Mowanjum Aboriginal Art and Cultural Centre
The Mowanjum Aboriginal Art and Cultural Centre is a creative hub for the Worrorra, Ngarinyin and Wunumbal tribes, who make up the Mowanjum community outside Derby, Western Australia.
The centre hosts exhibitions, workshops and community projects, as well as the annual Mowanjum Festival, one of Australia's longest running indigenous cultural festivals.
This segment was featured on Destination WA.
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Mowanjum Festival Trailer
Each year in July the Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre hosts the Mowanjum Festival to share the traditional culture and dances of the Ngarinyin, Worrorra and Wunambal peoples of Mowanjum. The Festival attracts thousands of visitors from across Australia, travelling to witness and take part in one of Australia’s largest cultural celebrations.
We want to teach you about our Junba culture, songs and dances. Junba are our corroborees that tell stories relating to our Ngarinyin, Worrorra and Wunambal cultures. We also have visiting dancers perform Junba from all around the Kimberley.
To learn more about Mowanjum Festival visit our website mowanjumarts.com and our Facebook page for updated details
Footage filmed by Tim Mummery and edited by Yeah Right Productions 2014
Note on recording at Mowanjum Festival
You are welcome to take photographs and film in public areas for personal use only. Publishing film and photographs of Mowanjum Festival is prohibited. Publication means any commercial reproduction, posting on any website or social media site on the Internet.
Mowanjum Festival Trailer
Each year the Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre hosts the Mowanjum Festival to share the traditional culture and dances of the Ngarinyin, Worrorra and Wunambal peoples of Mowanjum. The Festival attracts thousands of visitors from across Australia, travelling to witness and take part in one of Australia’s largest cultural celebrations.
We want to teach you about our Junba culture, songs and dances. Junba are our corroborees that tell stories relating to our Ngarinyin, Worrorra and Wunambal cultures. We also have visiting dancers perform Junba from all around the Kimberley.
Note on recording at Mowanjum Festival
You are welcome to take photographs and film in public areas for personal use only. Publishing film and photographs of Mowanjum Festival is prohibited. Publication means any commercial reproduction, posting on any website or social media site on the Internet.
Namarali Trip 2016 - Concept Development - Mowanjum Rock Art Education Space
Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre is building a Rock Art Education Space. Our aim is to teach people about the importance of Rock Art and its continuing link to contemporary art practice.
Mowanjum Art Centre
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Mowanjum People - Spirit of the Wandjina
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.
Cinematography, Direction & Editing - Tim Mummery
Produced by Yeah Right Productions 2010
Copyright Mowanjum Artists Spirit of the Wandjina Corporation
mowanjumarts.com
Ornmol (Ochre)
Old people treasure the white ochre. They carry it with them. When they are near a cave they might spend a week and paint, Alfie White
Created by Dolord Mindi at Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre, Directed by Katie Breckon
Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge the short section of drone footage, aerial shot of art centre, donated to the Art Centre by an unknown cameraman, sorry your name was not passed onto the media centre. Please get in touch if you see this we would like to include you in credits.
mowanjumarts.com
Limited subtitles published 10/112015
The importance of Junba
This video shares insight into the importance of Junba to Mowanjum people specifically youth by Mowanjum Youth Officer Leah Umbagai. We also hear from Mowanjum Arts Worker Cecila Umbagai (17yrs) about thoughts on Junba and Photography.
What We Love About Junba
We ask some of our favourite little people from Mowanjum Community what they love about Junba, and why they think it is important. Junba simply described is storytelling through traditional song and dance. Junba can be seen at Mowanjum Festival every July.
Wandjina Tours
© Wandjina Tours
Kunmunya Master edit
In August 2019 the Mowanjum aboriginal community were assisted by the Boab Network to return to the site of the Kunmunya Presbyterian Mission. It operated from 1916 to 1951 when they were moved south by the government. Rev. J.R.B. Love (Bob Love) was a key person during the period 1927 - 1940. This is the story of the trip back to Worrorra country.
Bush Boy Strikes Again
Filmed in Majaddin in 2012.
The video was filmed, acted and directed by Mowanjum youth with help from Katie Breckon (Mowanjum Media Coordinator)
Sherika Nulgit on the Indigenous Remote Archival Fellowship
Sherika Nulgit, from the Mowanjum Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre (Derby, WA), talks about her experiences as one of the recipients of the inaugural Indigenous Remote Archival Fellowship in 2015.
The Indigenous Remote Archival Fellowship is a partnership of the Indigenous Remote Communications Association (IRCA), the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
The Fellowship is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations developing strategies and structures to archive and preserve cultural heritage materials, particularly in audiovisual formats. Representatives of the successful organisation will travel to Canberra to spend three days at the NFSA and AIATSIS, and take part in a workshop organised in Alice Springs and/or their home community.
More information:
Derby - the true Kimberley
Derby is a town in the far north-west of Western Australia. Populated by 5,000 people - half Indigenous - Derby is not only at the centre of social and community issues facing contemporary Australia but is also in the midst of economic changes asssociated with WA's ongoing resources boom. Yet Derby remains an archetypal Australian country town, with outback values and lifestyle.
The Indigenous Remote Archival Fellowship - preview
Shaun Angeles, from the Strehlow Research Centre (Alice Springs, NT), and Sherika Nulgit, from the Mowanjum Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre (Derby, WA), talk about their experiences as one of the recipients of the inaugural Indigenous Remote Archival Fellowship in 2015.
The Indigenous Remote Archival Fellowship is a partnership of the Indigenous Remote Communications Association (IRCA), the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
The Fellowship is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations developing strategies and structures to archive and preserve cultural heritage materials, particularly in audiovisual formats. Representatives of the successful organisation will travel to Canberra to spend three days at the NFSA and AIATSIS, and take part in a workshop organised in Alice Springs and/or their home community.
More information:
Return to Majaddin
Dr Robert Hoskin introduces the book Return to Majaddin: A Kimberley Homecoming, co-authored with Ngarinyin Elder Eddie Bear
Kupungarri Dreamtime Story - ICS Trailer
This video was supplied to us by the Indigenous Community Stories (ICS) program, who generate a short trailer as part of the ICS recording program. This trailer does not reflect our vision for the final edited production. But it does give the selection panel an example of scenes recorded during the filming in 2015/16.
MASWAC Engaging Collections
Mowanjum Community Collection and why it is important to engage Community Elders in the documentation of artefacts and audiovisual material.
Mowanjum Corroboree
Mowanjum Community near Derby shares their history, culture and dreaming with hundreds of visitors to the world famous arts hub. My report for GWN7 News
2018 Moving Forward
Patricia Riley, CEO, Pandanus Park, Western Australia describes the challenges the community faces as government assigned service providers fail to provide agreed services.