#yolnu

2025-02-11

I'll keep an eye out for this book. Sounds like it will be a fantastic (though also potentially harrowing) read

theguardian.com/books/2025/feb

#StoryTelling #Yolŋu #Book

Australian Geographicausgeo@newsmast.social
2024-08-06

See the entire collection of photographs from Garma Festival 2024: ausgeo.co/garma2024

Garma Festival, Australia’s largest Indigenous gathering, has just concluded its four-day celebration of Yolŋu life and culture.

Hosted by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, the festival showcases traditional miny’tji (art), manikay (song), bunggul (dance) and storytelling. It is also an important meeting point for the regions’ clans and families.

🎥 Leicolhn McKellar, Nina Franova, Teagan Glenane & Melanie Faith Dove via Garma Festival

#garmafestival2024 #garma #garmafestival #firstnations #aboriginal #photography #culture #yolnu
#activism #civilrights #government #indigenous #indigenouspeoples #photography

A person covered in yellow and orange paint is looking at the camera, with others similarly painted in the background. They wear headbands and necklaces matching the paint colors.Three people with traditional white paint on their faces and bodies stand outdoors among leafy green branches, smiling and interacting with each other.A young child with yellow body paint and a yellow cloth participates in a traditional dance alongside adults with similar body paint and yellow garments.A man covered in yellow body paint, wearing a yellow loincloth and headband, holds red and yellow braided cords while performing in an outdoor setting.
2023-04-03

You reckon the LLM search plugins get the Yolŋu naming protocols right for Yunupingu?

I suspect even the prompted QA Google shows might be offensive.

theguardian.com/australia-news

#llm #colonialism #Yolŋu

2023-04-03

The great man, recently passed, of North East Arnhem Land, spent his lifetime explaining to the world the #Yolŋu worldview.

Yunupingu himself explains “we seek that moment in the ceremonial cycle where all is equal and in balance. Where older men have guided the younger ones and, in turn, taken knowledge from their elders; where no one is better than anyone else, everyone is equal, performing their role and taking their duties and responsibilities – then the ceremony is balanced and the clan moves in unison: there is no female, no male, no little ones and no big ones; we are all the same.”

This is yothu yindi.
Balance. Wholeness. Completeness.

Just as these great clans are bound to each other for all time, so too are all those that now call #Australia home. Together we must secure a future for Australia in which we can find harmony and balance between all the people of this nation. – Taken from his final public statement, delivered to parliament by the Labor senator Pat Dodson.

The scene is of a tropical beach at sunset in the far north east of Australia’s Northern Territory. There is a campfire burning on the pale sand as low sunlight throws light onto the ocean at the left and up to the sky, where the clouds are now cast in shadow and the palm trees lining the beach on the right also stand in shadow. As the sun sets behind them, four young men dance a traditional Yolŋu dance, their backs to the sea, as two old men, their faces painted in white ochre, create the sacred music. One plays the didgeridoo and the other keeps the rhythm of the chant with clap sticks as he sings a traditional song.
2022-11-17

Wanha! Journey to Arnhem at the Opera House forecourt tonight

#Wanha! #Yolŋu #ArnhemLand #OperaHouseSydney #Sydney

Stage with video screens on both sides and Sydney city skyline behind, at dusk

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