$55,000 to Waralungku Arts Centre

Accessibility and Maintenance

Supporting essential upgrades and improvements to the Waralungku Arts Centre to ensure accessibility of the centre and improve the appearance of the centre by painting the facade.  

$15,000 to Flinders University

Jakarda wuka (Too many stories): narratives of rock art from Yanyuwa Country

Funding to publish a book about Yanyuwa rock art found throughout the Sir Edward Pellew Islands. This project was instigated by the Yanyuwa Families Group and involves the collection and documentation of the many stories and songs associated with these places.

$25,980 to Waralungku Arts Centre

Training and Events 

Enabling the ongoing promotion and professional development for the artists of Waralungku Arts Centre by providing funding to help them to attend various events and training opportunities across the NT. This allows further sales of artworks and promotion of the arts centre among the arts network. 

$14,100 to Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre

Four Clans Exhibition

Funding to support the Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre to host the Four Clans Exhibition as their first exhibition of 2022. This involved many art pieces from the Waralungku Arts Centre in Borroloola, including the Four Clans Artwork, being put on display at the exhibition in Katherine. 

$7,200 to Waralungku Arts Centre

Grounds Maintenance Equipment

Funding to support the purchase of maintenance equipment to continue to keep the grounds of the Arts Centre clean and tidy for artists and visitors.

$65,659 to Monash University

Duwarra Wujara (Two Young Men)

Instigated by senior Yanyuwa Elders, the project has produced one of the most important Dreaming stories for the South West Gulf of Carpentaria in 3D animation as a process of preserving intangible cultural heritage in the region. 

$9,600 to Waralungku Arts Centre

Four Clans Artwork

Funding for the production of a large scale four-clan collaborative painting.

For more information refer to Case Studies.

$12,000 to Borroloola School

Growing our Culture program

This grant provides support to run Cultural Days at the Borroloola School with senior community members.

$15,000 to National Trust of Australia (NT) – Gulf Branch

National Trust Police Museum

Security and storage upgrades for the Borroloola Old Police Station Museum.

$300,681 to Artback NT

Remote Arts and Culture Program

A further three years funding to support the employment of a Remote Arts and Culture Program Coordinator to coordinate cultural programs.

$19,257 to Borroloola School Council

Borroloola School Indigenous Hip Hop Projects

Empowering students through Indigenous hip hop projects, song and dance workshops and performance.

For more information refer to Case Studies.

$60,000 to National Trust

Upgrade of Old Police Station

Upgrade of the facility for the upcoming anniversary to create a space for events and displays.

$53,205 to MAWA

Robinson River Historical Project 

This project collated ancestral knowledge and history passed on to the current Garrawa community to share knowledge and history and potential tourist interest in the Robinson River Community.

$47,050 to Parks and Wildlife

Rock Art Protection

This grant was provided for the protection of Aboriginal art sites in the Limmen National Park. The program employed local Indigenous people to work alongside of Parks and Wildlife staff to identify and protect art sites of significance.

$91,300 to Artback NT

Borroloola Cultural Events & Arts Engagement Officer

This grant provided of the continuing employment of a Cultural Events & Arts Engagement Officer. This grant extends on the previous three-year grant to enable the coordination of activities in the community to continue.

$41,535 to Monash University

The Garrwa Stone Country Rock Art Project

This project commenced the recording of rock art sites (cultural heritage) on Garrwa country. The project worked with senior Garrwa Traditional Owners as well as engaging the younger generation in the recording and sharing of culturally significant rock art. The Elders introduced the younger generation to the sites where they used modern technology to preserve and transmit this knowledge.

$79,288 to Barkly Regional Arts Inc

Song Peoples Sessions

An Innovative Indigenous cultural maintenance and language preservation project that recorded the traditional songs of the four local language groups and produced them into contemporary recordings for both archival purposes and the enjoyment of listeners.

For more information refer to Case Studies.

$50,000 to Waralungku Arts Centre

Mabunji Waralungku Arts Exhibition

Assistance to local artists to exhibit Paintings, prints and wooden sculptures which featured in an exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London in July 2011.

$25,000 to Mabunji Aboriginal Resource Centre

Boonu Boonu Festival

Support for the expansion of the 2011 NAIDOC Celebrations to include the Boonu Boonu Festival as the only traditional Indigenous dance festival in the Northern Territory.

$5,000 to Mabunji Aboriginal Resource Centre

NAIDOC Festival

Support the costs associated with the delivery of the NAIDOC festival program in 2010 as an important annual celebration of Indigenous cultural heritage.