Outback Festivals Sponsors 2012
May 14th, 2012
Wakakirri Outback Festival is very pleased to announce our 2012 Festival Sponsors. We are still proud to be associated with DEEWR, NITV and Aurora.
This year we also are excited to again be working with IHHP (Indigneous Hip Hop Projects) in all of our locations. Outback has worked with IHHP for a few years now and the students always look forward to their week long programs and presentations.
Outback Festivals has a NEW sponsor for 2012 – WesTrac. WesTrac has a strong commitment to communities and is the second largest provider of apprenticeships in Australia following the Federal Government. We are eager for them to bring their message to our communities, and to introduce the WesTrac Institute to our secondary school students.
Please read all about our Sponsors on our Wakakirri Sponsors page.
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Halls Creek WA a new location!
April 11th, 2012
Halls Creek WA Is Our New Location
2012 Outback Festival
The Wakakirri Outback Program gives Indigenous students and their communities from remote and regional areas of Australia the opportunity to hold a festival, celebrating their community and culture. The program consists of two stages:
Stage 1: Wakakirri provides local schools with workshops in filmmaking, performing and visual arts so they can create works for the festival. Wakakirri also sets up community festival committees and provides festival work experience for students. This process takes 6-10 weeks.
Stage 2: Wakakirri helps the community stage a one day festival. Festival activities include a short film festival, local and imported entertainment as well as cultural, career and health workshops for students and a community BBQ.
All works produced for the Festival are shown to schools in capital cities around Australia with an aim of bridging cultural divides. Wakakirri returns to the same communities for three years with an aim of developing students self esteem, career aspirations and healthy lifestyle choices in a manner that resonates with contemporary youth culture.
An exciting new location has been added to Wakakiri’s Outback Festival this year – Halls Creek Western Australia. In addition to Barunga NT and Ceduna SA we are taking our Festival to Halls Creek District High School, Fitzroy Crossing District High School, and Ngalangangpum School at Warmun.
These schools are in the West Kimberly area and are true Outback towns. This location is also the gateway to some of the country’s most spectacular natural landscapes and also has some of the country’s most well known Aboriginal artists. We are holding a Community Meeting in Halls Creek on May 30 for all interested who want to be part of our festival. Please see the Community Meeting Notice on the link. Halls Creek Meeting Notice 30.05.12
Halls Creek District High School (HCDHS) a K-Y12 School that provides diverse learning programs for 350+ students, mainly Indigenous. Unique learning programs such as Horse Mastery and Station Skills are offered through local partnerships which also assist Work Experience and VET Programs for our Senior School (Yrs 10-12). 405 students are enrolled and 96% are Indigenous.
Fitzroy District High School, situated on the northern bank of the Fitzroy River, is approximately 400km east of Broome. The school has approximately 270 students K-Y12. Around 95% of students are Aboriginal. The School Mission, with the motto Strong Minds Strong Culture, is to provide students with the opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to achieve their full potential and contribute to society.
Ngalangangpum School, Warmun, a co-educational primary Catholic school of 120 students from K-Y10 serving the Warmun Aboriginal Community. The school is centred on the Mother and Child – symbol of the Two-Way process. Traditional aspects of education are recognised and given status equal to other curriculum subjects. In this way students can learn to value both traditions.
Wakakirri is already in talks with peak Community Stakeholders in the area, such as Kimberley Language Resource Centre (the first language centre in Australia), Kimberley Land Council, Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre as well as Shire representatives, community leaders and Media partners and in May we will visit the community and bring our scriptwriters to work with the kids.
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New Facilitators Teams for 2012 Festivals
March 7th, 2012
Outback Festivals are proud to welcome our new Facilitators for the 2012 locations of Halls Creek WA, Barunga NT and Ceduna SA.
Our new Scriptwriters this year are Liz Warning and Jo-Anne Brechin. Liz has many years experience in all facets of film and television, working with children, and has also worked in many of Australia’s remote communities. Jo-Anne is a Sydney based freelance screenwriter and filmmaker who also runs a film club at a Western Sydney primary school.
The Facilitators joining us again from 2011 are:
Poppy Stockell – Poppy is a Multi-award winning Producer, Director, Writer, Camera Operator and Editor and is on our Advisory Committee and has facilitated at multliple Outback Festivals.
Lou Glover – Lou has extensive experience as a Producer and Director as well as working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups and childrens school programs. Lou has also facilitated at multiple Outback Festivals.
John Janson-Moore – John is an experienced filmmaker with international television and festival credits in all facets of direction, production, writing, camera and editing and joins us once again for another Outback Festival year.
David Wardell – David is new with Wakakirri Outback Festivals this year as a Director/Editor Facilitator. David has extensive experience working in remote Indigenous Communities and has a strong background in documentary filmmaking and creative workshop facilitiation with young people.
Gus Berger – Gus has multiple skills as a Director, Editor and Producer as well as vast Camera Operator experience. Gus also joins us again for another Outback Festival 2012.
Annie Le Cavalier – Annie is currently the Executive Director of Vibewire Youth Inc., has experience in Editing and Producing and joins us again as a Camera Operator with Outback Festivals.
Cornel Ozies – Cornel is new with Wakakirri Outback Festivals this year as a Camera Operator/Editor. He has great experience in Camera operation, photography and directing and works on projects with NITV and ABC. Cornel also has lived in Community and works with Aboriginal children on many programs.
Len Glasser – Len is also new with Wakakirri Outback Festivals this year as a Camera Operator/Editor. He has over 20 years of work in film and video production as a cameraman, set technician, director and producer. He also has extensive experience teaching and training children and young adults in filmmaking.
Sam Hoffman – Sam joins Wakakirri again this year as a Camera Operator/Editor. Sam runs a small business production house focusing on Indigenous culture and has worked with Indigneous communities, media and creative sectors for over 10 years.
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Please check the website in early 2013 for application opportunities with the 2013 Outback Festival.
Thank you.
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Broken Hill Festival a Huge Success
June 23rd, 2011
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Communities involved 2012
June 8th, 2011
Each year the Wakakirri Outback program is conducted in three schools in three separate areas (total 9 schools). Wakakirri will be working with communities in the Barunga (NT), Ceduna (SA) and Halls Creek (WA) areas over the next few years.
WA FESTIVAL: Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing, Ngalangangpum Warmun 3rd – 7th September
SA FESTIVAL: Crossways Lutheran, Yalata Anangu and Koonibba 15th – 19th October
NT FESTIVAL: Barunga, Jilkminggan and Bulman 20th – 24th August
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