Bunjum staff and the Mums and Bubs group at Ballina Public School got together with the support of Gary Williams and Anna Ash of Muurrbay to have fortnightly language workshops. Tania Marlowe is shown here using pictures to share language. We also practiced several songs in Bundjalung, which will be shared with Jarjums. If you have any enquiries please contact Tania at Bunjum on 0266 867 215.
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Muurrbay have new email addresses and they are as follows :
ceo@muurrbay.org.au
admin@muurrbay.org.au
Our previous email addresses are still active for the next 10 months, this is to allow us time to let everyone know of the switch over.
Have a great week everybody!
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Muurrbay was recently visited by a group of students of anthropology, linguistics and social work from Sydney University. Lecturers John Hobson and Susan Poetsch organised the fieldwork excursion for the unit: Re-awakening Australian Languages. This unit examines how Indigenous communities are resisting the Australian trend towards monolingualism by reviving their languages. The students also visited several Gumbaynggirr language classes in preschools, pri...
Excerpt from Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation website -
A SALVAGE GRAMMAR AND WORDLIST OF THE LANGUAGE FROM THE HUNTER RIVER AND LAKE MAQUARIE
This work was compiled in response to the need for a practical interpretation of old records about the language from the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie. It has 3 different PDF parts. You can download them by clicking here.
This link will take you directly to Wonnarua Nations Aboriginal Corporation's
Lismore local, Binnie O’Dwyer invited Margaret Sharpe to come to a language workshop in Lismore in April, held at Thelma James’ Bundjalung café ‘Gunnawannabe’. Roy Gordon and other Lismore Elders had a valuable input to the day, welcoming everyone and advising on language matters.
Margaret has worked on the many dialects of Bundjalung language and was keen to help people learn more language, she has recently published an updated dictionary – grammar i
Gary Williams and Anna Ash travelled to Stradbroke Island to attend the 12thAustralian Languages Workshop, hosted by the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland and held at their Moreton Bay Research Station. Thanks Felicity Meakins and Myf Turpin for a fabulous weekend of interesting linguistics and yarning up.
Gary and Anna travelled with Terry Lowe, a Bundjalung woman from Grafton who is studying the Masters of
On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, Gathang community members gathered to celebrate the launch of a new web portal dedicated to the revitalization of their Indigenous language. Media were invited to attend the event, which took place at 2 p.m. in Room AG 03 in the General Education building at Taree TAFE, Montgomery Crescent.
The first of its kind in Australia, the Gathang portal includes a dictionary archive, images and audio, allowing learners to go ...
Where do the names for animals and things come from? Someone at some stage made a decision: we’re going to call this animal a platypus. Actually is was during the late 18th century: from Greek platupous ‘flatfooted,’ from platus ‘flat’ + pous ‘foot.’
So being that it’s an Australian animal, what was it called in Aboriginal Languages?
Many of the languages along the coast of NSW were lost when Aboriginal people were punished and even gaoled ...
Nyamibiin Gaagalnyarr Juluumnyarr - Women from the Sea & the Mountains.
A collection of artworks in felt created by Gumbaynggiir artists, with Swiss Artist Margrit Rickenbach, are exhibiting at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative.
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts' 21st Century Stories, the works reflect the artists' stories and thoughts about changes in the first decade of the 21st Century. A catalogue is availab...
In 2007 Lillian Eastwood from the Guraki Aboriginal Advisory Committee of City of Newcastle Council consulted Muurrbay linguist Amanda Lissarrague outlining the possibility of incorporating local languages from Warrimay (Gathang) and the language from the Hunter River - Lake Macquarie for a public artwork commissioned by the Honeysuckle Development Corporation, Newcastle.
This sculpture designed by Zenscapes Landscape Architects Milne and Stonehouse, re
