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Main Library	Western Australian Museum	700.9941 KRE	Available

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Main Library	Western Australian Museum	700.9941 PAL	Available
Main Library	Western Australian Museum	700.9941 PAL	Available

Contains a sample of photos and three short films created through a series of community-oriented skill based workshops conducted in the four Western Australian Southern Wheatbelt towns of Brookton, Pingelly, Narrogin and Wagin.

This publication introduces 105 local residents who give a candid insight into life in the Wheatbelt through their photo stories and film presentations. The objectives of the project were to foster a sense of belonging and strengthen relationships between Aboriginal families and among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities. The project followed on from Phase 1 of the Voices of the Wheatbelt project where photography, song writing and other artistic workshops were carried out in four other Wheatbelt towns of Quaraiding, Kellerberrin, Tammin and Merredin.

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Main Library	Western Australian Museum	700.9941 VOI	Available
History	Western Australian Museum	700.9941 VOI	Available

In 2016, CAN ran a series of creative workshops with the Northam Yorgas, a social craft group of Noongar women who meet weekly to craft, lunch and yarn.

Weaving workshops and a two-week studio intensive enabled the group

to create hand-printed textiles prints, woven sculptures and other objects featuring Wheatbelt imagery including wildflowers and swans.

Sharing stories of country, childhood recollections and memories of Elders was the central theme of the studio intensive that supported the Yorgas to refine their skills and explore new craft techniques.

The Northam Yorgas’ work became Kwobadak Maar – a temporary, pop-up exhibition that occupied an empty shopfront in the main street of Northam.

The exhibition featured works by Elaine Dickie, the late Norma Garlett, Frances Gillespie, Glenda Kickett, Janet Kickett, Yvonne Kickett, Cindy Moody, Deborah Moody and Sonia Stack.

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Main Library	Western Australian Museum	C/572.994 KWO	Available

In 2014 Bush Babies played a vital role in Moora, where the sharing of stories brought together families who were grieving after many deaths in the community. The Moora community focused on creating textile ‘babies

from the bush’ using a variety of natural materials and ancestral techniques, including eco-dyeing and weaving.

With local Noongar artist Gloria Egan, CAN delivered a series of workshops in New Norcia and Moora where participants shared their stories and created their own ‘bush baby’, each doll with a family story connected to it. It revealed a time in Western Australian history when some Aboriginal people were not permitted to give birth in hospitals.

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Main Library	Western Australian Museum	C/572.994 BOR	Available

The Rock Hole Long Pipe project was a community theatre production staged in Coolgardie in 2008, involving a broad cross section of the Coolgardie and Kambalda communities.

The performance told ancient and traditional

stories of water from the Goldfields and was created by students from Coolgardie and Kambalda in a series of workshops run by animator Steve Aiton, and community artist Poppy van Oorde-Grainger.

The Rock Hole Long Pipe performance was a vibrant, thrilling parade that weaved through the back streets of Coolgardie to the town’s central park and involved actors, musicians, a procession of over 100 students, poets, bikies and the local volunteer fire brigade.

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Main Library	Western Australian Museum	792 CAP	Available

A portrait exhibition co-ordinated by CAN WA (Community Arts Network WA) that celebrates the strength and resilience of 16 Noongar Elders from across the Wheatbelt.
These Elders, who have now been immortalised on canvas, are part of CAN WA’s Bush Babies community arts project, which aims to capture the unique stories of Noongar babies who were born in the bush, reserves, missions or fringes of towns. This was a time in Western Australian history when some Aboriginal people were not permitted to give birth in hospitals.

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Anthropology	Western Australian Museum	C/572.994 BUS	Available
Main Library	Western Australian Museum	C/572.994 BUS	Available

Working with Youth Leaders at Edmund Rice Centre WA (ERCWA) in Mirrabooka, Community Arts Network (CAN) held workshops that examined the UDHR, what the rights are, how they affect us and what their relevance is to young people.

Together the young people explored how to represent the 30 articles of human rights through photography and art. Using community arts practice to bring the words of the UDHR to life through the eyes of young people, this booklet transforms a 70 year old document into a contemporary creative form. This was a collaboration between Edmund Rice Centre WA, the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance and CAN.

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Main Library	Western Australian Museum	341.481 UNI	Available

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Main Library	Western Australian Museum	354.9400854 KIN	Available

A compilation of intimate Noongar songs from families in Mandurah, in the South West of Western Australia. The 7 songs were written at Nidjalla Waangan Mia in Mandurah and recorded at the John Butler Studio at Fairbridge.

These songs were further developed with additional musical production by Charmaine Councillor and Phil Bartlett. Written and performed in Noongar by each participant, the songs are a celebration of the spirit of the land, ocean and love.

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Main Library	Western Australian Museum	B/572.994 NGA	Available
Main Library	Western Australian Museum	B/572.994 NGA	Available

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