Launch of Nulungu Research Institute’s Talking Heads Seminar Series

You are invited to the Launch of Nulungu Research Institute’s Talking Heads Seminar Series - a community driven, free event for everyone to attend. Wednesday 1st April from 12pm - 1.30pm. OPENING ADDRESS: Emily Carter, CEO of Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre. PRESENTERS: Educators from Baya Gawiy Buga Yani Jandu yani U, Gillian Howell and Annika Moses. A light lunch will be provided from 12pm with the seminar commencing at 12.30pm. To attend, please RSVP to Nulungu Research Institute by email: [email protected]

In September 2025, Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre, Indigenous Literacy Foundation and Tura released Buga Yanu Junba, a songbook and companion album of 22 original songs in Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Walmajarri, and Kimberley Kriol. But where did these songs come from? This presentation traces their origins in a three-year participatory arts-based research project: a collaboration between early childhood educators at Baya Gawiy Buga Yani Jandu yani U in Fitzroy Crossing, facilitators from the Perth-based cultural development organisation Tura, and a researcher-musician from the University of Melbourne as part of Tura's ongoing SoundFX program.The presentation will include performances by songwriters from Buga Yanu Junba and discuss research findings about the wellbeing affordances of language songwriting and singing through a framework of Aboriginal Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing (Martin & Mirraboopa, 2003).

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Artwork: A New Partnership by William Roe, 1994