Media Program
The ALC Media program is a pathway to story-telling and creativity through digital media. Its aim is to empower, preserve culture and develop Warnamamalya access and skill sets across moving and still imagery. It’s an open program accessible to traditional owners who shape both it’s content and direction.
Media training, equipment and facilities provided Warnumamlya with the capacity to record stories, songs, ceremonies and events. The media created can be used for cultural learning, archiving, entertainment, communication, promotion and empowerment. Productions are released through national broadcasts, online platforms, in print and at film and arts festivals.
The media program works across the whole archipelago with dedicated media spaces in Umbakumba, Angurugu and Milyakburra. These creative spaces provide traditional owners with access to computers with media software and training. The spaces are also access points for a digital archival project with around 60 years and countless hours worth of media being collated and accessible for viewing, learning and extracting.
What a night! Angurugu Healing Festival 22. #GrooteEylandt #Angurugu #Umbakumba #Milyakburra #nimAwards #musicNT #Anindilyakwa #GrooteBroadcasting #AnindilyakwaLandCouncil
Final touches on a music video with Ryan Lalara and family and that’s Alberston from Media on the gimbal. #GrooteEylandt #nimAwards #Anindilyakwa #Angurugu #staydeadly
Yiraka-men Adrick and Jonah from the ALC Music Program are on Angurugu’s new stage making this place sound great!
#Angurugu #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt #Yiraka #didjeridoo #musicNt #nimAwards #EylandtBand
The successful removal of a giant foreign fishing net off the south coast of Groote Eylandt. Foreign nets drift down towards the Groote archipelago during the monsoon season and cause both environmental havoc and biosecurity risks. A big job done right by the Anindilyakwa Land & Sea Rangers; collaborating with the Groote Holdings Aboriginal Corporation on the barge, and GEBIE Civil & Construction providing the loader. The project is part of Parks Australia’s Ghost Net Initiative with Australian Fisheries Management Authority and Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. We have a film of the operation coming soon.
@ausmarineparks #GrooteEylandt #NorthernTerritory #Ghostnet #Alyangula #RemoteNt #Anindilyakwa #CountryNeedsPeople #NorthernTerritoryFishing #northernterritorygovernment #ntfish #northernterritoryau #northernterritoryparksandwildlife
Happy International Women’s Day and congratulations on a great event organised by the Groote Eylandt Milyakburra Strong Womens Group @thearc.grooteeylandt #GrooteEylandt #Anindilyakwa #Strongwomen @anindilyakwa_arts
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Amathea Mamarika’s incredible journey in radio. Now station manager with @grootebroadcasting Amathea keeps Warnumamalya informed, safe and of course entertained. The power of bilingual radio. #Umbakumba #GrooteEylandt #RadioUmbakumba
“We didn’t come here for no reason, we came here to tell stories!” -Edith Mamarika. Shots from our oral history recording camp at Dalumba Bay. The project aims to return elders to faraway places and keep stories alive. Knowledge is recorded through different mediums and passed on to future generations. #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt #PreservingCulture #LandCouncil #RemoteNT #Anthropology
Yinungwambaka: giant clam shell from Sth Point with Alberston and Trenix. #GrooteEylandt #Anindilyakwa #AnindilyakwaCountry
Have a good weekend family. If you’re in #Numbulwar for festival have fun. If you’re hunting good luck and be safe. Yawu #GrooteEylandt #Anindilyakwa #Angurugu #Umbakumba #Milyakburra
Marcia Mamarika revealing a bush dyed silk scarf in #Umbakumba with @anindilyakwa_arts #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt #indigenousfashionprojects
Show stopping! Maicie Lalara makes a final circle of the runway that was Country to Couture ‘21 in a dirija (dress) by Edith Mamarika a collaboration between @anindilyakwa_arts & @artistannareynolds for @indigenousfashionprojects @darwinartfair #anindilyakwa #countrytocouture2021 #GrooteEylandt #Angurugu #Umbakumba #Milyakburra #indigenousfashionprojects
Learning on Country with a few good men. #GrooteEylandt #Angurugu #Umbakumba #Anindilyakwa #AjindilyakwaMedia #bushfitmob #gebieGANG
Angwala aduwaba (Crab today). #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt
Alukwanja yada Mamarika emeba. Traditional dance for the Mamarika dry season south-easterly wind. #BarungaFest21 #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt #Traditionaldance
Alukwanja paintup at the Anindilyakwa camp. @barungafest #BarungaFest21 #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt #Traditionaldance
Artists Bevan, Elvis, Dennis and Rylson carving up creations this week with @anindilyakwa_arts & master wood carver Hape Kiddle. 📸Rylson Lalara
“Good to have Bakala in here at Media. Bakala is the man who started making culture films for Warnamamalya and has got a lot of ideas.” -Rylson Lalara. #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt #Angurugu #NorthernTerritory
Alawudawarra: story. Milly Mamarika on the camera sharing some wonderful stories. Stories we are working on and will share digitally soon. Yo Eningaba! #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt #Umbakumba
Serena Bara modelling in @anindilyakwa_arts fashion parade for #internationalwomensday hosted by Groote Eylandt & Milyakburra Strong Women’s group. #GrooteEylabdt #Anindilyakwa
Macie and Marcia sharing a moment while out on country collecting mangkurrkwa (pandanus). Happy International Women’s Day to all of the amazing women of the Groote Archipelago and around the world. #iwd2021 #anindilyakwaarts #GrooteEylandt #Anindilyakwa
For more information on permits required to film or research on Groote Eylandt, visit our Permits page.