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Bindea - Porcupine Lookout📸

Bindea- Porcupine Lookout 🔥 Students finished their trip to Gunnedah with visit to lookout. With the stunning view of the Liverpool Plains students could where they had been, where story had taken place and how all things are connected.

The Famous Wallaby Trap 🦘Students were in Gunnedah last week learning story and about traditional hunting practices.

Mullibah Lagoon 🌳 This week students spend time in Gunnedah, hearing story and visiting some special places while connecting to Country.

Mentoring 🦅
Students painting have started to take shape Ngurrambaa

Myall Creek Massacre Memorial 👣🔥
Dhiirranhi Ngiyani Ganungu - We Remember Them

Myall Creek Massacre Memorial 👣
Dhiirranhi Ngiyani Ganunga - We Remember Them

Calling all GCA Alumni 👣 We are heading to Myall Creek this Sunday, we have a seat on the bus for you!! Let us know if you are keen and we will save you a seat.

⌚️ Bus leaves at 7am and returning 4pm.
🌭 Food and drinks supplied.

If the seats are not filled, we will open it up to family members.

2018 O.Gs 👣 Being shown around St George. Visiting Hollywood, the Balonne River and putting on a dance for community.

2020 Triple Threats 🔥 Tasting 5 corners and other bush foods as we walked around Burra Bee Dee Mission.

Students prepping their canvases for painting during mentoring 🎨

Mentoring 🎨 Students have been continuing to learn how to share story through art.

The O.G 🔥🔥 Back in 2018 joined the GCA with a focus on learning how to weave a dance skirt and continue to learn about dance. At this time girls were not participating in dance like we see today. Olivia has helped pave the way for generation change. Now that’s Leadership!

2020 Triple Threats 🪃 Learning woodcarving with the master himself Tom Barker

2021 COVID-CREW 🔥 Visiting the beautiful Hickey Falls in Coonabarabran

“We didn’t know weaving was this mad” 🤣
During mentoring students looking through the garden for things that inspired them to use to carve designs. Once they had a few things they connected them with weaving and went to work. They loved it!

Nhama birraliigal ganunga ngarringilanhi garay winangaldaygu. Burrul garay ganugu maaru guwaaldanhi ASLA method gimubildandaay. Gamilu wadhudhi wurudhaay.

All these kids sat together to listen to language.
A lot of words, all them spoke well while doing ASLA before going into caves.

Shout out to GCA Mentor for sunning the lesson.

Carving Up 〰️ Some of the students have stepped into lino carving during mentoring as they learn how to tell story through art.

Visiting Moore Creek Caves 🌳

Check out these fresh new GCA hats!!! Today students were excited to receive our latest range merch. The artwork being used has been inspired by GCA Alumni Nahum Johnson, Kobe Single, and Tom Gwalter.

These hats have been made possible through a collaboration with 🔥🔥

Inside Moore Creek Caves 🔦 Today students learnt about langauge and kinship before visiting the special cave system out in Moore Creek. Daruka is all special Country that holds big story 🐍

Using art to share story 🎨 Students have been working with mentors to put paint in canvas and finding their own style of storytelling. We are looking forward to seeing these as the progress.

Following the process 🍥 Students spent term 1 learning how to identify, source and split grasses in preparation for weaving. They have spent the last two weeks practicing the stitch with rafia.

Mentoring 🎨 Students have been spending time in their weekly mentoring learning about how art is used to tell story.

Grandfather & Grandson ❤️ Walking through the Dhiiyaan Centre students found plenty of photos and stories of the family, many of them they had not seen before

Can you spot the students at the Gwydir Wetlands??

Stunning drone photo taken by as the students walked the black soil banks of the Gwydir Wetlands in the holidays.

A boneyard created by Biya - The Whistling Kite 🦅
Students walking the Gwydir Wetlands came across a large scatter of yabby, frog, snake, lizard and fish bones under a massive tree. Biya could be heard flying around the wetlands looking for more food to bring back to its massive nest.

Moree Art Trail 🪃 Students admiring the beautiful carvings by Chris Roberts while in Moree in the holidays.

Strong Women = Stronger Communities 🔥

Congratulations to everyone involved. It’s great to see so many you girls and including some of our GCA Alumni sharing their story through art.