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Wyniss

27 Jun 2019

On Friday afternoon the school was fortunate to be a part of the Musica Viva performance “Wyniss”.

The children have been participating in a number of lessons this term with Mr Jackson in preparation for Wyniss’ visit.

Dujon, Aunty Nora, Smilie and George are from the Torres Strait Islands and they delighted the students with songs, games, dances and instruments from their indigenous culture.

The students joined in Wami string figures, Wana spinning tops and used the firefly zamiaks (props) made in music classes to perform a dance called Zeg.

We were farewelled at the end of the performance with a song called Ama Babanwal, which is a song about sad goodbyes and respecting your elders. The students joined in so beautifully and their behaviour was exemplary. It was fantastic to have a performance to culminate a term’s work in music.

The musicians of Wyniss were touched and quite emotional that our students knew their music so well, as it is important to them that their music and culture reaches children all around Australia.

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