Out Bush

Yesterday a group of artists from the Art Centre, some visitors from Tennant Creek and the 'Picture this Project' workers had an opportunity of going out bush. After walking across country searching for goanna we slowly headed back to eat freshly cooked damper - Valerie had made a really great one - and drink some wonderful hot tea.

Photo 1 - l to r, Maureen O'Keefe, Jennifer Nelson. The little dog is Smoky, Maureen's faithful companion.
Photo 2 - Maureen O'Keefe talking about bush plants.

Some more 'Picture This' Pics

Photos: top, Jimmy Friday. Bottom: Peggy Small, Margaret Small.

Making Music

If you live in Ali-Curang you probably know that there is a great band regularly meeting and playing bluegrass and gospel music and that they are based at the Ali-Curung Gospel Church.

This morning we met with band members including Lenny Nelson (above), Jock Riley, Jimmy Friday, Peggy Small and Margaret Small. It was the band's first recording session. There was a fair bit of equipment to organise and we had to rig up a few blankets to block out the bright sunshine to make sure there wasn't too much light for the video. We were really pleased to be working with Lenny particularly as we had already met and spoken with his father, Mr Nelson and his sister Valerie who works and paints at the Art Centre.



Jock got dressed up for the occasion - you can see he looks pretty deadly!


Jock Riley

The band got some good rhythms going and the recording session started. We had an unexpected audience when some family members arrived and the grandchildren snuck in -nobody can resist a good beat.

Picture This at Ali-Curung

Welcome to our 'Picture This' blog and story. 'Picture This' is a digital storytelling and video project based at Ali-Curung community,about an hour and a half south of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, Australia.



The project was initiated by Barkly Arts, in particular Lorna Martin (now Arts Co-ordinator at Ali-Curung) and is funded by Arts NT. Two project workers, digital storyteller Daryll Bellingham and project assistant, Karen Tunny are based at the Ali-Curung artists space where they are working closely with Elders, artists and other community members to tell their personal and community stories.