Waters)
Que 'Nakamarra' Kenny, Custodian of Lhere Pinte (Finke River)
Peter 'Mbitjana' Renehan, Custodian of Lhere Mbantua (Todd River)
Benedict 'Kngwari' Stevens, Custodian of Lhere Mbantua (Todd River)
Ned 'Jampijimpa' Hargraves, Warlpiri Elder and Traditional Owner Pirlinyanu

Special thanks to Eric Vanweydeveld, Australian Water Association NT Branch President and 2019 NT Water Professional of the Year for his incredible commitment to this first video in the series.

Trevor Adamson Live Country Session in the APY Lands
APY Lands country legend Trevor Adamson live in the PY Media Studio today.
More songs coming soon. Please share and support local Anangu artist.
Palyao.

PY Media Live
Tune into PY Media to watch the APY women's Softball Grand final.
Amata Bombers VS Fregon Bulldogs live from Pukatja.

Utju Band

2022 TIO CAFL Semi-Final: Mt Allan v's Western Aranda August 21/8/22

STOMPEM GROUND 2022 - King of Hearts

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When ceremony was a big part of everyones life. It was filmed and played out to the community through EVTV (Ernabella Video TV) the first and only pirate TV station. There was no internet, only ABC which was switched off to show ceremony on EVTV. This video is a shortened edit for a wider audience. The producers and performers wanted to show their culture to the world. View with discretion Anangu have passed away.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

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Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

The Family Shoveller Band are proud Karajarri family members who were all introduced to music at a young age. They started playing in their backyard in the remote Aboriginal community of Bidyadnga, WA.

Seaside Drifters is a local community band from Mijilmilmia approximately 170klm’s south of Broome. All the members hail from the Karajarri tribe and they are a party band who gives great rock n roll and reggae music.

Seaside Drifters are saltwater people and they live off the sea and so the name reflects their connection to country, the sea and the associated hunting and gathering lifestyle. This is a metaphor for the band hunting and gathering a large fan base which they have been very successful in gaining a following throughout the Kimberley.

Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

A line up of some deadly Indigenous bands including:
Emu Rock,
Seaside Drifters,
The Family Shoveller Band (FSB),
MissGenius,
Yurti Band,
C.O.F.F.I.N,
Old Camp,
DARKSIDE and a whole lot more.

Johno and his son LJ shares the importance of being on-country and why they do what they love doing.

ICTV Community News February 2025 - Bousta

From 1987, this Inma is out of the PY Media archives and was shot in Ernabella, Pipalyatjara, & Amata.

Photostory in B&W of Corroborree People, Archival

David Banjo shows us a 'video postcard' of life in Looma, his home community.

Mau Power (aka Patrick Mau) is a lyrical storyteller from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. For many years Mau Power has been guided by two cultures; Indigenous culture and Hip Hop culture.

2015 Lightning Carnival Day 1 Kintore Vs Amoonguna

Our first meeting with Alangkwa Valley, and Napanangka a mother of three and a grandmother of three, is getting ready for a funeral.
As family arrive in Alangkwa Valley for sorry business, Napanangka sends Celine to town to pick up her sister Whitney from the bus and pay for the final funeral instalment. Lionel is worried about sending Celine, who is going into town with her cousins Hope and Faith.
Written by Warren H Williams.

This production was written, recorded and filmed over 5 days in April 2016 in the remote community of Bourke in far Western NSW. An out come of a Desert Pea Media community project with a group of young Indigenous people enrolled at Bourke High School.

The project came about through a partnership between Desert Pea Media, Bourke High School and Outback Division of General Practice.

2017 Grand Final: Wanarn Crows vs Warakurna Roos.

Captured by the NG Media Outside Broadcast Crew: Marcia Mitchell, Duane Foster, Jennifer Mitchell, Jasmin Lawson, Mark Finlay, Alan Nash, Rongomai Bailey, Fiona, Rhan Khay, Sarah Wallingford, Kristyn Oxenbridge.

Field Umpires:Rowan Scott & Mick Baker.
Goal Umpires: Craig Jackson & Leslie Giles.

2017 Grand Final Best Player Award: Kumana Robertson.

Karajarri Dancers: Jalalay Festival 2017. Culture is the compass. 19th 21 September2017

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

Alec Baker, Peter Mungkuri and Mr Kunmanara Pompey are three senior artists and respected leaders from Indulkana community on the APY Lands, SA. As young men, they were renowned stockmen and in 2017 they coordinated a men’s camp at the local cattle station. Influenced by their ongoing love for cowboy and western films and country music, they created their own spaghetti western: Never Stop Riding.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

Dodge City Boyz: full set

"Niminjarra" is a story owned by Warnman people of the Great Sandy Desert in WA.
Two young men transformed themselves into snakes to make their way home from law ceremony to their mother in the west. They were pursued by “Niminjarra” spirit beings all the way to Lake Dora.
The two snakes met their fate there, but their spirits entered the salt lake and remain in the water table under the surface. The “Niminjarra” were the ancestors of the Warnman people who live in the region today.

Bush Bands Bash 2019: Docker River Band - Ngura Kutjupa Kanpinya

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

Bush Bands Bash 2019: Eylandt Band-Track1

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

Bush Bands Bash 2019: Rising Wind Band-Karnta Kurlu

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

The Uti Kulintjaku Watiku (men’s) group of NPY Women’s Council formed in 2016, with a commitment to promote healing, prevent family violence, and develop community capacity and resilience.
Tjanimaku Tjukurpa | Tjanima’s Story grew out of a genuine care and concern for young people and a desire to pass on a positive message for malatja tjuta, their descendants.
It tells the story of a young boy growing up in a tough environment where it seems there is no one looking out for him. As the story develops, the young man gets support from his grandfather who looks after him with care and compassion.
The story of Tjanima is a story of hope, connection and healing.

King of Hearts bring their sweet sounds in support of Footprince, returning for one more big gig after more than twenty years. They're sure to make you move in honour of 2021 Survival Day.

2021 TIO CAFL Community Senior Men’s Div 2 Grand Final: Mt Allan vs Titjikala live from TIO Traeger Park on Sunday 5 August. #territoryfooty (C) 2021 AFLNT Ltd. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced by any means without the express permission of the rights holder.

Produced by Indigenous Community Television Limited (ICTV)

© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2021


Commentary Stan Coombe & Joe Clarke

Executive Producer: Rita Cattoni
Producer: Ashley Renehan
Line Producer: Andre Sawenko
Production Manager: Joshua Davis
Camera: Lorena Walker
Camera: Jason Mathews
Camera: William Thomson
Camera: James Balfour

Technical Directors: Ben Pridmore
Technical Directors: Ben McIntyre
Replay Operator: Daniel Wood
Runner: Jono Daw
Graphics: Elizabeth Marie Smith
Music: Thomas Big Bear Saylor


MAJOR SPONSOR:
Power and Water Corporation

ALSO SUPPORTED BY:
Indigenous Eye Health Unit
Central Australian Aboriginal Congress
First Nations Foundation

THANK YOU TO:
AFLNT
CAFL
TIO
Alice Springs Town Council


© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2021

Bush Bands Bash: Karrku Reggae Band Full Set

Bush Bands Bash 2021: Jonathan Doolan & The Areyonga Band Full Set

The biggest celebration of Indigenous music in Central Australia.

This year's lineup features Docker River Band, Mr J Whiskey Trio, Wildfire Manwurrk Band, Eastern Arrernte Band, DESERT 7 HIPHOP, Jonathan Doolan and the Areyonga Band, Karrku Reggae Band, Moonlight Reggae, plus Divas: Ray Ray, Kirra Voller and Desmo Lewis

Welcome to Alice Springs, the lesbian metropolis of outback Australia, a place where black and white women mix and mingle. Satirical and funny, this revealing mockumentary asks the question: is it hard to sustain love when racial and cultural gaps seem insurmountable?

Through the expert guidance of Destiny Attenborough, an Aboriginal mock anthropologist, this hilarious film provides glimpses into the world of women who love women in Alice Springs.

'Jirraginy joo Goorrarndal: Frog and Brolga' is a story shared by the Gija Community. The Frog and Brolga, are Creation Ancestors for the Gija people who through an event at Gawarre (Bungle Bungles), brought into being the Gija landscape, plants, animals and the Gija people. Over 10 years in development, this animation has involved 60 Gija people, from the first drawings developed in 2009 at Purnululu School, to an entire school production in 2017. As part of recording the story, language workshops and on Country excursions were led by Elders. During on Country excursions, students listened to the story spoken in Gija and English and then storyboarded their vision. Students then explored the story site, recording sounds and images to support the creative interpretations of what they’d learnt from the Elders and community rangers. Back in community, students developed their illustrations, animations, utilised physical theatre, and sound design skills to develop their ideas into the film being shared.

Bush Bands Bash 2023 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

This short film is about how to say 'Belong To'' in one language from the Goldfields region of Western Australia. Join Mr. Nintipayi as he explains language each week.

Enjoy and check out GALCAC's YouTube channel for a new film each week!

Desert Pea Media are very proud to announce the long-awaited release of a collaborative music/ film production with JALI LALC and Ngyambul community members from Cabbage Tree Island on the North Coast of NSW.

The Cabbage Tree Island community has faced tremendous, ongoing hardship as the result of traumatic flood events across the region in 2022, forcing it's Indigenous community into temporary housing, while the ‘Cabbo’ community is completely rebuilt.

Initially invited to work with the ‘Cabbo’ community by JALI LALC on a short film/ documentary project title ‘NGUMBINY (HOME)’ – the project was so successful that the community acquired funding from NSW Government Regional NSW Children & Young People Wellbeing Recovery Initiative to produce a song/ music video that focused on the perspectives of young people.

The song, 'Wanna Go Home,' is a powerful, evocative reflection of the community's experience and highlights the strength and resilience of the young people of Cabbage Tree Island. Collaboratively written and produced by Desert Pea Media (featuring music by Adelaide-based artist JIMBLAH).

The projects have been made possible through the support of Jali Aboriginal Land Council, Desert Pea Media, NSW Government (Regional NSW Children & Young People Wellbeing Recovery Initiative), NSW Dept Aboriginal Affairs, Ballina Coast High School, M&K Business Solutions and Rous County Council.

Lyrics

The past feels like a dream, like it was almost forgotten
My life was full to the seams, my connection, belonging
My country, dance, and my song this feeling I belong
My culture it was strong since the beginning of time

The ships came along - with a gun and a bible
N what they did was wrong - at the point of a rifle
From arrival they been killing my mob - using yarndi and grog
All my old people wearing tags like a dog

Cabbos what we live for
Unity and family, our culture goin’ live on
There are stories in our river, our river (Ballun) sings the old songs
We tellers of our story, that’s why we gorn’ remain strong

It’s a feeling that the eyes can’t see
I dream of a place where I can be
Where the river meets the creek
My Island Home, still waiting for me.

Reppin the green and gold
Sunset through the cane smoke
Mudcrabs and mangroves
We just wanna go home

Reppin’ the green and gold
Sunsets through the cane smoke
Mudcrabs and mangroves
We just wanna go home

On the 2nd of March - we were torn through the heart
Mother Nature brought the water, ripped my family apart
We were left in the dark in the caravan park
(Brah) We lost our all our belongings, now we back to the start.

So be proud of who you are, we been dancing from the start
With our stories and art, Dreaming came from the stars
Believe we make a change; we’re changing up the past.
Breaking chains from off our heart bringing light to this dark

We got all this water flooding in our plains
And there is all these stories flowing in my veins
We’re rising up to the top that’s never found
And we keep getting pushed to the soil beneath the ground

Reppin’ the green and gold
Sunsets through the cane smoke
Mudcrabs and mangroves
We just wanna go home

Reppin’ the green and gold
Sunsets through the cane smoke
Mudcrabs and mangroves
We just wanna go home

We fight, we fight forever
We flow, we flow together
We stand, we stand forever
We stay, we stay forever

We’re fighting with the weather
We’re flowing with the river
We’re resilient,
And we keep on getting better

We fight, we fight forever
We flow, we flow together
We stand, we stand forever
We stay, we stay forever

We’re fighting with the weather
We’re flowing with the river
We’re resilient,
And we keep on getting better

CREDITS

Toby Finlayson - Project & Film Director/Camera/Editor/Co-Facilitator/Co-Writer/Co-Producer
Scott Large - General Manager/Co-Producer/Co-Facilitator/Photographer/Graphic Design
Daniel Glossop - Sound Engineer/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator
Jahvis Loveday - Film Co-Director/Camera/Co-Facilitator/Co-Writer
Jannali Doncaster - Co-Writer/Lead Facilitator
Juman Al-Ramahi - Co-Writer/ Vocal Coach/ Co-Facilitator
James Alberts (aka Jimblah) - Music Producer
Kylie Benge - Project Co-Producer
Kris Cook - Photographer
Nathaniel Sherwood - Audio Mixing/Mastering

Girls of the Napranum Kids Club from Weipa South in the north of Cape York peninsula perform dances from the South Pacific at the Laura Dance and Cultural Festival, Cape York, Far North Queensland, Australia, in 2001.

Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

A line up of some deadly Indigenous bands including:
Emu Rock,
Seaside Drifters,
The Family Shoveller Band (FSB),
MissGenius,
Yurti Band,
C.O.F.F.I.N,
Old Camp,
DARKSIDE and a whole lot more.

ICTV Community News February 2025 - Kintore Ranger Hub

Yirara News - YCTV Ep4 Term 1 2025

YiraraTV, So Good!

Iwantja Band Perform their song "I Want To Rock' at the Bush Bands Bash in Alice Springs, 2009.

An animated traditional children's dreaming story. It gives children a lesson about greed and the environment.

This is a story told by the people of Walmajarri and what the country means to them.

Baamba shares a mythical Broome story from his childhood.

Girls from Amoonguna, sing a song about keeping their culture strong and the hardships of living in a community when there is drinking and domestic violence, and how they want to break the cycle.

This story is about the mimi spirits and the mermaids who live at Beswick Falls. Participants interviewed each other after listening to elder Frankie Tango Lane, they then visited the site he had spoken to them about and shared their experience of it and took photographs to reflect what they were talking about. This process was supported by SharingStories facilitators as part of a school unit about history and culture. We encouraged teachers to consider an interpretation of that through songs, stories and paintings, historical narratives relevant to the children we were teaching. The stories that evolved were a combination of working to evolve culturally relvevant learning in the school space and the students and elders interpretations and stories about their own history.

Tjuntjuntjara community is located 660 km east of Kalgoorlie, in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia - it is considered one of the most remote communities in Australia.

The local people are known as 'the Spinifex People', who moved from their homelands (which range across the WA/ SA border) to Cundelee (160km east of Kalgoorlie) during British atomic testing at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960's - returning to their traditional country around Tjuntjuntjara in the mid 1980's.

'Tjuntjuntjara Tjukurpa was written, recorded and filmed over five days in partnership with Tjuntjuntjara Remote Community School in October 2013. The process involved close consultation with local elders, school students, staff and local community members.

'Tjuntjuntjara Tjukurpa is Pitjantjatjara language for 'Tjuntjuntjara Story' and celebrates the continuation and vitality of the Pitjantjatjara culture across the region, with references to the local Emu Dreaming story.
The story is also a celebration of local young people, and the importance of school attendance, health, and everybody contributing to a strong and healthy community.

Special thanks to Charlie and Tilly Klein, and the Tjuntjuntjara Remote School.

We pay our respects to the Pitjantjatjara people - traditional owners of the country from which this story was told.

*Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that photographs/videos may contain images of deceased persons, which may cause sadness or distress.

Filmed in Alice Springs at Treager Park, this CAFL Grand Final between Central Australia Country and the APY Lands was captured by the ICTV Live team.

This film is part 2 of the reverse role play filmed in the Supreme Court of Darwin.

CAFL 2017 Grand Final U/18's Ltyentye Apurte vs Papunya.

2017 CAFL Country League Grand Final: Sunday, 24 September 2017, Treager Park, ALice Springs.

Captured by the 2017 ICTV Live Team at Traeger Park: Kiara Bailey, Jamie Balfour, Gina Campbell, Ben McIntyre, Andre Sawenko and Micah Williams.

Special thanks to AFL Northern Territory and Andre Sawenko.

First Languages Australia short with Jacqueline Spurling speaking about the Wangkatja 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

First Languages Australia short with Des Crump speaking about the Kamilaroi 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

Derby band The Cruisers perform live at Saltwater Festival 2018 in Broome.

Waltja travelled to Engawala and Mount Liebig in support of the Kapaliku Ngurra Yirrintinguru project. The aim of the project is to support the transfer of Arrernte and Pintubi-Luritja culture and language and engage younger women in the transmission of traditional cultural practices.

The project is funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts (Indigenous Languages and Arts Program). Mount Liebig had chosen to work on a large canvas for painting but later decided they wanted to do the dancing and singing instead.

They also wanted to visit the traditional sites of senior women and record the songs. Most songs circled around the “Willy Wagtail dreaming” – the mountain range in the background of the camp and sites around it.

Engawala senior women chose traditional dance and song to teach younger women during a camp. They collected and carved sticks for the dances, red and white ochre for painting the sticks and at night the women danced.

A lot of community members walked down to the creek to be part of it, talk about it and learn. It has been an amazing camp out with the women dancing and singing until late at night. Women from Engawala and Mount Liebig were very happy and proud about sharing their culture, song and dances during those camps.

This video is about the Engawala Women's Ceremony.

Australia's Original Nations people suffer huge disadvantages, both culturally and socially. Many Original Nations people continue to feel the effects of generational trauma on a daily basis, critical rates of youth suicide (the highest in the world), low life expectancy, unemployment, cycles of incarceration, isolation and substance abuse. Desert Pea Media is a response to this.

Established in 2002, Desert Pea Media (DPM) is a registered charitable organisation that works with Indigenous young people in regional and remote areas of Australia using contemporary storytelling techniques and audio-visual media to foster important social and cultural dialogue. We work with Elders, young people, community leaders and local service providers to ensure our programs are relevant, engaging and appropriate to the needs of individuals and communities.
Over 17 years DPM has produced over 120 music videos and 17 documentaries for over 80 communities. Our YouTube channel has had over 2.7 million views.

Visual artist, activist and academic Lilla Watson, directly quoting Aboriginal activists from Queensland in the 1970s said ‘If you have come here to help me, you are wasting our time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.’

We believe that OUR cultural liberation as Australian people is bound up with the liberation of the Original Nations people of Australia. We cannot undo the past, but we can actively contribute to a respectful, truthful, aware, and ultimately positive future, for everyone. So let us all take responsibility, and work together to build an inclusive Australian culture that we can be proud of.

Filmed at various city and beach locations in Sydney, ‘Cool As Hell’ is directed by Gabriel Gasparinatos and features family members, brother Adam and father Josiah. This is the second time Josiah has guest appeared in a Baker Boy video clip. As the original Baker Boy, Danzal’s father guest appeared in his previous music clip ‘Marryuna feat. Yirrmal (“Dance”)’. The song was only last week nominated for APRA Song of the Year for 2018.

Bush Bands Bash 2019: Mutitjulu Band-Wati Kutju

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

Waredj: Hurry up or be quick

Liz Kelly-Hunter teaches 22 words of Nyul Nyul Language spoken on the Dampier Peninsula.

King of Hearts bring their sweet sounds in support of Footprince, returning for one more big gig after more than twenty years. They're sure to make you move in honour of 2021 Survival Day.

Tunu Smith - One and only Kungka live at the PY Media Studio.

Bush Bands Bash: Docker River Band Full Set

Not sure why it is so hard to say your name, but boy did we have fun !

A Welcome song and dance by young girls from Thurday Island, in the Torres Strait Islands, at the start of the Croc Festival, a festival with participants of indigenous schools in northern Queensland, held on Thursday Island in 2001.

STOMPEM GROUND 1998 - Warumpi Band: From The Bush

Try this for your next feed of Curry whether at home or camping ?
Ingredients:
- Keens Curry powder (very important)
- 500g diced chuck beef
- (1) whole brown onion (halved and sliced)
- (1) medium carrot (sliced)
- (2) small/medium potatoes (peeled & diced)
- frozen peas
- garlic paste
- ginger paste
- dried coriander leaves
- Garam Masala powder (about a teaspoon)
- Italian tin whole peeled tomatoes
- salt & coarse black pepper
- Ghee butter
- water
Rice:
- jasmine rice
- turmeric powder
- chicken stock powder
Method as per the video, be sure to measure with your heart ❤️
Enjoy! ?

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 binoculars and shooting the planes down, the dancers falling on the ground like the planes crashing. This was filmed in 1987.

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

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 drumming is heard.

Men from Lajamanu, an Aboriginal community about 550 kilometres south west of Katherine on the edge of the Tanami Desert are painted up and perform "purlapa", men's corroboree, at dusk. This was recorded with an old 8 mm film camera, so the technical quality is poor.

Merne Mwerre is a celebration of keeping tyerrtye (body) and utnenge (spirit) strong by eating good food and connecting to Apmere (Country).

Merne Mwerre, translating to ‘Good Food’ in English, was filmed in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) at Olive Pink Botanical Gardens with a number of incredibly talented First Nations local community members including Edmond Doolan, Jarrel Williams, Monisha Martin Turner and Carol Turner. The music video portrays two First Nations children learning the power that comes from merne mwerre and how bush tucker can be found on Country.

Merne Mwerre was written and sung by first-time songwriter Edmond Doolan, an Arrernte man from Anapipe (Sandy Bore) north of Alice Springs and Arrernte leader for Children’s Ground's Men’s and Youth team. The song is sung in both Eastern/Central Arrernte and English. 

Merne Mwerre is taken from the Arrernte language children’s album Ampe-mape Alyelheme (Kid’s Sing (https://open.spotify.com/artist/7H4Ki..., released in 2023. Ampe-mape Alyelheme (Kid’s Sing) was an undertaking by Children’s Ground to remedy the lack of children's music available in Arrernte language. Active since 2021, the Children’s Ground music project has been supported by contributions from founding member of The Cat Empire Harry Angus, Tinpan Orange’s Emily Lubitz and artists, families and educators local to Central Australia.

The music video was produced in collaboration with, and support from, Lemon Tree Media and Productions, Bill Raby Diabetes Fellowship, Australian Government Indigenous Language and Arts Program and ABC Kids.

Health and Wellbeing is one of the five key service platforms delivered by Children’s Ground in First Nations communities. This includes health promotion and prevention, nutrition, environmental health and support to access clinical health services, social and emotional wellbeing and traditional healing. The Health and Wellbeing platform aims to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children, their families, and the broader community. This includes recognising, respecting, and privileging local cultural knowledge systems and practices, and the agency of First Nations people. Visit https://childrensground.org.au/ for more information.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

UTULU KUTJU

Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

Seaside Drifters is a local community band from Mijilmilmia approximately 170klm’s south of Broome. All the members hail from the Karajarri tribe and they are a party band who gives great rock n roll and reggae music.

Seaside Drifters are saltwater people and they live off the sea and so the name reflects their connection to country, the sea and the associated hunting and gathering lifestyle. This is a metaphor for the band hunting and gathering a large fan base which they have been very successful in gaining a following throughout the Kimberley.

Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

A line up of some deadly Indigenous bands including:
Emu Rock,
Seaside Drifters,
The Family Shoveller Band (FSB),
MissGenius,
Yurti Band,
C.O.F.F.I.N,
Old Camp,
DARKSIDE and a whole lot more.

Yirara News - YCTV Ep3 Term 1 2025

YiraraTV, So Good!

This is an old video from 1987 of traditional Inma Dance & a dance Festival at Amata.

In this "Doggie Days' episode, the Sacred Heart School kids find themselves daydreaming in class about going hunting on the beach.

Gideon Gardiner shows us his skills as a guitarist in this music video.

Music video performed by Alpurrurulam Youth for their song 'We're Not Leaving'

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

Music video for kids

Fitzroy Xpress performing Home Sweet Home

Passages from the Bible describe God as the Father, God as the Son and God as the Holy Spirit with accompanying songs by Indigenous artists and illustrated with Bible Story pictures and scenery photographs from Australian Outback communities.

Spear of Destiny' was written, recorded and shot in just four days in Townsville, QLD as part of the Song Nation 2013 storytelling tour of Australia.

Uncle Alfred Smallwood is an Indigenous elder and community leader in Townsville, QLD who is creating real change for young men in his community.

Uncle Alfred's Men's Group is a volunteer service for young men caught up in the justice system, and who are trying to re-engage with community, culture and country and break the cycle of sentencing.

There is a focus on cultural mentoring, on 'reclaiming your spear' and taking responsibility for yourself and your family. This song and music video was created over four days in October 2013, to help spread Uncle Alfred's important message.

We would like to pay our respect to the people of the Bindal & Wulgurukaba, traditional owners of the country upon which this song was made.

Special thanks to Uncle Alfred Smallwood and Aunty Gail Mabo, Jane Westlake, Joel Westlake, Toby Finlayson, and of course all the Warriors from Uncle Alfred's Men's Group.

Family Shovellor Band performing at the Nguyuru Warringarrem Masic Festival in Halls Creek 2013.

John Bennett in the Ngaarda Radio studio singing Tapping Sticks.
NAIDOC celebrations.

Life for traditional Aboriginal people is governed by law. Pitjantjatjara call it Tjukurpa, Kuku Yalanji say Ngujukurra. All Aboriginal languages have a word for it. It holds the knowledge of where to find food, how to act towards others, when to continue cultural learning, and why it is important to live a good life. It governs the privileges and responsibilities of each person that together make up society, ensuring that family and community are cared for and country is maintained standing up alive. 
Two men from different parts of Australia come together as brothers and follow a Rainbow Serpent Dreaming journey. Rainbow Serpent, or Wanampi to Pitjantjatjara and Yarru to Kuku Yalanji, is the regenerative power that makes country stand up alive. It is the power source that brings fertility and abundance to all living things, plants, animal, people and country. 
The brothers are on a quest to revitalise and maintain knowledge of Tjukurpa for the next generation. Their meeting with senior lawmen with responsibility for Wanampi Tjukurpa, in the heart of Australia culminates at a sacred waterhole, home of Wanampi to this day. From there Wanampi moves about country even within the cities and suburbs, aware not only of Aboriginal people but of white people too. Wanampi contains the spiritual power that permeates country even where people have no knowledge of its existence.
As the journey moves to the Laura Dance Festival in North Queensland it becomes a rallying point for cultural regeneration for all Australians.

This video clip is taken from the official and all original soundtrack to OUR PLACE created by Thomas 'Tom Tom' Saylor. This emotional live performance of 'Like He Said' was captured at the Amoonguna On Screen event in Alice Springs. Our Place music director and desert music production legend Thomas 'Tom Tom' Saylor was a crowd favourite from the event.

This live recording has been supplemented with footage from Episode One of OUR PLACE, with some beautiful shots of the cast and community.

Help ICTV finish Our Place by donating to the Our Place crowd funding campaign. There are great rewards available, even a soundtrack from the man himself.

http://www.pozible.com/ourplace

***All music contained within this video is original Thomas 'Tom Tom Big Bear' Saylor Desert Audio!

Highlight single from Bush Bands Bash 2016 from the performance of Lajamanu Teenage Band.

Short campfire horror drama about the Cake Monster.

Filmed as part of the Mimosa Studio Project in Woorabinda for Tropfest Junior 2013.
Written by Terry Sullivan and Jobe Adams
Filmed by Amber Adams
Directed by Jobe Adams

CAFL Division One Grand Final 2016 between Western Arranda and Ltyentye Apurte.

This game was captured by the ICTV LIVE team in August 2016 in Alice Springs at Traeger Park.

Special thanks to our sponsors for this event: Centre Bush Bus, CAFL and Quitline.

Dhinawan' is the Kamileroi word for 'emu', and the song title refers to an ancient Kamileroi constellation etched into the negative space of the milky way. A powerful and sacred Indigenous songline, the Dhinawan story shifts and changes as it travels from nation to nation, and is the foundation of this particular production.

Written, recorded and filmed over 5 days in June 2016 in the remote community of Walgett in Northwest NSW, 'Dhinawan Touch the Stars' is an outcome of a Desert Pea Media community project with a group of young Indigenous people enrolled at Walgett Community College.

The project came about through a partnership between Desert Pea Media, Outback Arts and the James N Kirby Foundation.

Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encouraged participants to analyze 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for individuals, for each other and for our communities.

This video shows Violet Wadrill Nanaku and Biddy Wavehill Yamawurr Nangala collecting and preparing kilipi (bush bananas).

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).

First Languages Australia short with Ken Smith speaking about the Kokatha 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

Realtone and Save the Children came together with TDC's media mob (WadeyeTV) to create some music video's. Here is "Kangathi Nanki Yu" by Mark Parmbuk

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

All 4 Adventure: An adventure travel show -Three Part Series.

More info: unleashed.tv

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

The Kuckles: Bran Nue Dae

The Watarrka Foundation is proud to present the annual Sports and Storytelling Festival. The festival is held at the Watarrka School in Lilla near Kings Canyon.

This year over 40 children from Lilla, Finke School in Finke River, and the Utju Areyonga School came together to participate in sporting activities, traditional cultural activities and drama / performance workshops.

An important outcome of the festival is to help the children from these regional communities connect with each other and get excited about education.

The main organisations powering this year’s event are Dentons, Westpac, Poetry in Action, The Watarrka Foundation, Remote Tours and NT AFL.

The agents of A.F.E.C.O. investigate an outbreak of rogue post-humans at a mining site in rural Australia. Zero-Point discovers there is more to the story than meets the eye.

ZERO-POINT: SEASON ZERO introduces to the world the first Indigenous hero; packed full of suped up terrorists, over-regulated superheroes, addictive “super-drugs”, Government lies and action-packed fight scenes. Filled with political subtext mirroring many contemporary social issues including the on-going fight for sovereignty of our First Nations people and the fallout of the top secret Maralinga Nuclear tests.

Based on the original comic book by writer/director Jonathon Saunders, ZERO-POINT features an all-star cast with award-winning actor MARK COLE-SMITH (The Drover’s Wife, Last Cab to Darwin, Picnic at Hanging Rock); as ZERO-POINT; STEPHEN OLIVER (Black Comedy) as the post-human terrorist SAMSON; and EBONY MCGUIRE (Yirra-Yaakin & Ilbijerri Theatre Company) as WING COMMANDER.

ICTV's Community Bulletin Board, changes each week to advertise community events. This week begins 13th June, 2019

Featuring the new ICTV Emu Graphics style, and original music by Cassi Williams.

-Kungka Tjuta - Kintore SYW

How to make bush medicine
Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed the CLC to re-imagine their IPA Plan of Management, an English-heavy guide book for looking after the IPA. The brief was to create a lush digital resource using spoken Warlpiri that could be accessed both online and offline to mirror the content of the management plan and be navigated through voice commands. The CLC’s hope is that the IPA digital storybooks will help all Warlpiri – from elders to school children – to better understand and support the work to keep country healthy and culture strong. The CLC has made digital storybooks for both the Southern Tanami and the Northern Tanami IPAs. See www.ngurra.org and www.walyalku.org.au

The Bush Bands Bash ('BBB') program requires all participating bands to attend a 4 day professional development camp called 'Bush Bands Bash Business' held at Ross River Resort. The camp is held in a lead up to the main event, which this year took place on Sunday 8th September 2019.

This year the Mala Band from Amata successfully applied to attend the BBB. They went to Bush Bands Bash Business camp. They were also joined by their Anangu brothers from Docker River Band and Mutitjulu Band along with several other bands from across the country.

In 2019 PY Media once again actively supported the Bush Bands Bash program and attended, not just the main event, but also the last two days of the camp held in Ross River Resort in the Northern Territory in Australia.

On Saturday 7th September 2019, PY Media spoke with the Mala Band. Here are some of the band members' thoughts on the camp experience. Wirunya.

Event: Bush Bands Bash Business / Camp
Major Sponsor: MusicNT

Language: English and Pitjantjatjara Language

Music in the Video

The first song 'Island Music' by the Eylandt Band was recorded unplugged at the fireside at the camp on Friday 6th Sept 2019.

The second song 'Dream Girl' by the Mala Band was recorded live at the main Bush Bands Bash event held at the Telegraph Station in Alice Springs on Sunday 8th September 2019.

Bush Bands Bash 2019: Mala Band-Dream Girl

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

ICTV's Community Bulletin Board, changes each week to advertise community events. This week begins 13th February, 2020

Featuring the new ICTV Emu Graphics style, and original music by Cassi Williams.

Recorded at Saltwater Music Festival 2018, Broome, WA.

Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.

Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung language, even though there are no equivalent sounds in English.

We had no written language so early settlers wrote down what they heard using their own language trying to reproduce the sounds.

In this series of short films we correct some of the language spelling of the places we all know and explain the meaning behind our stories.

Language needs a place to live, and this is a chance for us to tell our stories and our language.

Our language is sleeping, but will soon reawaken.

This video tells the story of how our Wadawurrung people were created by Bunjil, our spirit creator, at Kareet Bareet, now known as Black Hill near Gordon, not far from Ballaarat. This area was once covered in forest but is now largely a farming community, mainly of potatoes, due to the rich volcanic soils. That is why the Wadawurrung are known as the red soil people.

Story: Bryon Powell
Producers: Tammy Gilson & Larissa Romensky
Animation: Stephanie Skinner
Actors: Indigo Harrison

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

King of Hearts bring their sweet sounds in support of Footprince, returning for one more big gig after more than twenty years. They're sure to make you move in honour of 2021 Survival Day.

WINTJALANGU SAINTS VS INDULKANA TIGERS
SAFNL APY League
Round 7 Highlights

2021 TIO CAFL Community Senior Men's Div 1 Elimination Final: Ti Tree vs Ltyentye Apurte live from TIO Traeger Park on Sunday 22 August. #territoryfooty (C) 2021 AFLNT Ltd. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced by any means without the express permission of the rights holder.

Produced by Indigenous Community Television Limited (ICTV)

© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2021


Commentary Stan Coombe & Joe Clarke

Executive Producer: Rita Cattoni
Producer: Ashley Renehan
Line Producer: Andre Sawenko
Production Manager: Joshua Davis
Camera: Lorena Walker
Camera: Jason Mathews
Camera: William Thomson
Camera: James Balfour

Technical Directors: Ben Pridmore
Technical Directors: Ben McIntyre
Replay Operator: Daneil Wood
Runner: Jono Daw
Graphics: Elizabeth Marie Smith
Music: Thomas Big Bear Saylor


MAJOR SPONSOR:
Power and Water Corporation

ALSO SUPPORTED BY:
Indigenous Eye Health Unit
Central Australian Aboriginal Congress
First Nations Foundation

THANK YOU TO:
AFLNT
CAFL
TIO
Alice Springs Town Council


© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2021

2021 TIO CAFL Community Senior Men's Div 1 Semi Final 2: Ti Tree vs Papunya live from TIO Traeger Park on Sunday 29 August. #territoryfooty (C) 2021 AFLNT Ltd. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced by any means without the express permission of the rights holder.

Produced by Indigenous Community Television Limited (ICTV)

© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2021


Commentary Stan Coombe & Joe Clarke

Executive Producer: Rita Cattoni
Producer: Ashley Renehan
Line Producer: Andre Sawenko
Production Manager: Joshua Davis
Camera: Lorena Walker
Camera: Jason Mathews
Camera: William Thomson
Camera: James Balfour

Technical Directors: Ben Pridmore
Technical Directors: Ben McIntyre
Replay Operator: Daneil Wood
Runner: Jono Daw
Graphics: Elizabeth Marie Smith
Music: Thomas Big Bear Saylor


MAJOR SPONSOR:
Power and Water Corporation

ALSO SUPPORTED BY:
Indigenous Eye Health Unit
Central Australian Aboriginal Congress
First Nations Foundation

THANK YOU TO:
AFLNT
CAFL
TIO
Alice Springs Town Council


© AFL Northern Territory Limited 2021

PY Media - Radio 5NPY - Tunu Smith and the New Beat Band - Sunset Dreaming live in the APY lands Facebook live
Tunu Smith and the New Beat Band playing their song Sunset Dreaming live on PY Media’s LIVE STAGE last night, here on the APY Lands.

Bush Bands Bash 2021: Jeremy Whiskey Full Set

Yajilarra Concert 2021

Munumburra 1998: Archie Roach - Mother's Heart Beat

A desert reggae song promoting good eye health so you can see all the Colours of your Country. A collaboration between Kintore Community and Red Dust Role Models.

2022 TIO CAFL GRAND Final - Senior Men: South v's Pioneer 10/9/22

Indigenous Outreach Project would like to give a massive thank you to MacDonnell Regional Council for the opportunity to deliver our our IOP Dance & Music Video Project in Papunya (Warumpi), Northern Territory. Also giving a big thank you to Sam, from Mac Youth Services, for organising everything on the ground and making sure it all ran smoothly.

To all the adults in the community that helped in the School as well as the youth and community members that were in this video, we couldn't have done it without you.

Red Dust Role Models visited Groote Eylandt

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

The Red Dust Strong Young Women’s Program: Kiwirrkurra 13th Sept 2023

The Kungkas in Kiwirrkurra have never had the opportunity to write and record their own song and produce a video.

With the 40th anniversary of the Kiwirrkurra Community happening in 2024, the kungkas were keen to have their voices heard amongst the celebrations and draw attention to their experiences and love of country.

With this in mind, local kungkas Jinika, Joan, Derica, Janita, Eldisha, Ninega, Gabriella, Fatima, Glenys and Saunders, met with Pintupi woman Jodie, Red Dust SYW coordinator Jessie, Red Dust’s videographer Wheeler and Realtone’s Steve to write their song and plan their video.
All the kungkas were keen to sing up their country.

Thanks to Julian and the team at Tjamu Tjamu PBC for the accommodation, use of the troopy, organising the space to record, and generous support for the project.

Filmed on Pintupi country with permission.

SING OUR COUNTRY WITH LOVE

Verse 1
We walk at sunset every afternoon
The red rocks glow, across the sand dunes
Yarning stories of the land
Until the night comes again

Chorus:
Ngurra nganampa, tali ngururrpa
Kanyini Kiwirrkurra nya
Ngurra nganampa, tali ngururrpa
Kanyini Kiwirrkurra nya
Tjamu ku, kapili ku
Kanyila ngurra
Tjamu ku, kapili ku
Kanyila ngurra
Palyinanku

Verse 2:
Now we sit by the fire together
As our people have done forever
Watch the milky way stars above
Sing our country with love


Verse vocals: Joan (verses 1 & 2) Niningka: (verse 2)
Chorus vocals: Jinika, Joan, Derica, Janita, Eldisha, Niningka, Gabriella, Fatima, Glenys and Saunders
Keyboard: Jinika
Drums: Christopher Tolsen
(drums recorded in the Red Dust Office… thanks to Christopher for recording drums for the Kungkas)

Technical Details:
Strong Young Women’s Program Coordinator: Jessie Bartlett
Audio Production: Steve Lane (www.realtone.com.au)
Mastering: Joseph Carra (www.crystalmastering.com.au)
Video production: Brett Wheeler

ICTV Community News Segment - Warlpiri Repatriation

Beautiful Yuendumu: Collaborative Murals Illuminate Community Spirit (Warlpiri)

Mud Brick Milestone: Wilya Janta's Update on Indigenous Housing Development (Warlpiri)

ICTV's Community Bulletin Board changes each week to advertise community events.

Follow Ranger Ebonee, a proud Wadawurrung woman, through Wurdi Youang/You Yangs Regional Park as she describes the importance of connecting to and caring for Country.

You Yangs Regional Park is part of an Aboriginal cultural landscape in the traditional Country of the Wadawurrung People. Parks Victoria respects the deep and continuing connection that Wadawurrung Traditional Owners have to these lands and waters, and we recognise their ongoing role in caring for Country.

Seaside Drifters is a local community band from Mijilmilmia approximately 170klm’s south of Broome. All the members hail from the Karajarri tribe and they are a party band who gives great rock n roll and reggae music.

Seaside Drifters are saltwater people and they live off the sea and so the name reflects their connection to country, the sea and the associated hunting and gathering lifestyle. This is a metaphor for the band hunting and gathering a large fan base which they have been very successful in gaining a following throughout the Kimberley.

Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

A line up of some deadly Indigenous bands including:
Emu Rock,
Seaside Drifters,
The Family Shoveller Band (FSB),
MissGenius,
Yurti Band,
C.O.F.F.I.N,
Old Camp,
DARKSIDE and a whole lot more.

The weekly sneak peek of new videos on ICTV,

Today we went fishing out at Langi Crossing for Barramundi (using live bait), not unfortunately we didn't have any luck.

We did however get to finally see the massive resident saltwater crocodile though! We were stoked about that and still enjoyed the beautiful location even though we didn't catch the targeted fish.

Video showing what happened at the 21st Birthday and Launch of ICTV at Djarindjin.

No Safe Amount - The Growing Brain is a campaign by the NPY council to promote awareness about some of the dangers of alcohol.

A Mythical Broome Story about a hairy man who frightened Bamba when he was a child.

Mona Oscar explains how she would go with her mother to collect buch tucker and bush medicine in Bunuba Country.

Some of the fellas from Beagle Bay sing the song, "Hurt No More."

Tjukupati Iratjari, Yvonne Yibarti, Janie Miama tell a traditional story in language from Docker River. (Two Sisters)

West African band, Tinariwen, put on a concert for the people of Amata.

Mission celebration of feast day with choir and ceremony

This video is a great lesson in Pitjantjatjara language translating words for eyes. mouth, nose, hair etc into English language

The Saltwater Band Live In Concert

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

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

Hip hop video of Kuprilya Races from a young persons perspective. Poetry became a hip hop audio track became a music video - easy!

This movie is about the bush medicines the kids learnt about that grow in their country. They learnt what they were good for and how to say them in language.

One Moment at a Time is a music Video made for the indigenous group called RAYELLA. RAYELLA is made up of father and daughter duo Raymond and Eleanor Dixon from the remote community of Marlinja. This song is a message to Eleanor's grandfather, thanking him for passing on his strong and proud culture.

This Heywire Video Postcard is Tennant Creek Local (NT, Australia) Dion Beasley to his friend Policeman Dan. Created by MEDIA MOB

'Amazing Grace' is taken from Gurrumul's latest release 'The Gospel Album' out now.

Our youngest actors put together a film...

Perfomed by Stanley Gaykamangu at Bak'bididi Ramingining Festival 2015, with a presentation at the Gatjirrk Milingimbi Festival 2015, recognising his achievement winning the NT Music Awards Pop song of the year for 2015.

When Dion and Mali skip school, a mark is left on Lionel's important visit from the Minister.
Celine takes the kids to Hope's house after a fight with Napanangka, and Dion and Mali skip school. This leads to an unexpected surprise for Lionel during his very important meeting with the Minister after the two wagging kids leave their mark on Lionel’s dream for a new grandstand at the Alangkwa football oval.

Written by Warren H Williams.

First Languages Australia short with Diane McNaboe speaking North/West Wiradjuri.

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.

First Languages Australia short with Gail Harradine speaking Wergaia.

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.

"Punmu is a lovely place to live ... we've got everything we need out here." Cass Nanudie.

Punmu is a remote community situated in the Rundall River National Park in the Pilbara region, WA.

It has an average transient population of about 150 people, mostly Martu (and some white fellas).

From small beginnings 30 years ago, Punmu is now a well established remote community with an office, a general store and school.

Catch a slice of Martu life in 2 minutes.

A group of kids go for a walk to the local waterhole until they realise they are being watched by someone or something ?

Filmed by NG Media and the Wingellina School. This film concept and production was created by the Wingellina School kids.

ICTV's Community Bulletin Board, changes each week to advertise community events. This week begins on 9th March, 2017

Featuring the new ICTV Cockatoo Graphics style, and original music by Thomas Big Bear Saylor.

Ltyentye Apurte vs Ti Tree (Country U18)

2017 CAFL Country and Community Cup: Easter Sunday, 16th April.

Captured by the 2017 ICTV Live Team at Traeger Park: Joshua Davis, Kiara Bailey, Gina Campbell, Christopher Fitzpatrick, Jamie Balfour, Ben Pridmore, and Ben McIntyre.

Special thanks to AFL Northern Territory.

Bush Bands Bash 2017: Tjupi Band - Radio.

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

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.

First Languages Australia short with Con Miller speaking about the Wirangu 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

Christmas Greetings from Irene Nangala

Let's talk about the use of fire in the old days and remember the skills.

Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) committee members directed the CLC to re-imagine their IPA Plan of Management, an English-heavy guide book for looking after the IPA. The brief was to create a lush digital resource using spoken Warlpiri that could be accessed both online and offline to mirror the content of the management plan and be navigated through voice commands. The CLC’s hope is that the IPA digital storybooks will help all Warlpiri – from elders to school children – to better understand and support the work to keep country healthy and culture strong. The CLC has made digital storybooks for both the Southern Tanami and the Northern Tanami IPAs. See www.ngurra.org and www.walyalku.org.au

Bush Bands Bash 2019: Tjupi Band Tribute-My Angel

Bush Bands Bash is a foot stomping musical celebration under the starry desert sky. Played to an audience of thousands the concert is the biggest annual showcase of Aboriginal desert music in Australia. Presented by MusicNT, the Bush Bands Bash concert is the culmination of an intensive music and industry skills camp for remote musicians from the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Working with inspiring national mentors and industry heavyweights; bands hone their craft and polish their skills ready to perform at the concert.

More info: https://www.musicnt.com.au

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

When you think about the names of towns and landmarks in the area where you live, how many of them have Aboriginal names? And what do you know about the meaning of those names?

According to author and historian Bruce Pascoe, 60-70% of Australian place names are Aboriginal, and embedded in those names is an intimate knowledge of the land and its history.

Pascoe is a Bunurong, Punniler panner and Yuin man who lives on the southern end of Yuin country, near Mallacoota.

He is one of the people behind ABC’s This Place project, capturing the meaning behind Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander place names around Australia. He talks about the inspiration for the project, the cultural significance of the land he lives on, and the meaning behind the name Mallacoota, and the rich system of rivers where he lives.

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

Nguthungulli is the creator of the land and water around Byron Bay. When he finished he went to rest in the ocean cave at Julian Rocks. Brother and sister Norm Graham and Delta Kay share the dreaming story and what it means to them.

Nhanda is a Midwest language spoken in the region from Geraldton to the Murchison River, yet very few people speak it fluently today.

In an attempt to stimulate and invigorate the sleeping language, a number of resources have been recently produced, in the hope that more people will learn the language for generations to come.

Linguist Rosie Sitorus who works at Irra Wangga Language Centre said: "We've created some posters primarily as a teaching tool for schools and homes, so that kids can look at it every day and they can start to be aware of the words and be proud of them."

The Irra Wangga Language team has been working quite extensively with the Nhanda people, in particular with Nhanda elder Clayton Drage and his daughter Colleen.

"We were never taught the language and I always wanted to speak Nhanda," Colleen Drage said.

"Speaking language should be part of our everyday life. I wish I could sit with someone one day and have a conversation with them in Nhanda language, that would be lovely."

One of the foundations to keep any language alive is storytelling, listening and recording those stories in language. Stories are really important and help to ensure languages like Nhanda are kept up-to-date and easily available for people to learn.

"Everyone who cares about representing the Nhanda language and culture should have these kinds of resources available," Rosie said.

"It's about trying to ensure people are proud of the language and that it's important and worthwhile."

ABC Open Producer: Chris Lewis

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

During NAIDOC week this year, ABC Open Producer Jeff Licence spent a day in Ballina on the NSW North Coast connecting with indigenous language teacher Rick Cook, the Bundjalung language and the local community.

Jeff held an ABC Open Mother Tongue stall, inviting anyone who came along to choose a Bundjalung word, write it on a blackboard with the English translation and pose for a photograph.

Alongside the Photographs, Rick Cook describes his experience with rediscovering and teaching the Bundjalung language.

The result is a lovely collection of Bundjalung words, faces and ideas about indigenous language.

If you want to know more about the back-story to this, read Jeff's blog.

Many thanks to interviewee Rick Cook and volunteers Ghita Fiorelli and Jaya Morphett.
Music: Sunrise over Alice by Michael Fix
Photography and Editing by Jeff Licence

This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.

BAMfest has become a tradition during the annual Desert Harmony Festival, which brings musicians from all over the Barkly region to perform their music together.

This documentary looks at the musicians performing at BAMfest, the people who work on the festival and the release of the local Barkly Drifter's debut album 'We Are One'


Credits:

Produced By: Barkly Arts

Interview:
Warren H Williams
Reggie O'Riley
Elenor Dixon
Ray Dixon
James Winwood
Stuart Liddell
Joseph Shannon

Camera:
Adrian Reinhardt
William Thomson

Edited:
William Thomson

Music:
Barkly Drifters

Our Bedtime Stories 2, Episode 1: Winkarra Jurttanti (Grandmother Made of Stone)

Story by Rosemary 'Narrurlu' Plummer in the Warumungu language. This episode was produced by Barkly Regional Arts in Tennant Creek, NT.

Our Bedtime Stories presents stories for children in Indigenous languages, using traditional storytelling techniques together with animation, music and film. The Our Bedtime Stories series is much more than a parenting tool to get kids to sleep. The series is helping to preserve Indigenous languages across Australia.

Season 2 of the series has been produced by ICTV in partnership with Barkly Regional Arts, Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media (PAKAM), Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre, and Elizabeth Langslow working with the Warruwi Community on Goulburn Island.

ICTV, showing our way.

Our Bedtime Stories 2, Episode 12: Mamu (Yulparija Monster Story)

Story by Merridoo Walbidi in the Yulparija language. This episode was produced by Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media (PAKAM) in Bidyadanga, WA.

Our Bedtime Stories presents stories for children in Indigenous languages, using traditional storytelling techniques together with animation, music and film. The Our Bedtime Stories series is much more than a parenting tool to get kids to sleep. The series is helping to preserve Indigenous languages across Australia.

Season two of the series has been produced by ICTV in partnership with Barkly Regional Arts, Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media (PAKAM), Goldfields Aboriginal Language Centre, and Elizabeth Langslow working with the Warruwi Community on Goulburn Island.

ICTV, showing our way.

Eylandt band is from the remote community of Angurugu Situated on Groote Eylandt in East Arnhemland Northern Territory Australia. Here they are performing the song Abudikba they have performed live in many Festivals across the Northern Territory including Garma and Barunga.

This video clip was filmed in Angurugu School and edited by Joewah as part of the ALC Amp Music Program otherwise known as JUST DO IT PRODUCTIONS, the band are really cool cats, this song is the echo version none echo version coming soon. Enjoy.

Eylandt Bands song called Mamarika - Song recorded at Angurugu Studio Film clip put together by the Anindilyakwa Land Council Music and Media Programs with a lot of editing done by Alveston Lalara- Eylandt band dancers and Angurugu School Senior and Primary boys.

Official opening of the Garrtjambal Auditorium

Saturday 4th August, 2018

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Featuring the ICTV Hawk Graphics style.

King of Hearts bring their sweet sounds in support of Footprince, returning for one more big gig after more than twenty years. They're sure to make you move in honour of 2021 Survival Day.

King of Hearts bring their sweet sounds in support of Footprince, returning for one more big gig after more than twenty years. They're sure to make you move in honour of 2021 Survival Day.

ICTV Community News Performance by Warren H Williams of his song called Family live in the Studio.

IHHP music video crew once again returned to the community of Angurugu on Groote Eylandt for a follow up to their previous music video 'Our Time, Our Story'. This year the community and Angurugu School along with the support of East Arnhem Regional Council Sport and Rec, Bush Fit

IOP were gifted with the opportunity to listen, learn and explore the local landscape. We were especially honoured to be educated by the Elders about sacred dreamings of the land. From these teachings the students wrote about some of these dreamtime stories they learnt about in the lyrics of this song.

With a powerful chorus written in language it translates to:
'We love our home, we love this land
Walking together hand in hand
Culture is strong, culture is important'

The IOP Team would like to send a big thank you to all the elders, staff and youth of the community for coming together to make this video possible.

Remote School Attendance Strategy (RSAS) engaged Indigenous Outreach Projects to work alongside Gunbalanya School and the Community during their wet season.

NO SHAME | BE PROUD | RESPECT

STOMPEM GROUND 1998 - Ashley Ooobagooma (Featuring Fitzroy Xpress): Time To Think It Over

Stompem Ground 1992 - Blast From The Past - Bran Nue Dae Original Cast singing Nothing I Would Rather Be

STOMPEM GROUND 2022 - King of Hearts

STOMPEM GROUND 2022 - King of Hearts

This short film looks at saying 'I' and 'me' in Goldfields First Nations languages. Enjoy and check out our YouTube channel for more new films each week!

2023 GRID PROMO: Young Way

Welcome to the ICTV Programming Grid. The Programming Grid shows the different categories of videos playing on ICTV throughout the week. A different colour represents a different category.

Young Way is Yellow and features videos from kids and young people.

If you have a video you'd like to see on ICTV, please contact us.
ICTV Showing Our Way.

Yajilarra Festival 14th-15th July 2023

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 language, please understand if there are
areas that may not be perfect, we are all still learners in the space of language and cultural
preservation.
Thank you to all the people who from around Tiwi communities who permitted the use of
their visual portraits in this video.

Verse 1
My country comes from the place my dad belongs
On my fathers’ side, where my totem’s from
Where it feels like home
Where I feel at peace
When my time has come
- set my spirit free
Tiwi tribes, strong in our culture
Carry the songs past down from the elders
Yimpinari, pumpuni japinari Yimpinari (where the) good morning to
Kapi Malawu ampi-kingartami Malawu (where the) sunsets over water

Chorus
Ngawa-ampi nga maniguwi wuta Our grandparents have taught us
Pirri-minu waluwa Our language/story
Nginingawula Ngirramini
Nginingawula Ngirramini

Verse 2
Pili-awarra ngawurraningurumangi So that we keep our language and
Ngini nuka nginti mata ngili parra. never forget about the language we
Kapi ngawampi speak that come from our grandparents
Amintiya ngaw a ngintinirimi
wantirrana ngirramini Ngini ngampangira
Tiwi culture we be keeping it strong
Got my elders there, we’ll be singing along
My elders, they’re my inspiration,
teaching us knowledge for the next generation

Ngawa awungarra turrampila ngamirri ngunjupunji ngaya Here we are dancing together
mirratigiyi
Ngawa awungarra turrampila ngamirri ngunjupunji ngaya Here we are dancing together
mirratigiyi

Chorus x 2
Ngawa-ampi nga maniguwi wuta
Pirri-minu waluwa
Nginingawula Ngirramini
Nginingawula Ngirramini

BBB23 is a unique event that celebrates the richness of First Nations music and culture, promising an unforgettable night of music, unity, positivity and diversity.

From a record number of entries the following bands have been selected to showcase their musical excellence and cultural heritage at Bush Bands Bash 2023:

Yellow Nation (From Ramingining singing in Yolngu Matha dialects: Gupapuyngu - Djambarrpuyngu & English): Known for their captivating performances and powerful lyrics, Yellow Nation brings a contemporary edge to traditional sounds, bridging the gap between past and present.
Pele (From Thursday Island singing in English): Be enthralled and deeply moved by this powerhouse singer/songwriter from Thursday Island performing her upbeat and original R&B & pop influenced songs.
Mulga Bore Hard Rock (From Akaye singing in Anmatjere & English) Get ready to be blown away by the thunderous beats and mesmerizing melodies of Mulga Bore Hard Rock, a band that infuses ancient rhythms with modern rock influences.
Pukatja Band (From Pukatja singing in Pitjantjatjara & English): The Pukatja Street Reggae band is a vibrant and captivating musical ensemble rooted in the heart of Central Australia's Indigenous community of Ernabella.
Desert Eagles (From Ali Curung singing in Alyawarr & English): Hailing from the heart of the outback, Desert Eagles' soulful sounds and enchanting storytelling encapsulate the essence of the Australian desert landscape.
Arrkula Yinbayarra (Together We Sing) (From Borroloola singing in Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji): bring something different to this year’s Bush Bands as a group of sonorous Songwomen led by Marlene Timothy from Borroloola and realising her vision of strengthening culture through using singing to maintain the threatened traditional languages of the Yanyuwa, Marra, Garrwa and Gudanji people.
Laramba Band (From Laramba singing in Anmatjere, Warlpiri & English): With their infectious energy and dynamic performances, Laramba Band embodies the spirit of community and togetherness through their music.
PJ Reggae (From Ti Tree singing in Warlpiri, Anmatjere & English): Known for their smooth reggae rhythms and uplifting lyrics, PJ Reggae promises to get the crowd moving and spreading good vibes all around.
Eastern Reggae (From Santa Teresa singing in Arrernte & English): Eastern Reggae's fusion of traditional melodies with reggae beats creates a unique and uplifting musical experience.
Eju (From Ali Curung singing in Warlpiri, Luritja & English): Eju's soul-stirring vocals and instrumentation transport listeners on a journey through the vast landscapes of Indigenous storytelling.
Bush Bands Bash is not just a music festival; it is a celebration of Indigenous culture and a platform for these talented bands to share their art with a broader audience. It is also the culmination of a week-long intensive workshop honing performance skills and building music business knowledge. This year's Bush Bands Bash promises to be another unforgettable experience for music lovers of all backgrounds, uniting communities and celebrating the rich tapestry of Australia's cultural heritage.

Papunya Red Desert Warriors: Supporting Youth in Education and Life Skills Development (English)

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This short animation was co-developed by Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities (AMRRIC) and the Threatened Species Recovery Hub (ended Dec 2021). The animation is focused on cats on country, highlighting the high reproductive capacity of cats, and the potential impacts of cat overpopulation for human health and native wildlife. It also promotes the desexing of cats as an important component of responsible ownership of cats in remote communities, many of which are in areas of high conservation significance. It is narrated by Silvia Tkac.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

Live performance from Kiwirrkurra Community in WA. Celebrating 40 years of community.

Herb garden update ?

Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

The Family Shoveller Band are proud Karajarri family members who were all introduced to music at a young age. They started playing in their backyard in the remote Aboriginal community of Bidyadnga, WA.

Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

The Family Shoveller Band are proud Karajarri family members who were all introduced to music at a young age. They started playing in their backyard in the remote Aboriginal community of Bidyadnga, WA.

Bidyadanga Music Festival 2024

The Family Shoveller Band are proud Karajarri family members who were all introduced to music at a young age. They started playing in their backyard in the remote Aboriginal community of Bidyadnga, WA.

Music Clip of the band "Wild Turkey' singing "Cruisin Back Home'.

Traditional Inma performed in Mimili in 1995 (Part 1)

From the EVTV archives, the Ernabella ladies take us out bush to show what's good for eating.

In this episode of doggie days, the star Doggie gets lost and has to perform tricks to find his real owners.

Video from the Mowanjum festival held in Derby, 2011.

Mikailah came up with this movie when we went to do some filming up the hill behind Pukatja store. She was inspired by seeing all the car wrecks at sunset. She gave everyone their instructions and we were off and filming, hurrying before the sun went down. Dialogue was totally freeform, and spoken at a completely normal speed for these creative young kungka tjuta.

Yungngora kids' song demonstrating Breathe Blow Cough technique for Healthy Ears

Live recording of "Rodeo Road" by Fitzroy Xpress at the Nguyuru Waaringarrem Music Festival, Halls Creek 2012.

Live music Billard Boys band singing.

Live music Clip Beagle Bay Keep Culture festival 2013

Cliffside Reggae performing Petrol Wanti at the Nguyuru Waaringarrem Music Festival Halls Creek 2013.

An introduction to Ngangkere Healing & vibrational medicine, with Frank Ansell, Eastern Arrernte ngangkere

The making of a story about girls getting lost in the bush.

The Banatjarl Strongbala Wumin Grup have filmed a smoking ceremony, the ancient custom practised by indigenous people for thousands of years.

The song, Holdimbat Beibi Smokimbat Beibi was created by singer/songwriter Shellie Morris and wimun from the Grup for the na-walkwalk-kan (children) of the Katherine region.

The Bilingual Baby Board Book - Na-Walkwalk-kan showcases the song and photos of the body parts that are specifically smoked or warmed.

Created over 5 days in August 2012, in partnership with Outback Arts and Walgett Shire Council. Walgett is a small town in northwest NSW, on the junction of the Namoi and Barwon rivers.

this song, written with young people from Walgett High School advocates awareness around local culture and social issues, acknowledging the bleak social history in Australian Indigenous communities, whilst challenging young people and local community members to create change for the future.

A special thanks to Roslyn McGregor for her ongoing support, her unwavering strength and her commitment to her people and their cultural identity.




Thanks to James Pike, Anne Dennis, Tanya Coelho, Rob Holden, Walgett Local Aboriginal Lands Council, Susan Lawrence, Outback Arts, Walgett Shire Council and the Walgett community.

We pay our respects to the Gamilaraay / Yuwaalaraay people - traditional owners of the country upon which this story was told.

*Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that photographs/videos may contain images of deceased persons, which may cause sadness or distress.

A documentary that explores the beautiful locations around One Arm Point with an environmental focus. With interviews with the Bardi Jawi Rangers, the film explores how the rangers work with the community to maintain these areas and engage with the community.

"Permanent One Night Stand" by Rodeworx, recorded live at the Nguyuru Waaringarrem Music Festival, Halls Creek, 2013

This hip hop track is an outcome from a project called 'Song Nation' -- A collaboration between Toby Finlayson and Matthew Priestley from Desert Pea Media, The Smugglers Of Light Foundation, Vibe Australia and APRA/ AMCOS.

Created as part of a mentoring process with young people from St Teresa's College, Abergowrie North QLD, the song was written as part of a unique process with Desert Pea Media and yr 12 students.

Song Nation culminated at The Vibe Festival in Townsville, where the young people were invited to screen their clips and perform in front of over 2,000 people.

2015 Lightning Carnival Day 1 Papunya Eagles Vs Ngaanyatjarra Storm

A silent short film about SUGAR!

2015 Lightning Carnival Day 1 Titjikala Vs Ntaria.

This game was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Treager Park in Alice Springs.

2015 Lightning Carnival Day 1 Ti Tree Roosters Vs South East Eagles.

This game was captured by the ICTV Live Team at Treager Park in Alice Springs.

2015 Lightning Carnival Day 1 Pipilyatjarra Vs Mt. Liebig

Short drama about family violence to send a message about breaking the cycle of violence.

In a remote part of Western Australia lives an endangered species of rock wallaby. Although known to the local Martu people, this population of endangered species was one of the last known populations in the Western Desert. Constantly hunted by feral predators, particularly wild cats and foxes, the rock wallabies were in danger of disappearing altogether.

This documentary shows rangers at work establishing a new colony of rock wallabies to help secure their survival for the future.

Live Music Film clip from Keep Culture Festival 2015, Beagle Bay

Fifth poem of six in the Writings From The Dark series.

The lead single and title track from Gawurra's debut album 'Ratja Yaliyali' (meaning 'Vine of Love').

Gawurra [pronounced gow-rra] is an extraordinary singer and engaging performer hailing from East Arnhem Land. A contemporary of Gurrumul, he has a deeply resonant voice and musical sensitivity. His debut single Ratja Yaliyali [to be released from a forthcoming album of the same name]; won the 2015 NT Song of the Year Award in the Pop category.

Broadwing an award winning young producer from the NT has given the song [and forthcoming album] an unexpected edge while soulfully blending Gawurra’s traditional & contemporary sound. The instrumentation is built around a resonant vocal, atmospheric guitar, simple drums and a string section that slowly swells throughout the song.

A beautiful melody, and a well-known Yolngu Songline, Ratja Yaliyali [pronounced Rart-ja yarl-i yarl-i] translates to Vine of Love; a thread of love that keeps everything connected. When Yolngu people hear it they feel the spirit in their hearts. If they have a problem or feel gloomy, they listen to Ratja Yaliyali as it touches them and builds their spirit making them stronger and brighter.

Known as the Aboriginal Geronimo, Jandamarra held police at bay for years preventing pastoralists from occupying rich pastures of the Kimberley. Today he is regarded as a folk hero and stories abound of his superhuman abilities.

Full Concert Video of the Battle of the Bands, from the NG Lands Festival held in Wingellina, 2016.

Captured by the NG Media Live events team.

Yirara College TV 2017 : Term 1, Episode 1.

The Yirara news team is back with the first episode of Yirara TV fro 2017.

Created by the students from Yirara College in Alice Springs, with the help of Paul Imms and Charmaine Ingram.

ICTV's Community Bulletin Board, changes each week to advertise community events. This week begins on 3rd August, 2017

Featuring the new ICTV Cockatoo Graphics style, and original music by Thomas Big Bear Saylor.

Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women's songs from Yuendumu.

This series consists of four short films in which Warlpiri women sing, dance and tell the stories of different ancestral beings who travel across Warlpiri country. Each part contains footage of these women singing, painting their bodies with red and white ochre and performing the accompanying dances. The first part presents the Minamina yawulyu and tells of group of ancestral women as they emerge from Minamina, in the far west of Warlpiri country and begin their journey eastwards. Part 2 presents the songs and stories of the Watiyawarnu ancestors from Ngurlulirri-nyinanya, to the north-west of Yuendumu, telling of their travels as they search for varieties of acacia seed, grinding them and making seed cakes along the way. Part 3 presents the famous songs and story of the two Jangalas from Warlukurlangu whose evil blue-tongue lizard father lights a raging bush fire, forcing them to run away southwards out of their country before they return home, weak and exhausted. And finally, part 4 presents the songs and stories of the Ngapa ‘Rain’ Dreaming that travels westwards across the country to the north of Yuendumu. Warlpiri women from Yuendumu have presented these yawulyu so that the songs and their associated knowledge can be remembered and performed by future generations of Warlpiri women. These films appear on a DVD which comes as an accompanying insert in the book ‘Yurntumu-wardingki juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu: Warlpiri women’s songs from Yuendumu’ (Batchelor Institute Press, 2017).

This video shows Violet Wadrill Nanaku demonstrating how to make wirriji (hair string).

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).

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 Gabi Briggs speaking about the Ambeyang 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

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.

First Languages Australia short with Jack Johncock speaking about the Wirangu Kokatha 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