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Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the sacred lands on which we work. We pay our respects to the people of the Kulin Nations and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past present and future.

We recognise all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first storytellers; and that knowledge transfer through storytelling is imbedded in the very DNA of this Country.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this website may contain images, voices or names of deceased persons in photographs, film, audio recordings or printed material.

Gay’wu Group of Women in Song Spirals

“We have a life force… inside. ….the word dreaming. We are not asleep. We are here and have all this knowledge, this life force, collective thought, a soul that is created by water.”

Allen & Unwin

Gay’wu Group of Women is the ‘dilly bag women’s group’, a deep collaboration between five Yolngu women and three non-Aboriginal women over a decade. They are all co-authors of Weaving Lives Together at Bawaka, North East Arnhem Land and a book for young adults, Welcome to My Country.

Purchase your copy of Song Spirals

See the Gay’wu Group of Women and other First Nations Writers at Blak & Bright 2022

17– 20 March 22
blakandbright.com.au
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