'Documentary of the first twelve months of the Strong Culture, Strong Community program depicting how the projects gave a voice and responded to the needs of the Southern Wheatbelt communities throught the arts. The objective

?This publication and accompanying documentaries are a dialogue between Noongar Elders and young people collated as part of the Cultural Mapping and Community Governance project led by CAN and the Gnaala Karla Booja (GKB) Native Title Working Party over three years. Karla Kurliny – Coming Back Home is a beautifully produced publication that pays tribute to the GKB Elders and young people who generously shared their time, stories and cultural knowledge for the project.

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.

In 2009, oral historian Mary Anne Jebb and radio producer, Bill Bunbury assisted Noongar people of the Central Eastern Wheatbelt to record and share their life stories.  The resulting three programs provide a moving insight

CAN WA set out to inspire a group of teenagers from the Wheatbelt to learn their traditional Noongar language. The project brought together a team of talented Aboriginal performing artists who used contemporary music and media as

"Over the last three years Healing Songs has brought together Elders and young people who have shared their songs about life, love and country."--Book foreword.
The CD/DVD album is a culmination of a three-year Healing Songs music workshop program with the communities of Quairading and Kellerberrin. Working alongside professional artists, 10 local first-time performers turned their heartfelt personal stories into professionally recorded songs. The beautiful collection of original ballads compiled in the album tells tales of love, loss, life, culture and country. Some songs have been more than 50 years in the making.--CAN WA website

In 2015, CAN and the Shire of Goomalling delivered a program to rediscover, record and celebrate the stories of the Aboriginal families who lived on the Goomalling Reserve and in local missions and bush camps.

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