Gippsland Language and Song Project (GLASP)
Machta Dhuna - Gunaikurnai Country project
About: 2019 whole-school arts project at Toorloo Arm Primary School, Victoria, in response to the First Languages Australia Marrin Gamu song program. This brought the community together to sing in the region’s First Language for the first time in the school’s 100 year history
Collaborators: Grattan Mullet, Lynette Solomon-Dent, Kerry Hughes, Barbara Plant, Hugh Pepper, Naomi Cook, Elizabeth Haldane, Sasha Bryant, Darcy Plant, Paul Efthimou, Clare Hall
We Are One - Virtual choir project
About: 2021 virtual choir project across Gunaikurnai Country, in regional Victorian schools. During Covid-19 pandemic remote learning hundreds of students across Gippsland learnt the Gunaikurnai translation of 'We Are One' song and participated in a video recording project.
Participating schools: Bruthen Primary School, Orbost Primary School, Orbost North Primary School, Orbost Secondary College, Toorloo Arm Primary School, Wurruk Primary School
Collaborators: Grattan Mullet, Lynette Solomon-Dent, Hugh Pepper, Gayle Coleman, Davide Colombo, Wendy Conway, Jo Dacy, Kathy Fennell, Nicole Hood, Kerry Hughes, Kim Laughlan, Kade Neale, Peter Nicholson, Barbara Plant, Peter Seal, Sue Taylor, Michelle Young, Clare Hall, and funded by Uniting
