Tiwi Tours, Bathurst and Melville Islands, NT, Australia in the years 1980 - 1988
Annette and Stephen Marshall pioneered aboriginal culture tourism to Bathurst and Melville Islands, operating Tiwi Tours to the Islands1980 to 1988, when the business was then sold to a joint venture between the Tiwi people and a Darwin-based tour operator. Bima Wear clothing, Tiwi Design screen-printing, Tiwi Pottery and Tiwi Art were all successfully promoted, and significant monies were generated for the communities by way of sales and marketing. Culture and history was shared extensively, and visitors loved interacting with Mary-Margaret and Ruth, the Tiwi Tours morning tea ladies. The first tour was 18th October 1980, 22 French men and women.The number of visitors in 1981 was 454, growing to 2,371 in 1988. Thank you to the Tiwi people who made it possible to commence the tours; Alfie, our first Tiwi guide; the priests, brothers and nuns of the Catholic Mission who were so helpful in so many ways; so many others on the Islands who helped us; Air North who gave us fantastic air support, and the then Northern Territory Tourist Bureau who actively sold our offering. It grew into a significant logistical exercise every day - air flights between Darwin and the Islands, 2 Toyota Coaster buses on Bathurst Island, 2 more on Melville Island, a Toyota 4WD troop carrier, and a 6 metre hydrafield boat to ferry passengers across the Apsley Straits. All bookings were handled in our Darwin home, all supplies for morning teas, lunch, were sourced from Darwin too and flown to the Bathurst Island, thank you Annette! And thank you to my very faithful and very capable friend, Leo, and wife Steph, for their being an integral part of the team.
Around Palmerston: Tiwi By Design Tiwi Islands day tour
Wayne & Around Palmerston joined SeaLink Northern Territory on our Tiwi Islands day tour, Tiwi By Design.
Sinchi Tribe - Tiwi Islands Series - Sistagirls
Sinchi Tiwi Islands Project
Interview with Nicole and Andrea of the Sistagirls, an inspiring group of aboriginal transgender women who gave us a fascinating insight into how they found acceptance in the community and are inspiring others.
Filmed by Wayne Quilliam
Edited by Estanislao Allende Galluccio
With special thanks to everyone at Tiwi Design
For more information on Sinchi see - sinchi-tribe.com
Fish Hut - Tiwi Recreational Fishing Shelters
Tiwi Island Sister Anne
Senior Australian of the Year 2017, Sister Anne Gardiner, has devoted her entire life to helping the indigenous Tiwi people on remote Bathurst Island, north of Darwin. For more than 50 years she’s worked tirelessly to improve their quality of life, never expecting anything in return.
Nightcliff to Tiwi May 2014
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NT Nomad Ep 25 Tiwi Islands Part 2
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As people in mainstream Australian society turn away from religion... the trend is being reflected on the Tiwi Islands off the Northern Territory.
Elders in the staunchly Catholic Islands are urging their community to do more to bring a lost generation back to the church.
Melanie Arnost reports from Melville island.
[0]Catholics at Pirlingimpi celebrated Easter at their local church on Melville Island off Darwin...
[1]UPSOT easter singing
but with only 50 people out of a community population of 400 regularly attending, it's clear going to church isn't everyone's priority.
[2]GRAB - Marius Puruntatameri - Tiwi Islands Shire
A lot of people, they should be coming to church service but aren't anymore.
GRAB: sister barbara tippolay - Tiwi nun
[3]There is the generation missing, and we know there is and we're trying to see in which ways we can bring that middle generation to come in.
[4]Community elders have grown up as Catholics since the first mission on the island was established in the 1940s.
[5]They're unimpressed by the empty seats at church...
[6]They say these days... it's just the elderly and young Tiwi Islanders attending...
[7]Substance abuse is being blamed for the absence of the middle generation.
Cyril Kalippa - Tiwi Land council
[8]it's a shame but what do you do? there's other things that are more important to some of us, the club, having the club here to drink and then you've got the ganja as well.
[9]But the Pirlingimpi faithful haven't lost hope.
sister barbara tippolay - Tiwi nun
[10]I think deep down the faith is still there but it has to start again beginning with families trying to build up their children.
Cyril Kalippa
[11]If we don't do that then, that's it. the new pope won't bring people back to church. it's us working together.
[12]Elders hope bringing the youngest to church... will encourage the missing middle generation as well.
Melanie Arnost ABC News Pirlingimpi
Tiwi Grand Final
Take the opportunity to visit Bathurst Island to buy Tiwi art and craft at community prices and catch the skilful displays in the footy grand final.
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Tiwi islands
Barry Ferrier; Music genius behind the QANTAS 'Light Fantastic' Parades at Brisbane's Expo' 88.
Barry Ferrier - a profile.
After completing a degree in Psychology at Sydney University, Barry began his professional music career as a vocalist in the original production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney and the Palais Theatre, Melbourne. He gained experience in number of theatre shows, musicals and bands, including a national tour with Steve J. Spears' Africa: the Savage Musical. Recognition of his diverse talents earned him a prestigious stint as co-music director with Andrew Wilson for the London-based Lindsay Kemp Mime Company , during which time he composed the music for their sell out London production of Oscar Wilde's 'Salome'. He also appeared in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (with Mark Holden as Joseph) at the Seymour Centre, Sydney.
With lyricist Frank Howson he composed two stage musicals Magical Frank and The Boy Who Dared to Dream with successful seasons in Melbourne and he produced the cast albums. He wrote the musical Goodnight World with Gerald Frape, and played a lead role in the Brisbane production at La Boite Theatre, directed by Mary Hickson.
He toured as guitarist with pioneering Aussie rocker Jeff St. John, played bass in chart topping pop group the Ferrets, and then appeared on the legendary ABC music show 'Countdown' and the Channel 9's Midday Show as an RCA recording artist with his late wife Cammie Lindon. He also opened for Ry Cooder at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne and toured with the Norman Gunston Christmas Show.
Seeking a break from the rigours of the music industry Barry spent a summer in the sleepy village of Bangalow, near Byron Bay in 1980 and has lived there ever since, racking up his 35nd consecutive year as an entertainer in clubs and pubs around the Byron Region and the Gold Coast.
But while treasuring the rural lifestyle in Bangalow, Barry has also kept alive a diverse career in the arts outside the area. His early interest in synthesisers and his pioneering work in computer music and digital video in the mid eighties culminated in a performance of his experimental electronic music theatre production Dreams and Machines at the Concert Hall of the Queensland Performing Arts Complex in Brisbane, where he spent five years as resident composer, winning the A.S.E.A. Award for excellence in the arts for his work on the children's theatre show Solomon and the Big Cat. He composed innovative quadrophonic music soundtracks for the QANTAS 'Light Fantastic' animatronic parades at Brisbane's Expo' 88.
These experiences led him on to postgraduate studies in experimental computer art for which he received a PhD (thus the stage name Dr. Baz ) and a late career as an academic, with five years as Assistant Professor of Multimedia at Bond University and lecturer positions at Southern Cross Uni, CQU, Griffith University, Kingscliff TAFE and S.A.E. He has also graduated with degrees in orchestral composition, performing arts (theatre directing) and web design.
Barry also has a long track record of arts projects with aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. He toured for the N.T. Arts Council to every aboriginal settlement in the Northern Territory as The Secret Admirers with the From This Place production. He made several trips recording aboriginal music for the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), producing the original recordings for Jimmy Chi's hit indigenous musical Bran Nue Dae and the Pigrim Brothers, then known as Scrap Metal. He has made three documentaries for aboriginal community groups, one for the Tangatyere Land Council in Alice Springs, the Pitjanjatjara Land Council, and for the Tiwi in Bathurst Island. He also composed and recorded the songs and music for the radio series Bushfire Radio in collaboration with Bill Davis, which won the Golden Reel Award for Community Radio.
In the Mid-90s toured the entertainment centres of all Australian capital cities as band leader and guitarist for the late and legendary songstress Eartha Kitt, headlining at the Gold Coast International Jazz Festival which was televised nationally live by the ABC.
He composed the soundtrack to the film Moments of Cruelty (dir. by Guy Morgan) and his score for Green Tea won the Dept. Ethnic Affairs Multicultural Award.
In the recent years Dr. Baz has toured Europe, Scandinavia and the UK twice as Slim Pickens and Doctor Baz and again with latin/flamenco guitar trio Poco Loco . With Slim Pickens he has performed at the Gympie Muster, Tamworth Country Music Festival, made several appearances at the East Coast International Blues Festival in Byron Bay and others.
Tiwi Islands Day Tour - Tourism NT
Take the ferry for a day trip to the Tiwi Islands and join an informative, cultural tour with SeaLink Northern Territory.
Island Graduation 2019, Xavier Catholic College, Tiwi Islands
Today we celebrated six of our Year 12 students graduating! Members of each student's family presented them with their certificate by doing their Yoyi (dreaming dance).
Travel Oz Episode 25 (Part 2)
Gregs adventure in the Tiwi Islands continue. We see traditional Tiwi body painting, dancing and ceremonies
Tiwi Islands Engagement Shoot
Footage from Jane and David's Engagement shoot on the Tiwi Islands
John Pilakui Tiwi Footyman sculpture
John Pilakui created a sculpture of an AFL Football player in the style of pukumani poles for the Museum's Tiwi Footy exhibition. Here John talks about his work.