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Touched by community reception across WA during the inaugural tour in 2008, this project has progressed to reach more communities over a longer period each year, funded mostly through the ventures run by VOW.
VOW works with community Elders, local schools and government agencies in remote communities to coordinate educational workshops in music. These focus on inspiring kids to develop their talents through indigenous role models, bringing live music to remote areas that might never have such events and creating opportunities for local musicians and bands to perform in front of a larger audience.
At the end of the workshops all community members are invited to a live concert. Here we seek to provide a vision for an improved quality of community life through music. You can read a compete journal of the 2008 tour here.
FOCUS Creating Change by Inspiring Hope through music.
OVERVIEW VOW Educational Services Incorporated and the Nindillingarri Cultural Health Services have been working in conjunction with Indigenous community Elders, to coordinate education workshops in music. It is anticipated that the workshops would provide confidence-building opportunities for the local community members, through performances in a safe and supporting, non-smoking, drug and alcohol free environment.
By conducting a series of music workshops held over 2-3 days on each of the several remote Indigenous communities selected to best service the wider communities. The tour is coordinated in association with Wayne Barker (Jowandi) a Yawuru composer, singer and musician, Patrick Davies of Nindillingarri Cultural Health Services and Mark Bin Bakar (Famous Indigenous personality ‘Mary G’), approved by the Community Elders, and in conjunction with the community’s schools. Incorporated into the visits will be a live a concert for each community to bring live music, an opportunity for local musicians to perform alongside renowned artists and to conclude the workshops with an enjoyable community event.
LOCATION The Indigenous facilitators have selected nine communities, to best suit their areas. Four are in the Cape Leveque area, an expanse of land between the Indian Ocean and King Sound an area with some sixty plus communities, and five are in the Fitzroy Crossing area, under the care of the Nindillingarri Cultural Health Services, which are responsible to over 45 Communities. The selected host communities have been strategically chosen to reach as many surrounding communities as possible. An offer has been made by ‘Mary G’ (a radio show host, broadcast nationally into remote communities every Wednesday) to promote the event, thus promoting the event to encourage surrounding communities to attend. Other factors taken into consideration are
It is believed that in this manner over five hundred Indigenous children living in remote areas could have access to the workshops. Creating opportunities for all the existing musician and bands to preform and could potentially be viewed by several hundred-community members during the tour.
OUTLINE In Brief
Expanded Outline To visit a number of remote Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley region to conduct workshops to educate and promote music as a means of self-expression with particular emphasis to alleviate “community” boredom and to provide a vision for improved quality of life through music, without the reliance of alcohol, drugs or violence.
Workshops To conduct a series of workshops facilitated by indigenous and non-indigenous musicians encompassing categories from
Community concert At the end of the workshops to conduct a community concert, held to encourage participation, leadership, companionship; personal development and skills developed throughout the workshops, to create an opportunity for participants display the skills learnt in the category developed and to create an opportunity for established local bands and musicians to preform. Concluded by performance by the touring indigenous and non-indigenous musicians and bands:
DVD production Through participation in the workshops to produce a TV grade quality DVD representing one winner selected by the Indigenous workshop facilitators to represent their community to appear on the Final DVD compilation.
Final Concert After all the proposed communities have been visited, an overall winner will be selected from the finalists on the DVD. The winning act or band will be invited perform alongside a famous artist at the concert. (Offers have been made from Mark Bin Barker to headline the Concert), and will be eligible for a scholarship package to further their career. The final concert organised in conjunction with partners WAM (West Australian Music Industry Association Inc) and ADAS (Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Services) would serve as a large-scale festival type event. Run over a whole day and promoted as an Alcohol Free all day family event.
Outline of days events for each community
Day 1 Music Workshops
Day 2
Day 3
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