The Badimia arts, sites and language project is a great success!

by: zibmediaIn Arts and Entertainment, Community Partnerships, Community Projects, Culture and Country, Events, Giving Back, Heritage, Terra Rosa
The TR Foundation’s first project was proudly delivered in Mount Magnet last week during NAIDOC week. Following past successful events in Mount Magnet, not-for-profit organisation, the TR Foundation, partnered with Badimia Land Aboriginal Corporation (BLAC) to deliver a project celebrating Badimia language and culture.  The resulting project: ‘Arts, sites and language of Kirkalocka’ received a [...]

TR trains an Indigenous heritage team

by: zibmediaIn Anthropology, Archaeology, Community Projects, Heritage, Terra Rosa, TrainingTagged
In February Terra Rosa’s heritage trainers were employed by Nyiyaparli enterprise, Wilypa, to train four young Aboriginal men in Certificate III in Aboriginal Sites Work. The idea of the program was to build Wilypa’s capacity so that Aboriginal people manage and lead their own cultural heritage surveys. Graduates could also find employment as rangers, heritage [...]

The TR Foundation seeks interns and volunteers for 10-week program

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Volunteer / intern placements in not-for-profit Foundation based in Fremantle The organisation The TR Foundation was established in 2016 as an avenue for assisting Traditional Owner groups to fulfil their cultural and community development aims. The Foundation currently supports Traditional Owner groups to return to country, record important cultural sites and express cultural information through […]

Terra Rosa begins Healthy Country Initiative in partnership with QLD Traditional Owners

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How do you feel about doing some heritage work in Queensland, perhaps on the Great Barrier Reef? How could any heritage consultant say no to that? With bags packed with work boots, cameras, Nodal Ninjas, bathers and sunscreen, the Terra Rosa team of Scott and Anne headed for Queensland to spend a week examining the […]

Art returns to the Badimia Granites

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Bundiyarra linguists James, Rosie and Nadine with Ollie George There’s something a bit surreal about the Granites. Where some of the boulders that scatter the site look like they could roll away like marbles at any minute, others sit firmly like Colossi, keeping watch over the sandy landscape. But it’s when the sky goes dusky, […]

Nyimili Interactive Journey Launch

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Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Nyimili Interactive Journey website. Terra Rosa and the members of the Yinhawangka community have been working co-operatively on the Nyimili Project since 2014. A significant milestone in the project, the website explores the significance and history of the Nyimili Range through information captured on the […]

Gidarjil Indigenous rangers train with Terra Rosa to measure Gladstone’s heritage health!

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Gidarjil Land and Sea Rangers with TR's Scott and Jade Taking a break from turtle and mangrove monitoring, 13 trainee Indigenous Land and Sea Rangers crammed into the Gidarjil bus and headed out with Terra Rosa to The Narrows Quarry, a spectacular Aboriginal quarry site around 45 minutes north of Gladstone. The quarry boasts countless [...]

Motion footage reveals animals of Nyimili Range including a dingo pup!

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Yinhawangka representatives and the Terra Rosa environmental team recently completed an initial environmental survey of the Nyimili Range. Using equipment like motions sensor cameras and Bat call detectors at several sites around the ranges, including caves, breakaways, and water pools, it was hoped to record the presence of some conservation significant species such as the […]

Rare wooden artefacts found in the Nyimili Range!

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Roy Tommy demonstrating the use of one of the fire sticks to Stuart Ingie Jnr at a rockshelter. The Nyimili Range community project continues! Frida, Kirsty and Denis from Terra Rosa have spent the last week back in Tom Price with the Yinhawangka Traditional Owners, continuing the investigation and recording of the heritage values of [...]

UPDATE! Event Program for the TRCRM Open Community Day

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‘FOLLOW US DOWN THE RED SAND ROAD’ EVENT PROGRAM *Please note that there has been a slight change to the program from 10:30 – 11:30am. Our event for the WA Heritage Festival! Come and join the folk at Terra Rosa CRM for a community open day of celebration including live entertainment, Aboriginal storytelling, bush tucker surprise, heritage […]