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.
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
Kembirra aburraja wurrukwala warnungkwarba na-rakbeyinama yiraka (some men are playing the didjeridu) akwa narri-lyakuwardenama alyingba umba wurrukwala na-namebeyinama (and clapping sticks and others are singing.)
Songmen getting ready for @barungafest #Barunga21 #Barungafest21 #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt 📸Alverston Lalara
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
Daniel Ngurruwuthun making Yiraka @anindilyakwa_arts #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt #Yiraka #Didgeridoo
Senior artist Alice Durilla painting the new Anindilyakwa Land Council logo. The work shows Barnimbirra (morning star), Yurnaduwaya (stingray)and Mangwarra (hammerhead shark).
The sweet voices of Percy & Amathea; playing our requests, keeping us happy and informing us of news and events in an extraordinary year. #GrooteEylandt #Anindilyakwa
Rylson Lalara taking Brad & Liam from @skinnyfish_music & @barungafest out on country to talk about Eylandt music and Barunga Festival 2021.
Collecting Pandanus with master weaver & teacher Annabell Amagula. 📸Rylson Lalara @anindilyakwa_arts #GrooteEylandt #AnindilyakwaArts
The legendary Salt Lake Band live on stage at Garrangali Band’s “One Voice” album launch from the Yolngu Homelands of Baniyala. #Baniyala #SaltLakeBand #GarrangaliBand #Yolnguhomelands #Arnhemland #MusicNT #NIMAwards #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt
Eylandt Band performing in Baniyala for Garrangali Band’s album launch. #EylandtBand #GarrangaiBand #Baniyala #NTmusic #NIMAwards #GrooteEylandt #Anindilyakwa #yolngucountry #yolnguradio #Arnhemland
118 Toothbrushes were amongst the truckload of marine debris collected from 8 Mile beach on the annual Clean Up Groote Eylandt Day 2020. In a joint effort between the @anindilyakwarangers @anindilyakwa_arts and over 100 volunteers a difference has been made to one of the beautiful beaches of Groote Eylandt. Full story online at @indigenous_gov #GrooteEylandt #Anindilyakwa #Umbakumba #Angurugu #landandsearangers #countryneedspeople #CUGED @countryneedspeople
Yimenda yinamamuwa. Eylandt Boys making a video about finding turtle eggs.
Northern Territory Treaty Commissioner Prof. Mick Dodson consulting the Warnumamalya of Umbakumba to develop a framework for future Treaty negotiations. #Umbakumba #MickDodson #NtTreatyCommission #Treaty #GrooteEylandt #Anindilyakwa
📸Rylson Lalara
Rylson Lalara from the Media team out on country. #Anindilyakwa #GrooteEylandt #ALCmedia
For more information on permits required to film or research on Groote Eylandt, visit our Permits page.