•KAPULULANGU'S WOMEN'S CULTURE LEARNING CAMP
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Introducing the Camp
Kapululangu's Board of Elders and Directors is inviting 15 women to:
Live with them in their Women’s Law House on Balgo Women’s Law Ground
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Live in and with their Remote Aboriginal Desert Community
for seven days in August.
The Women's Culture Learning Camp is open to Indigenous and Non-Indigenous women.
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Kapululangu's aims are to achieve:
Provide an opportunity for Cultural Awakening
Improved Indigenous/Non-Indigenous relations
Honouring the Women Elders & their Law
Pride in Cultural Heritage by young Aboriginals
Resilient Indigenous people > Strong Community
Income generating for local women
Increase Kapululangu’s economic sustainability
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The Activities you will enjoy include:
•Welcome Ceremony
Women’s Ceremony
•Traditional Healing
•Traditional Body-Painting
•Dancing and Song
•Sand-drawing Stories
•Hunting and Bush Foods
•Look around Country
•Camping out Overnight
•Culture Workshops
•Arts and Crafts
•and much more….
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What you will receive
7 days Indigenous-led Women’s Culture Learning Program
•Unique opportunity to live with Women Elders on Women’s Law Ground
•Participation in Women’s Ceremonies and customary activities under guidance of Indigenous Cultural Knowledge Custodians
•Intimate experience of a remote Indigenous desert community
Develop one-on-one relationship with Women Elders & their Apprentices
•Cultural Awareness Workshops led by Culturally-skilled facilitator with 10 years experience in the community
•Safe Place to Unlearn Your Racism with an on-site qualified Counsellor
Training to be a Tilitja / Culture Worker
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How much will it cost?
Participation Fee:
Participation fee is $2500 (Australian).
This covers:
your accommodation and food
payment to the Elders as your teachers, and
makes a financial contribution to Kapululangu to enable the Elders to teach their young people.
Costs you must cover:
You are responsible for organising and paying the costs of:
Your travel to and from Balgo (including flights and car-hire - you must bring a 4Wheel Drive diesel vehicle to Balgo)
your swag/bedding and personal care requirements (it can be cold at night)
any special food you might require (in addition to the food supplied by the Camp)
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Travelling to Balgo
Balgo is located 650km south of Kununurra, and 290km south of Halls Creek.
It is 975km from Broome, via Halls Creek. It is 825 north-west of Alice Springs. The road between Kununurra and Halls Creek is bitumen, as is the road between Broome and Halls Creek. The road between Halls Creek and Balgo is dirt - drive in convoy advised. The road between Alice Springs and Balgo is all dirt and is not advised.
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Camp Reading List
Before coming to Balgo you must read:
Zohl déIshtar. Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women’s Law(Spinifex Press, 2005)
This is the story of Kapululangu Aboriginal Women's Association and its work since 1999.
We also strongly recommend that you read…
Yasmine Musharbash. Yuendumu Everyday. Contemporary Life in Remote Aboriginal Australia. (Aboriginal Studies Press. 2008)
Diane Bell. Daughters of the Dreaming. (Spinifex Press)
Francoise Dussart. The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement. Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000).
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See IMPORTANT INFORMATION about the Camp for Participants in the side panel
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If you are interested in attending the Camp
please email:
ceo@kapululangu.org
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