Solid Ground

02/06/2025

Last week we took our students to watch Erskine Park High artist in resident N***y perform with .percent at the . Thank you to everyone who made this possible for them!

Stay tuned for what’s been cooking in class this year ✊🏾🖤💛❤️

26/02/2025

26/02/2025

19/02/2025

Akala Newman is a rising dark angel of pop music, known for her edgy, unapologetic songwriting and angelic vocal tone that merges haunting beauty with raw power. A proud Wiradjuri/Gadigal woman, Akala’s music channels a unique blend of fantasy, magic, and fierce personal storytelling. Described by The Urban List as a “bonafide triple threat we really can’t get enough of,” her presence on the stage feels ethereal yet rebellious, captivating audiences with a bold, otherworldly energy. Akala’s musical career is decorated with milestones.
She penned and performed “Calling Country,” the opening anthem for Sydney’s New Year’s Eve Fireworks at the Opera House. She won the inaugural IndigiTube Song Contest, graced the stage at the
National Indigenous Music Awards in Darwin, and opened the Women’s World Cup draw in Aotearoa with Gawura Dance Company. Her unique fusion of pop melodies and First Nations storytelling has carved out space for her as a fresh and daring voice in the Australian music scene. Behind the scenes, Akala continues
to break barriers. Her artistic vision expands through her work as a First Nations Consultant at Arts and Cultural Exchange (ACE), First Nations Lecturer and Academic Officer at the National Art School and Artist Educator at The Museum of Contemporary Arts as well as her business development of Gili Gatherings,
which celebrates First Peoples’ voices. With residencies at Koori Radio and The Red Rattler in 2023, Akala is
constantly evolving, driven by a commitment to community and creative expression.

The students at Alex Park are super lucky to have our deadly sister guiding them this year.

19/02/2025

Forever community-focused and proudly outspoken, N***y is one of the most vital voices in the
Australian music landscape. He is also one of our deadly Artists in Residence who will be going into one of our schools working with students this year, passing on his knowledge of culture and knowledge of working in the Arts.
The proud Yuin rapper, producer, and radio host has been championing Blak excellence for well
over a decade. Working with acclaimed producers i.am.solo and Tasker, N***y’s music combines
intricate flow, sledgehammer social commentary, and loads of South Coast slang.
N***y’s work as radio host for ‘Blak Out’, broadcast nationally on triple j and as founder of social
enterprise ‘We Are Warriors’, an all encompassing initiative highlighting prolific Indigenous
excellence across music, fashion, sports has led him to be recognised both internationally and
locally, with accolades ranging from Cannes Entertainment Lions Awards to Australia Council’s
Dreaming Awards.

18/02/2025

Solid Ground has kicked off for 2025!!!!

Our deadly Artist in Residence, Peta-Joy Williams kicks off next Monday at Chifley College Dunheved sharing her strengths of weaving, yarning, visual arts.

Peta-Joy Williams was born in Sydney but stems from the Wiradjuri people in NSW's Inner West she loves going back to her mother's home town in Orange when she can break away from the city but finds home putting her feet in the water at Maroubra Beach as often as possible. Peta-Joy started her career in the Visual Arts Studying at the Eora Center of TAFE NSW. After completion on her diploma in fine arts she went on to work at Walk About Gallery in Leichhardt where as part of her training spoke about up and coming art exhibitions as a regular on the Blackchat show Koori Radio. Little did she know that this was the beginning of a close love affair with Gadigal Information Service and lead to her to a variety of roles such as Volunteering at Yabun, helping launch Gadigal Music and Stage Manager for Making Waves Klub Koori events, Producing Blackchat, Stalls Coordinator for Yabun, Admin, Outside Broadcast Technician, to name a few. She is also studied Wiradjuri Language that lead her to be involved in a cultural exchange to America where she was invited to acknowledge country in Wiradjuri Language before students gave presentations about Aboriginal Culture.

We're very proud to have her representing us at Dunheved!

03/02/2025

Here’s some snippets from our budding artists!!! I thought I’d only share the pictures. There’s some deep poetry amongst the art books. It’s pretty awesome to read ### hopefully it can be shared with you all one day 🖤💛❤️
~Elaine Crombie~

13/01/2025

N***y stopped by to our End of Year celebrations. Our brother is coming on board for the Solid Ground program for 2025 and we're so excited for the students to experience his expertise and leadership and we can't wait to see what to come!!!

13/01/2025

The Alexandria Park Community School were front row, on the ground, listening and taking it all in.

13/01/2025

Special shout out to Brother Bubbly Weatherall, who came in at the last minute to give us a meaningful welcome that our young ones appreciated so much.
They were so engaged and that's what it's about at the end of the day.