New Wayfinders

23/05/2019

We are so excited to announce that New Wayfinders will be taking part in the 2020 Next Wave Festival. Congratulations to Florence Folole Tupuola, Peter Lemalu, Ripley Kavara, Bella Waru, Vicki Kinai and Yasbelle Kerkow who will be a part of this project!

Special shoutout to Ripley, who attended the intensive on our behalf!

08/05/2019

CASTING CALL:

Our friends at Blackbirds are looking for some part for an upcoming play on Gadigal Country.
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Parts:

VITOLINA - Tokelauan, mid 20’s-early 30’s, female. VITOLINA is our heroine, and daughter of HEHILIA.

FATIA - Tokelauan/European, mid 20’s-early 30’s, male. FATIA is a journalist for SkyNews.

MAY - Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, mid 20’s-early 30’s, female. MAY is an air hostess for Fiji Airways.-

HEHILIA - Tokelauan, 50’s-60’s, female. Mother of VITOLINA.

PRIME MINISTER - Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander or South Sea Islander, early 30’s, male or female.

NEWS EDITOR/ANCHOR - Any ethnicity, mid 20’s, female. Works for SkyNews.
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For more details and to apply, follow the link below:

https://www.black-birds.net/te-molimau-casting-call

06/02/2019

We have a Soundcloud channel! We were fortunate to sit a podcast workshop at SIGNAL Arts with Anja Kanngieser last weekend. Check out the pilot episodes in the link below featuring various members:

https://soundcloud.com/new-wayfinders

Also, check out more of the good work Anja does:

https://anjakanngieser.com/

Looking forward to making more content!

Listen to New Wayfinders | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.

06/02/2019

NWF would like to express their solidarity with the indigenous Maori of Aotearoa this Waitangi Day

30/01/2019

Hiya! If you were at the Invasion Day rally on the weekend you might have seen or heard this petition going around.

"Help Tanya Day’s family honour the legacy of their mother. Sign up now to send a message to the Victorian Government to change Victoria’s destructive public drunkenness laws and create genuine community health alternatives to incarceration."

Please sign, when you can !

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/end-aboriginal-deaths-in-custody?source=direct_link&

Help Tanya Day’s family honour the legacy of their mother. Sign up now to send a message to the Victorian Government to change Victoria’s destructive public drunkenness laws and create genuine community health alternatives to incarceration. In December 2017, Aunty Tanya Day, a proud Yorta Yorta ...

25/01/2019

New Wayfinders would like to express its solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders communities in the lead up to Invasion Day. As first nations peoples of the Moana/Solwara, our ancestors would have acknowledged the ancestors of the lands on which we now reside. We would like to encourage our Pasifika community members to attend an Invasion Day rally that are taking place around the country. More information and links to event pages can be found here:

https://www.welcometocountry.org/australia-day-invasion-day-protest-2019

Of course for many reasons you may not be able to attend a rally in person, here are some organisations that you can donate too:

Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (this link also has more information about where you can donate) -
https://www.invasionday.org

Indigenous Literacy Foundation - https://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/

The Free the People Campaign by Sisters Inside - https://www.gofundme.com/bfvnvt-freethepeople

Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group & Grandmothers Against Removal - http://www.landjustice.com.au/

Wangan and Jangalingou Family Council (who are currently fighting Adani) - http://wanganjagalingou.com.au/donate/

Image reposts via Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - WAR and Colour Code