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Yorta Yorta binita & garra. Multi lineal Indigenous Custodian. Koorie , Māori , East Asian , SWANA , Celt , Dr. [email protected]

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Yaraan Bundle is walking on Djab Wurrung land, located alongside the Western Highway just outside of Ararat, to reclaim her land and stop the logging of Naram Naram Sacred Womens Country.

This is a sacred women’s land, a site of vast cultural significance to the Djab Wurrung Peoples. It is the site of centuries-old birthing trees, including the Grandmother Tree, where many generations of Djab Wurrung women gave birth.

Come down to support, dm @djabwurrung for details

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I’m speechless with horror at what we have witnessed.

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HAPPENING NOW 🚨⚠️

Yaraan Bundle is walking on Djab Wurrung land, located alongside the Western Highway just outside of Ararat, to reclaim her land and stop the logging of Naram Naram Sacred Womens Country.

This is a sacred women’s land, a site of vast cultural significance to the Djab Wurrung Peoples. It is the site of centuries-old birthing trees, including the Grandmother Tree, where many generations of Djab Wurrung women gave birth.

Come down to support, dm for details

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Posting this beautiful memory of our last Creators Circle gathering @commongroundfirstnations because I just looked at the photos again and….. cutteeee 🖤

Being along the river feels like the most loving second home to me #yortayortacountry

These photos are taken by the deadly @anthonysmith.film 💞

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Our ever witnessing Liam Lynch took a final breath with the new moon.

Liam, held 'with-ness'. At the right time, the right place, always with sacred looking instrument in hand.

With the moment. With the music. With the gathering. With us.

He loved reminding me that we met at THAT Oppikoppi. 2001. He would describe the Moodphase5ive moment as if we are all still there. And we are. In the way that he could take the picture.

Pic 2 Liam asked me to pause for a moment, against the Longkloof studios wall. It was late. I'd just arrived. I was newly pregnant with my daughter Yin. About to step into the room to record with Wally Badarou, Aloe Blacc, Ben Zinc, Black Coffee. Red Bull Music Academy 2008. We made music and magic until the wee hours.

Pic 3, September 2023. My back is turned towards Liam and I am unaware that he is quietly witnessing another magical pause that would keep unfolding into more magic, adventure, blessing, bliss, on that full moon night.
(We would end up getting locked in at the fort, find our way out, then squeeze into the tiniest car with 5 other humans for the most surreal ride from castle through city. I don't know how Liam folded his long body into the car, but he did. I just remember growing long arms, trying to hold us all together. On a night we almost died, and didn't, yet somehow felt like something new was born.)

I have such good memories of our gentle friend. I will miss so much, our talks on life in the contemporary colony, shared roots in the Southern African Irish diaspora and that he spelled my surname correctly, with the Irish 'e'.
We spoke of Growing Potatoes, Giant Mythology, the Celtic Medicine, the Thwasa, the Music. The Ancestors. Learning Irish Gaelic with Molly. Ma Afrika. Healing.

Go raibh maith agat Liam, for always getting the coordinates right. Feeling the magic. Sensing where the lines intersect and capturing those points. Just there.
I hope to hold your book of magic in my hands soon. You witnessed us all in this country's musical rebirth.

Thank you to your people for sharing you with us. Comfort to all who love you.

You are so deeply loved and respected Liam @liamlynchphoto ✨
You are One with All Love now

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Gugu Dindi Gunyah part 2 of 2.

It was a privilege to be official photographer for Gugu Dindi Gunyah: Many Rivers, One Home. A powerful celebration of culture, resilience and collective belonging, shaped by rivers, songline, ancestral stories and shared memory. Kutcha Edwards, Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta and Nari Nari Songman, shared the stage with Song Keepers and cultural custodians from across the south-east nations:

- Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO (Yorta Yorta / Yuin)
- Wayne Thorpe (Gunnai)
- Alice Skye (Wergaia / Wemba Wemba)
- Stacie Nicholson-Piper (Wurundjeri, Dja Dja Wurrung and Ngurai-Illum Wurrung)
- Neil Morris (Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Multi-lineal Indigenous Sovereign Custodian)
- Boorook – Brett Clarke (Kerray Woorroong)

Directed by Kylie Belling (Yorta Yorta, Wiradjuri and South Sea Islander), the stage evoked Country itself – alive and changing beneath the performers through images gathered from each of the Song Keepers’ Countries by cinematographer Cam Matheson and animated by video artist Michael Carmody.
Jason Tamiru (Yorta Yorta), keeper of fire and knowledge holder, carried the spirit of old Country. Like the river guides the journey, Tegan Murdock (Barkinji, Maurara / Yorta Yorta, Dhudhuroa) guided the performance through a lens of cultural practice, ceremony and weaving.

Tegan wove the fish trap, dancers Brent Watkins (Gunai / Kurnai and Noongar /Yamatji), Phil Egan (Mutti Mutti and Yorta Yorta) and Teena Moffat (Yorta Yorta, Gunai / Kurnai and Gunditjmara) wove songline and stories together.

Feel free to tag where you can.

#gugudindigunyah #melbourne #livemusic @artscentremelbourne @nikonaustralia @cityofmelbourne

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It was a privilege to be official photographer for Gugu Dindi Gunyah: Many Rivers, One Home. A powerful celebration of culture, resilience and collective belonging, shaped by rivers, songline, ancestral stories and shared memory. Kutcha Edwards, Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta and Nari Nari Songman, shared the stage with Song Keepers and cultural custodians from across the south-east nations:

- Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO (Yorta Yorta / Yuin)
- Wayne Thorpe (Gunnai)
- Alice Skye (Wergaia / Wemba Wemba)
- Stacie Nicholson-Piper (Wurundjeri, Dja Dja Wurrung and Ngurai-Illum Wurrung)
- Neil Morris (Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Multi-lineal Indigenous Sovereign Custodian)
- Boorook – Brett Clarke (Kerray Woorroong)

Directed by Kylie Belling (Yorta Yorta, Wiradjuri and South Sea Islander), the stage evoked Country itself – alive and changing beneath the performers through images gathered from each of the Song Keepers’ Countries by cinematographer Cam Matheson and animated by video artist Michael Carmody.
Jason Tamiru (Yorta Yorta), keeper of fire and knowledge holder, carried the spirit of old Country. Like the river guides the journey, Tegan Murdock (Barkinji, Maurara / Yorta Yorta, Dhudhuroa) guided the performance through a lens of cultural practice, ceremony and weaving.

Tegan wove the fish trap, dancers Brent Watkins (Gunai / Kurnai and Noongar /Yamatji), Phil Egan (Mutti Mutti and Yorta Yorta) and Teena Moffat (Yorta Yorta, Gunai / Kurnai and Gunditjmara) wove songline and stories together.

Feel free to tag where you can.

#gugudindigunyah #melbourne #livemusic @artscentremelbourne @nikonaustralia @cityofmelbourne

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It’s here. This Saturday 3 October we welcome the reopening of the Ian Potter State Theatre as a historic place of gathering, ceremony and storytelling with the world-premiere of Gugu Dindi Gunyah (Many Rivers, One Home).

Following nearly two years of closure for refurbishment, our biggest stage will host a celebratory night of song and performance on the ancestral lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation.

Curated by Mutti Mutti, Nari Nari, and Yorta Yorta Songman, Kutcha Edwards, the evening will feature songs of culture, resilience and collective belonging, sung entirely in the Aboriginal languages of Song Keepers from across Victoria.

See you this weekend for a celebration.

Gugu Dindi Gunyah
3 October | Ian Potter State Theatre

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On Saturday night we officially celebrated the reopening of the Ian Potter State Theatre with Gugu Dindi Gunyah.

Meditative, reflective and meticulously curated by Mutti Mutti, Nari Nari and Yorta Yorta Songman Kutcha Edwards, the evening was one for the history books. Featuring songs of culture, resilience and collective belonging, sung entirely in the Aboriginal languages of Song Keepers from across Victoria, the world premiere of Gugu Dindi Gunyah was magical.

Celebrations continue at Arts Centre Melbourne this weekend with Housewarming weekend. Even if you don’t have a ticket to the performance happening on the Ian Potter State Theatre stage, there will be plenty to do, including free entry to our ENCORE! exhibition, food trucks, roving performers, a laser-light show and more.

Jump on the waitlist and you might even nab a ticket to the big show. Find out more at link in bio.

Photos: @tjgarvie

#GuguDindiGunyah #IanPotterStateTheatre #ArtsCentreMelbourne

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Gugu Dindi Gunyah. / Many Rivers, One Home.
@kutchaedwards Songman 3/10/2026

The river is ever present, never silent.
A carrier of memory, lore and connection.
Holding ancestral knowledge and guiding the journey of return.

A small collection of stills I took of this powerful ceremony.

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Gugu Dindi Gunyah ~ Many Rivers

A special Ceremony with Uncle to re-open the Ian Potter state theatre.

Everyone singing their song lines in language while I weave it all together, special and emotional moment for me.
Hearing language my old people weren’t allowed to speak and weaving while listening to that made me so emotional on stage. Just sitting there thinking about what it would be like if parts of us weren’t taken, but lucky we are still here keeping it alive. 👣

Thank you for the biggest honour uncle ❤️
@kutchaedwards

📸- @djaambi_
Wearing sister - @lillardiabriggshouston
Makeup by - Mia Murdock 🥰✨

#ngumpieweaving #ceremony #family

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