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A group of Noonkanbah girls go looking for bush tucker but one of them eats a poisoned fruit even though the others warn her. Soon, she turns into Animal Girl -- an al-foil crazed white haired girl with bulging eyes, razor sharp teeth and super-long fingernails! The others must hit her over the head and knock the spirit out of her!

Werte! Unte mwerre? Hello, how are you? This song teaches us how to greet each other in Central/Eastern Arrernte. Based on an old Arrernte nursery rhyme Werte! is a brand new tune with rocking desert guitar and kids call-and-response.

How do you greet each other in the First Languages where you live?

'Werte!', is the opening track of Ampe-Kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground) Band’s new album, Ampe-mape Alyelheme (Kid’s Sing) that teaches and celebrates Arrernte language and culture through music. 

At Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground Central Australia), we as First Nations people are creating resources for children in our own language. We have been writing children’s books and songs that speak about our culture, country, families and language. We want our kids to grow up with music and educational resources that reflect their culture – that can help them to learn, respect, speak, read, write, and sing in their First Language. 

We started this to keep our language strong, and it's grown into something everybody can enjoy and learn from. Join us to learn our language through our music.

Kele! 

Language: Eastern/Central Arrernte

Song Lyrics written by Amanda Turner, Carol Turner
 
Music Written by: William “Nookie” Lowah, Myles Turner, Harry James Angus

Lyric Video created by: Mitchell Doolan and Damon Van Der Schuit

Supported by the Australian Government Indigenous Languages and the Arts Program
 
About Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground Central Australia): 

Children’s Ground is a First Nations organisation creating a different future for the next generation of First Nations children. We believe every child born today should experience a lifetime of opportunity and grow up strong in their identity and culture, free from injustice and economic poverty. 

www.childrensground.org.au

After a welcome song, Keriba ged nor e, by women beating snake-skin drums, young women perform traditional dances from Murray Island in the Torres Strait depicting daily life in the islands: Guba (Looking for fish with bow and arrows) and Yarriba ba (Finding the food).

A cultural film about the tradition of grinding seeds for food.

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ICTV's Community Bulletin Board changes each week to advertise community events.

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'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund.

The mountain Balgan, otherwise known as Pigeon House Mountain, is a sacred place from which many stories come from. This dreamtime story is from the Budawang people, one of the thirteen kinship groups in the Yuin area that speak the Dhurga language.

Hilda Nambula from Wilora makes music sticks/clapsticks and talks about the tools she uses.

This video was made as part of Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi's Culture Program.

Visit waltja.org.au to learn more

You can buy slapsticks like the ones in the video from Waltja's Arts Social Enterprise www.waltja.org.au/shop

A Kuarna Language short-short course from Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.

Kaurna language and culture is the property of the Kaurna community. For more information visit: www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/