Wamba Wamba Community
Program Overview
Community Group/s
Wamba Wamba Nation
When
2016 - onwards
Where
Wamba Wamba Country
Final work
Koorie Culture Map: 2020
Pondi and Muyi: The Wamba Wamba storybook
Multi-touch Book: 2021
Pondi
Animation: 2021
Muyi-Mir
Animation: 2021
Teaching Resources: 2021
The Wamba Wamba people have worked with SharingStories Foundation since 2016. Projects were developed to support community goals, and have produced media enriched cultural content and supported the utilisation of language and culture in the classroom.
In 2016-2019, SharingStories facilitated sharing and learning through multiple digital storytelling workshops between cultural custodians from the Wamba Wamba Community with Swan Hill and Swan Hill North Primary School students who produced wonderful creative interpretations of the knowledge shared.
Over the next two years, the Wamba Wamba are :
- sharing culture and stories through the Koorie Culture Map an interactive map experience
- releasing a multi-touch book Pondi and Muyi: The Wamba Wamba storybook
- releasing the Pondi animation narrated in Wamba Wamba
- releasing the Muyi-Mir animation narrated in Wamba Wamba
Community Members
Uncle Ron Murray (Senior Custodian/ Storyteller), Aunty Stephanie Charles (Senior Custodian) and Sandra Kropinyeri (Cultural Custodian/ Education).