Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community LaGrange Inc

Women’s Centre Story

The Bidyadanga Women’s Centre is a space for all women of Bidyadanga.

The centre offers a space for women to have respite, engage in activities, access visiting services, form friendships and a place where women can support other women in the community.

The Women’s Centre has been focusing on building social enterprise opportunities for the women through creating crafts and handmade items. These products give women social enterprise opportunities to continue to support their families and build new skills in a supportive and creative environment.

Thank you for supporting the Bidyadanga Women’s Centre through your recent purchase through the Arts Centre.

Women’s Centre Story

The Bidyadanga Women’s Centre is a space for all women of Bidyadanga.

The centre offers a space for women to have respite, engage in activities, access visiting services, form friendships and a place where women can support other women in the community.

The Women’s Centre has been focusing on building social enterprise opportunities for the women through creating crafts and handmade items. These products give women social enterprise opportunities to continue to support their families and build new skills in a supportive and creative environment.

Thank you for supporting the Bidyadanga Women’s Centre through your recent purchase through the Arts Centre.

Women’s Centre Story

The Bidyadanga Women’s Centre is a space for all women of Bidyadanga.

The centre offers a space for women to have respite, engage in activities, access visiting services, form friendships and a place where women can support other women in the community.

The Women’s Centre has been focusing on building social enterprise opportunities for the women through creating crafts and handmade items. These products give women social enterprise opportunities to continue to support their families and build new skills in a supportive and creative environment.

Thank you for supporting the Bidyadanga Women’s Centre through your recent purchase through the Arts Centre.

Claypans and Marshland

All about white claypan in dry season, lalga. I’m doing the dry claypan. We go out country from Bidgy (Bidyadanga abbr.) and go hunting for kangaroo and turkey, like that you know? Bush animals you know? Long time [ago] people used to go hunting by walking, but now we go with car. When we go dry time the jurnga (ground} all hard, [that’s when it’s] more easy to see the animal footprints. Not when it’s scrubby, not when it’s a marsh, that’s when the ground is too softened then, too boggy.

This is the one I’m painting now, I’m doing the colour of the dry season, I’m doing all the dots like the sand, claypan, marsh and the paru (spinifex), all the different Nyangumarta country. I’m doing all the station, I’m doing the white plain, the marsh and claypan area. That’s all in the pirla (desert, country). I’m doing different sort of area; Wallal, Mandoora, Anna Plains, Sandfire Marsh, Salt Creek. Bush name for Salt Creek is Wallyarra. We go hunting different places every day. That’s the hunting places.

Ngangumarta Warran (Country)

“Nyangumarta Country home to the Nyangumarta people from the Desert to the sea side. Old people lived and walked on this land, we as Nyangumarta still look after the land today, we still go out on Country hunt and keep our way of life living of the traditional food from the land.

Nyangumarta people travelled and lived in the desert and the seaside. This painting is a story from the Nyangumarta dreaming where once a woman who walked with her child along this country collecting sea food “Mayi”. They were both on the reef and suddenly the tide came and drowned them, so now today there’s two rocks which remain out by the sea.

Because we carry the culture and most people tell stories with their painting, and that’s how it was from the beginning. Passing knowledge down. They might not see it now, but in the future, younger people might want to follow in their Elders’ footsteps. And carry on the skills and lifestyles. It can be anything—painting, hunting, becoming leaders.”

– Venetta Yanawana

Women’s Centre Story

The Bidyadanga Women’s Centre is a space for all women of Bidyadanga.

The centre offers a space for women to have respite, engage in activities, access visiting services, form friendships and a place where women can support other women in the community.

The Women’s Centre has been focusing on building social enterprise opportunities for the women through creating crafts and handmade items. These products give women social enterprise opportunities to continue to support their families and build new skills in a supportive and creative environment.

Thank you for supporting the Bidyadanga Women’s Centre through your recent purchase through the Arts Centre.

My Grandfathers Country

‘My Grandfather lived in the Great Sandy Desert, with his wives, and his children, gathering food, hunting, gathering wood to make fire, at night they sang and danced camp side as well as going to get water at the water hole.’

– Agnes Frank

Great Sandy Desert

‘This is a story of the sand dunes in the Great Sandy Desert. When it rains the grasses grows, the sun rose up, and it’s blue sky again and plenty waterholes.’

– Agnes Frank

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Jarrambayiny (Goanna)