Wurri-Ki Culture

We couldn’t be prouder of the students at St Thomas Aquinas Primary School

Through Geelong Gallery’s mural program, students at St Thomas Aquinas worked alongside First Nations artists and cultural educators, Norm Stanley and Nikki McKenzie to design and create this collaborative mural—an important and lasting legacy for their school.

Norm Stanley provides this insight into the program process:
“The question we asked: What connects you to Wadawurrung Country?
Some of the answers were: Hills, beaches, trees, ocean, rivers, and family.
From the top [of the mural] we have the ocean with a touch of trees in the form of leaves.
The yellow running across is the coastline, the middens that are such an important Ancestral connection.
The red is the gathering of classes and their families which all belong to each other, connected as the School community.
The blue is the river, the Barwon that runs around the hills.
And the Green at the bottom are the hills of this place we call home. are stencilled to represent themselves, and their connection to the land.”

Congratulations to all involved in creating this mural. It is an important visual reminder of the meaningful connections the students formed celebrating the rich culture, knowledge and experience of our First Nations people.

Thanks to Creative Futures for funding this important program

🖤💛❤️ Over the last few years, we have been working with passionate staff of Kardinia College who are committed to creating change. Together we have been working towards creating ongoing Cultural Education programs across all year levels.
This year, we are seeing the planning and hard work come together as we put the programs into place and start delivering them.

I started with Grade 4 students as an "Artist in Residence" sharing Storytelling and the importance of sharing story.
How the birds got their colours was the focus story and the students have been creating their own Artwork to tell that story.
Last week I returned to share "Dance and Human Movement" with approximately 150 Kinder (3+4 year olds) and Prep students. I shared dance movements, music, beats and rhythm with all classes, helping them to understand the connection between Storytelling, Dance and Music.
Today my session was with Year 9 Humanities. The subject "Researching the Modern World" and looking at perspectives of modern Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues such as Land Rights, Right to vote and Citizenship.
This is just the beginning of what will be an amazing journey of development around embedding Aboriginal Cultural Education into the curriculum.
A few more sessions this week and many more locked in over the next few months.

Creating change takes time, it'll take even longer if we don't work together.

We are Wurri-Ki Culture 🖤💛❤️

As our commitment to National Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC Week continues, today and across Term 2 & 3, students from St Thomas Aquinas Primary School in Norlane are collaborating with First Nations artists and educators Norm Stanley and Nikki McKenzie from Wurri – Ki Culture and Gallery Educators in a series of workshops to design and create a mural at their school.

This project is an ideal opportunity to provide meaningful connections for all students to celebrate the rich and thriving culture, knowledge and experience of our First Nations people.

Image: Norm Stanley at St Thomas Aquinas, Norlane 2022

We’re very excited to share with everyone our new and truly unique Wangala uniform featuring our Wangala artwork by Norm Stanley! A reminder that uniform is available for pickup on Thursday from 10:00am.

Norm Jurrawaa Stanley wins the people choice award indigenous art for his oil painting “In a dream”.
Featured in today’s Geelong Advertiser , Norm Jurrawaa Stanley is photographed on the Queenscliff Pier next to his winning entry.
The Queenscliff Art Prize has been fortunate to be able to feature work of this calibre and we would like to congratulate Norm for his win in this tightly contested competition.

Peoples choice award-indigenous art.
The Queenscliff Pier now features what is arguably the biggest outdoor art exhibition in Australia and amongst the 100+ artworks are some by highly talented indigenous artists.
Each week we will post an image of one of these artworks and we hope members of this community may choose to “share” the image.
At the end of each week the total “shares” will be counted and the artwork with the most will be determined to be the Queenscliff Art Prize 2022
Peoples Choice Award Winner.

I hope many in this community can participate and vote for a winner - so please “share” these great images
This first image to vote for is by Norm Jurrawaa Stanley

🖤💛❤ Wurri-Ki Culture and Eagle Eye Creations are proud to present our new product range, our mobile phone covers. Based on four original designs that represent the four seasons that we know, these will add colour to your mobile world.
We've missed out on the Christmas gift idea for this year but we will be taking orders for these original designed beauties from January 2022.
It's a little while away, but I just wanted to share them with you. Once we are ready to accept those orders, I will repost again.
I hope you like them.
Always Original! The Way It Should Be! 🖤💛❤

Indigenous celebration returns | Geelong Independent Kurnai and Wotjobaluk man Norm Stanley is proud to continue a tradition that “two fellas sat down 13 years ago …

🖤💛❤ Three Cheese Boards ready for delivery! All boards are hand crafted and oiled ready for use. These original and unique platters make for a wonderful gift for friends, relatives or for yourself. Orders can be placed through our website: www.wurrikiculture.com.au 🖤💛❤

🖤💛💖 We are Wurri-Ki Culture! In Wadawurrung language Wurri-Ki means "Speak". This is what we do! Through our Cultural Education programs, weaved through our Artwork, shared through our Consultancy and embedded in our teaching! We speak Culture! We are Wurri-Ki Culture!
For more information about our services, our On Country Excursions, to book a meeting or Incursion, please contact us on [email protected]

We would love to share with you!

Always original! The way it should be! 🖤💛💖

Original and unique Acknowledgement of Country plaques are available to purchase through Wurri-Ki Culture.
We can customise your plaque to suit your specific requirements from design to wording.
Please check our website for more designs, details and pricing.
www.wurrikiculture.com.au

We are incredibly thankful to celebrate, perform and tell stories and on Wadawurrung Country.

A huge thank you to Nikki McKenzie for Welcoming all to Country at Friday night’s Winter Escape Season launch with support from Norm Stanley.

Creative Victoria

🖤💛💖 We are Wurri-Ki Culture. Wurri-Ki means to speak in Wadawurrung language. This is what we do. Through our Education Programs, Teacher/Educator Professional Development Programs, our On Country Cultural Education Tours and our Aboriginal Consultancy services we speak Culture.
To see more of what we do, please have a watch of the film captured by Indigenous Outreach Projects with the Gordon TAFE GTEC students and staff.
We are Wurri-Ki Culture! 🖤💛💖

https://youtu.be/rXjUxD0iwBQ

IOP | The Gordon Geelong - Connecting To Country Indigenous Outreach Projects were honoured to capture The Gordon's vision to express the importance of Country to First Nations peoples and their culture. Fo...

🖤💛❤ It's finished 😁 Completed commissioned piece ready for its new home!
Title: River Walk
"The river is the Werribee river. The fish are Bream which belong to the waterway known as "backbone" (Werribee)
The Gum leaves represent life and ceremony. The campfires represent our Old people, their connection to each other and them coming together. The yellow flowers are the Murrnong, the Yam daisy; An important and significant part of the Traditional diet. The footprints across the top represent the title, River Walk".
I love it!
Always Original! The Way It Should Be! 🖤💛❤

We’re thrilled that our hand crafted Cheese Platters and our Aboriginal Art Symbol Memory Game is featured in CODE Souvenir Geelong, a curated catalogue of beautiful gifts and keepsakes designed exclusively in the Geelong region.



CODE Souvenir is designed to create opportunities for local artists, makers and producers by showcasing our work to business events, tourism, retail and corporate buyers, and visitors to the region.



Big thanks to the City of Greater Geelong for supporting local creative industries through this project.



Visit www.codesouvenirgeelong.com.au to choose the perfect gift for your visitors and VIPs … or treat yourself 😊