The May 7-10th 2019 Program: TO BE DEVELOPED
Below is an overview of activities:
Elders welcome participants to the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area. The welcome includes a smoking ceremony and explanation of cultural rules and protocols.
Elders and mentors stay over the course of the three day conference and participate in story telling and cultural training such as respect, law. Students will then have the opportunity during the three days to talk and listen to Elders about culture and history, as well as to participate in language lessons and bush food cooking.
In the evenings we engage in sessions with Traditional Owner Elders and key mentors in a variety of activities – artwork, singing, language, cooking, storytelling, stars.
The students spend their mornings (or afternoon) delivering their study presentations rotating every 40 minutes to either present or learn with other participants.
In the afternoon (or morning) students take part in one of four tours as well as a sunset tour to the “Walls of China”. Tours give participants an insight into key aspects of the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area / Mungo National Park and include
World Heritage
Tour of interpretation centre and work sites to show employment opportunities in Willandra World heritage area in management, conservation and education
Spirituality
A visit to the Walls of China at sunset and stargazing with Elders after dark
Archaeology
Archaeologists and Discovery Rangers conduct investigations and demonstrate how to interpret and understand the landscape and artefacts of interest
Pastoralists
Tour of the ZANCI woolshed, sheep shearing and explanation of their history and involvement in management
Student music dance & theatre
Come prepared because after dinner on the last night, schools or individuals are invited to showcase their performance talents in dance, singing, music and art.
The camp is adjacent to massive sandhill and an area excavated by Isabel McBryde in 1968 that contains one of Australia’s earliest dated freshwater middens (Bowler 1998), and is nearby to one of the oldest sites on the planet with evidence of ceremony, ritual burials and cremations.