{"id":5514,"date":"2011-05-18T22:20:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2011-07-04T14:26:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T03:26:48","slug":"a-warlpiri-double-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-warlpiri-double-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warlpiri double launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual meeting of Warlpiri-patu-kurlangu Jaru Inc. and its professional development workshop known as Warlpiri Triangle this year is being hosted by Yuendumu CEC, 16-19 May 2011.<\/p>\n

This evening in the Yuendumu school library two resources were launched to a large gathering including senior Warlpiri women.<\/p>\n

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1. <\/strong>JARU-KURLU: Warlpiri stories & songs from Wirliyajarrayi, Yurntumu, Lajamanu & Nyirrpi. <\/em> Trafford Publishing<\/a>, who have an address in Bloomington, Indiana; also available through Amazon<\/a> and Borders<\/a>. Update 1 July 2011: 20 May 2011<\/del>: Amazon is unable to<\/del> filling<\/ins> an<\/del> orders now<\/ins>at this stage; try again in a few weeks<\/del>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book was presented by Fiona Gibson Napaljarri, who wrote its (bilingual) Foreword.<\/p>\n

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The large format booklet comprises 17 stories told by senior Warlpiri women from the four Warlpiri communities named in the title.\u00a0 The stories are written out in the main 33 pages, and spoken and sung on the accompanying audio CD (Update 20<\/del> 25 May 2011: CD not<\/del> will be included with published version) <\/span>with 17 tracks; the English translations are on the last 8 pages.\u00a0 The book includes wordlists and comprehension questions for each of the 21 stories. The topics are Warlpiri Dreamings and places, and traditional plant use.
\nThe stories were recorded in 2000 by Angela Harrison (then NTDE Language Resource Officer), and a song was recorded by Georgia Curran (then an ANU PhD student) at the 2006 Warlpiri-patu-kurlangu Jaru workshop. The transcription and translation formed part of work by Warlpiri students at the Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics (CALL) at Batchelor Institute (BIITE). It is notable that all involved are women: all the twelve story tellers and singers, all 28 named Warlpiri teachers and students, and all five linguists involved.\u00a0 (There are some men’s names among the credits for the illustrative photographs spread through the Warlpiri section.)<\/p>\n

Funding: NT Department of Education Employment and Training, Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD), Channel 7 Children’s Fund, and the Warlpiri Education and Training Trust (WETT)<\/a>.\u00a0 Funding for publication came from Trafford First Voices<\/a> Publishing Program.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> Yawulyu Wirliyajarrayi-wardingkiki: ngatijirri, ngapa \/ Willowra Songlines: budgerigar and rain<\/em>.\u00a0 DVD \u00a9 Willowra Community
\nThe performers, Willowra women, were recorded in April and June 2009.<\/p>\n

\"\" The DVD was presented to us by Maisie Kitson Napaljarri with remarks by Dora Kitson Napaljarri and Mary Laughren.<\/p>\n

Funding and other support was cobbled together by Myfany Turpin<\/a> and Mary Laughren<\/a> from a range of sources including the Australian Research Council (ARC), Janganpa Aboriginal Corporation and the Central Land Council (CLC) (through its Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Program (IEKP)), the NT Natural Resource Management Board, The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Project (Arcadia Trust), Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, and The University of Queensland.\u00a0 Support also came from CSIRO Alice Springs, in the form of Fiona Walsh’s wildlife video used to good effect by the video editor Wiriya Sati.<\/p>\n

Myf Turpin and Mary Laughren have described the production, and insights into Warlpiri songs, in some recent presentations:<\/p>\n