Welcome to the Wakakirri Outback Site
You can check out films made by schools involved in the Wakakirri Outback Program by clicking on the images to the right of your screen. Enjoy!
WARNING: "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website may contain images and voices of deceased persons".
What is the Wakakirri Outback Program?
The Outback Program gives Indigenous and non-Indigenous students from remote and regional areas of Australia the opportunity to participate in a national performing and visual arts festival. The program is designed to engage students in their education and to teach them to make healthy lifestyle choices. Outback schools and communities are visited by a team of workshop facilitators from a variety of professional artistic backgrounds who run workshops in script writing, editing and film making. The students create a short film which is screened in front of the whole community at a Cultural Celebration Day. The films then go on tour and are shown at all Wakakirri events across Australia.
Where is the Outback Program going in 2010? The Outback team is re-visiting schools that participated in the 2009 Program and visting a few new ones too!
NSW FESTIVAL: Wilcannia, Broken Hill, Menindee 31st May - 4th June
SA FESTIVAL: Ceduna, Yalata, Penong and Koonibba 21st - 25th June
NT FESTIVAL: Barunga, Katherine, Jilkminggan, Minyerri & Wugularr 9th - 13th August
The Wakakirri Outback Program is tremendously valuable to the lives of Indigenous children in remote areas because of its focus on sustainable living and the opportunity it provides these children to share their stories and experiences with not only one another, but with their community and many other communities around Australia”
Tom Calma, Former Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Social Justice Commisioner and Wakakirri Patron
The Wakakirri Outback Program could not take place without the ongoing support of its major sponsor - The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations: Community Festivals for Education Engagement.
Wakakirri would also like to thank Iluka Resources for their ongoing support of the Ceduna SA Wakakirri Outback Festival.
For more information please CLICK HERE or contact:
Outback Festival Event Manager Anna Bowring on ph: (02) 9557 8807 anna@wakakirri.com