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We invite you to contribute to our multi award winning Regional Program that takes high calibre musicians to remote Aboriginal communities in the North West of Australia to conduct music workshops for children and young people.
Your involvement in this program – regardless of the amount of your gift - is an important investment in the social, cultural, educational and community lives of young people living in remote communities of the Kimberley region.
Even a modest contribution can change lives!
“Music is all around us and it has the power to be very inclusive because humans everywhere make music.”
Your donation will help to bring amazing cultural experiences as well as creative and skills development opportunities to fill the gap in music education support available to the children, young people of the communities of Djarindjin / Lombadina, One Arm
Point and Beagle Bay on the Dampier Peninsula, north of Broome in the West Kimberley.
As the video shows, in October 2013, Tura New Music will collaborate with the Australian Art Orchestra to tour the internationally acclaimed Crossing Roper Bar project from Darwin to Perth via Kununurra, the Dampier Peninsula, Broome, Karratha, Roebourne and
Exmouth. Members of the Australian Art Orchestra including Paul Grabowsky, Stephen Magnussen and Rajiv Jayaweera will be joined by the Wagilak Group, young traditional songmen from Ngukurr in East Arnhem Land together with the Kimberley’s own legendary singer/songwriter
Steve Pigram.
A unique cross-cultural project joining the Kimberley, North East Arnhem Land and non-Indigenous cultures, the tour provides an extraordinary opportunity to facilitate workshops with some of the country’s best musicians. The musicians will engage in schools
demonstrations, workshops for primary and high school students and free community concerts. This is a project that represents huge value for your crowdfunding dollar.
Tura has longstanding relationships in these communities and has been able to return to honour those relationships and build on the positive outcomes of the preceding years’ workshops. But the distances involved are huge and the costs associated in the remoteness,
make conducting a music education program in remote communities in the North-West a very expensive business. Tura New Music’s government funding only covers 25% of the cost of the project. Which is why we need YOUR help.
The music workshops support participants towards strong health and wellbeing outcomes. (Tura workshop in Warmun)
Contributing to the Regional Touring Program workshop project provides you with an opportunity to do something positive and real for children and young people who are geographically, socially and economically disadvantaged through music. But the outcomes
of these music workshops go way beyond music education. They provide:
* Participation and access to art music and cultural experiences otherwise not accessible to the children, the artists and remote community;
* Exposure and access to contemporary art practices which could otherwise not be experienced
* Promotes values of reconciliation
* Promotes awareness of these communities in the hearts and minds of Western Australians.
* Leaves behind a positive, lasting legacy
* Valuable skills exchange and development of cognitive abilities in young people.
The Workshops and Concerts
Wed 16 October 2013 - Djarindjin/Lombadina Schools Workshop and Community Concert
Thu 17 October 2013 - One Arm Point Schools Workshop and Community Concert
Fri 18 October 2013 - Beagle Bay Schools Workshop and Community Concert
The time spent in the Remote Communities is one of cultural sharing. On the one hand, the formal sharing of the Crossing Roper Bar program and its process including, importantly, the sharing of Wagilak Yolgnu culture with the Bardi, Nyul Nyul and Jabber Jabber
people of the Dampier Peninsula. Equally the sharing back to the touring artists of the local culture and knowledge creates an invaluable two way cultural flow. This process inspires local communities around the vitality of both traditional culture as well
as how that can collaborate with contemporary non Indigenous culture. To experience that in such an authentic way against the gigantic tide of commercialised superficiality that is bombarded through the media - yes even in remote communities - creates a real
path forward for current and future generations.
How will Tura New Music’s Regional Touring Program have a social impact?
Tura’s Regional Touring Program workshops fill a cultural education gap for remote communities and regional centres of the North West of Western Australia by offering a range of music experiences and a calibre of engagement the children, young people and
members of these communities would otherwise never access. And this opportunity runs both ways. Our musicians and facilitators learn from the experience. The intercultural dialogue allows artists and organisers to return to their bases filled with new influences,
ideas and contacts which inform their future work and enable fertile future collaborations.
Over the years, by returning to the same remote and Indigenous communities and building on previous workshops, the Regional Program’s impact has led to skills transfer and sound relationships with community leaders who are keen to see Tura return and the Program
continue for the benefit of their children and young people and their futures.
How can I help?
Tura’s determination to take the very best of music making to remote Northern Australia and engage in long term relationships is genuine cultural exchange and IS ONLY POSSIBLE WITH YOUR HELP. Government funding alone is not enough to cover the high cost
of working in remote communities. Without your help now, these amazing workshops planned simply cannot not happen…
YOU can make a real difference in the life of a child in a remote community today by:
• SupportingTura’s Regional Touring Workshop Program through Start Some Good by clicking the green Donate Now! button. You’ll need a Start Some Good account, which only takes a few seconds, and a PayPal account.
• Spreading the word! Post to Facebook, Twitter, in your blog, and send friends an email.
• Having problems using PayPal? Just e-mail us at [email protected]
• Join us! If you think you might like to come on a regional tour with Tura New Music, please e-mail us for information on our Tura Travellers’ program.
Thanks in advance for your support; it’s making a difference!
Why StartSomeGood?
There is a good reason why we have chosen Startsomegood. StartSomeGood is a unique hybrid crowdfunding model that connects social entrepreneurs with funding for transformative ideas that can change the world. It is exclusively for social change initiatives
that need to raise seed capital to get new projects off the ground. StartSomeGood requires a tipping point to trigger funding for a project, so any fund-raising before this is done in an all-or-nothing way. To honour your generosity, we have a list of rewards
to entice you to help us reach our tipping point before the deadline.
Do we know what we're talking about?
Winner of the 2006 and 2009 and shortlisted in the 2011 APRA|AMC Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music and Sound Art in a Regional Area, Tura New Music is praised nationally for its commitment to presenting world class Australian cultural
projects in regional Western Australia.
Tura has been producing regional cultural projects since incorporating in 1987. Since 2003 it has been producing projects in Northern Australia including remote communities in the Kimberley. Not only is Tura experienced in meeting the challenges that remote
projects entail, we have developed very strong relationships and networks within all the communities we have visited and we will continue to strengthen those connections, which are vital to the success of these projects.
The Regional Touring Program workshop program is designed to demand low production support with the Artists providing all the technology required of the project. Nevertheless the distances involved and costs associated with the remoteness inevitably means that
the program is expensive to produce. However, Tura’s experience in regional and remote projects brings efficiencies that ensure that government and sponsors’ funds are used to maximum benefit.
Tura New Music has a proven track record of successfully managing regional projects. Management and staff are highly experienced in devising and delivering projects to isolated regional areas. Exceptional professionalism and duty of care is exercised at all
stages of planning and delivery, with particular attention given to protocol standards of Indigenous communities. Tura personnel will implement monitoring strategies and control measures to ensure the successful outcome of the Residency for all parties involved.
We would like to thank Mel Anastas for producing and editing our video.
