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Tjanpi Desert Weaversorganised, ten cultural sites visited andseventeen inma (cultural song and dance)performed. Tjanpi’s workshops are verymuch in demand as they foster artisticand technical skills. This is in additionto allowing Tjanpi artists to enjoy otheractivities such as collecting grass withTjanpi staff, visiting significant sites,sharing important cultural informationand skills, hunting and eating bush foods,making bush medicines, and connectingwith family.Tjanpi completed its last bush workshopand artist residency in Amata withcontemporary installation artist AlisonClouston. These remote bush workshopswere held over a two-year period with thesupport of the Balnaves Foundation andprovided opportunities to create worksfor Kuru Alala - Eyes Open, an exhibitionwhich opened in October 2009 at theGold Coast City Art Gallery and will travelto regional venues during 2010-2012.The Kuru Alala exhibition was conceivedin collaboration with contemporaryinstallation artists Maria FernandaCardoso and Alison Clouston whovisited the Ngaanyatjarra and APY Landsrespectively, to share ideas, experiencesand skills with Tjanpi artists.Cultural exchange workshops wereoffered at Alice Springs Desert Park,Araluen Art Centre during NAIDOC week,and at the Alice Springs Library, AliceSprings High School, Alice SpringsCorrectional Centre, Gold Coast CityArt Gallery, the hugely popular AliceSprings Beanie Festival and in Singaporefor local art students. In September2009 Tjanpi artists performed inma atDancesite in Alice Springs, a very popularpresentation of traditional Indigenousdance from Central Australia.Tjanpi acquired a publishing contractwith Macmillan to produce the Tjanpibook in addition to Tjanpi being includedin Macmillan’s Contemporary Mini ArtSeries. Funding for the productioncosts was acquired from the MutitjuluFoundation, Gordon Darling Foundationand Yeperenye Nominees Pty. Ltd. ManyTjanpi artists have contributed theirstories and memories and the bookwill do much to raise the profile of theweavers, reflect on Tjanpi’s uniquehistory and place in contemporary artand provide a safe keeping place ofcultural information for Anangu.Tjanpi redeveloped its website in 2010 toinclude an on-line exhibition of artworksfor sale and now has a greater scopeto increase the profile of the enterprise.Tjanpi’s Remote base in Warakurna WAwas operational throughout the yearand allowed for greater communityengagement in Tjanpi’s annual programof activities and services. The Tjanpioffice and gallery in NPYWC’s WilkinsonSt. premises in Alice Springs underwentan expansion and modest but beautifultransformation this year, resulting inmore room for Tjanpi staff as well as forthe works on sale.Michelle YoungTjanpi ManagerIlluwanti Ken with tjanpi figure at Amata workshop.Katanari Butler making a tjanpi animal at Amata workshop.14 NPY Women’s Council (Aboriginal Corporation) Annual Report 2009–2010
Tjungu TeamScreen shot of sexual health DVD showing on HITnet.The Tjungu (together) Team coversdisability support and disabilityadvocacy, aged care support (SA only)and aged advocacy, respite for carers ofthe aged and people with disabilities, theNinti educational program, Emotionaland Social Well-being and Ngangkari(traditional healers.)Tri-state Disability Support. Tri-StateDisability worked with 200 clients acrossthe tri-state region. There are three staffwho work in this area: Clyde Jochheim,and Yuminiya Ken in SA and the NT, andHilary Peake in WA. Representativesof the funding body visited NPYWC inJune to see if NPYWC is providing agood quality of service. No report hadbeen forthcoming at December 2010.It continues to be difficult to find malecarers to work on the Lands with men.There is one young man who comes fromMelbourne during school holidays, whichis working out well for NPYWC.Disability Advocacy worked witharound 100 people with disabilitiesand has one staff member. The TjunguTeam manager continues to work onthe recommendations from the Section12K Audit of the Disability ServicesStandards that was done by FaHCSIA,the funding body, last year. Theserecommendations intended to ensurethat NPYWC is working correctly withAnangu and have suggested ways towork better. The Disability AdvocacyProject Officer Erin Raskas attendeda conference in Canberra in June 2010which was organised by FaHCSIA andincluded speakers from Canada and U.S.HACC Aged Care Support (APY LandsSA only) worked with up to 130 agedpeople in the SA sector of the NPYregion. There was one staff member,Natalie Scott, employed in this area.HACC Aged Care Support has had a lotof requests for swags and blankets forold people during winter.Aged Advocacy The Aged CareAdvocacy Project Officer Barb Lewisreturned to NPYWC after some timeaway, and worked with 70 aged peoplefrom the region. She has been to WAto see some of the old people and hasalso been busy preparing reports andupdating client files. Aged Advocacy hasalso been busy working with PalliativeCare for clients, helping them returnhome when it is time for them to finish,and attending a conference in Adelaideon elder abuse.Ninti (transitional education for childrenwith a disability) In the past last 12months Ninti staff member DianneMcRae has worked with 33 childrenwith disabilities or whose carers havedisabilities and who have had to comeinto Alice Springs for medical reasons,or for transition to special or mainstreameducation. Some of the children havecome to Ninti many times as theirfamilies are frequently in Alice Springs.When children come into town they oftendo not attend school, so they can attendNinti to keep up their education and gethelp to enroll in an appropriate school.The Ninti room has also been used torun respite for kids with disabilities whoare in town during the school holidays.NPY Women’s Council (Aboriginal Corporation) Annual Report 2009–2010 15
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