Archive for the ‘Yamaji Art Events’ Category

Intercultural exchange – Yamaji Calisto explores nightsky narratives

Internationally renowned art directors from Italy have arrived on Yamatji land to listen and learn about Indigenous culture, dance and stories, entwining Yamatji language in a cross-culture opera performance. The Yamatji Language, Song and Dance Project has started after COVID-19 disrupted travel arrangements for the two-way learning experiment. World-renowned opera and music theatre production company […]

2022 Premier’s Science Award – Star Dreaming Nomination

“We are delighted to announce that Star Dreaming is a finalist in the Premier’s Science Awards in the Chevron Science Engagement Initiative of the Year category. This recognises an outstanding contribution to community awareness interest & participation in science in Western Australia. Stay tuned, winners announced in August Congratulations to our wonderful team of collaborators!!” […]

Yamaji Art represents the Midwest at the 2022 Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference

Yamaji Art, along with several other key stakeholders and Aboriginal Tourism operators, traveled to Cairn in Queensland Australia to attend the national Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference (AITC). The AITC was hosted by the Western Australian Indigenous Tourism Operators Council WAITOC). Themed ‘The Time is Now – Let’s Ignite’, the three day-long conference gave attendee’s  thought-provoking […]

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JULIE DOWLING: BIDYA GURLBARL

  In collaboration with Julie Dowling and John Curtin Gallery, Yamaji Art are excited to present to you her most recent exhibition “Bidya Gurlbarl – Open Secret”. Currently exhibiting at the John Curtin Gallery the collection of works explores Dowling’ s “stories of her own First Nation family, Dowling re-presents the violence and power imbalance […]

Yamaji Art wins award for “Best Astronomy Education” film at the 2021 Under the Dome Film Festival in Melbourne

Yamaji Art are so very thrilled to announce that the “Star Dreaming” film done in partnership with Prospero Productions and Curtin University has won the award for “Best Astronomy Education” film at the 2021 Under the Dome Film Festival in Melbourne with a summary from the jurors stating: “Star stories from 60,0000+ years of Australian […]

Star Dreaming Premiere

The red carpet came out yesterday….3 years of hard work, dedication and commitment with a passion was celebrated yesterday! We attended the international premiere of our film “Star Dreaming” at the national CinefestOZ with our partners Prospero Productions and Curtain University. Tears of pride were shed during the showing as we all worked through some […]