Ngaluk Waangkiny
Stories of resilience
Meaning ‘Us Talking’ in Noongar, Ngaluk Waangkiny is a landmark, multi-media storytelling project designed to honour and preserve the legacy of Elders. Ten respected Elders from Boorloo (Perth) have collaborated with Community Arts Network to share their life journeys as part of this truth-telling project. Their stories are poignant, powerful and at times heartbreaking and harrowing – but they have been laid bare so that future generations are aware of Australia’s often hidden Black history.
“I’m always talking to young people and saying – look, you have your old people at home and they are your library. Go and talk to them and find out as much as you can.” Uncle Noel Nannup
Artists: Cole Baxter, Hugh Sando, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger, Tyrown Waigana, Phil Walleystack and Ian Wilkes
Exhibition developed by Community Arts Network
CAN is an arts producer working at the forefront of Community Arts and Cultural Development (CACD). For over 40 years, CAN has partnered with communities to share stories, histories and experiences that are unwritten or unspoken. Making visible the invisible, this work breaks through the silence arising from systemic disempowerment to share the daily acts of resistance and resilience that underpin survival in underrepresented communities. Through this process CAN creates compelling art and storytelling that has broad reach beyond the communities where it is produced, realising the vision of a creatively dynamic, inclusive Australia.
- Previously AtMuseum of the Goldfields (WA)21st February - 28th April 2025
- Previously At: Arts Narrogin (WA)19th June - 31st July 2025
- Previously At: Margaret River HEART – Nala Bardip Mia (Our Story House) (WA)2nd July - 31st July 2026
Map showing NETS exhibition tour locations across Australia. A text list of the locations follows.
- Museum of the Goldfields (WA)
- Arts Narrogin (WA)
- Margaret River HEART – Nala Bardip Mia (Our Story House) (WA)