Gomeroi Culture Academy

Supporting and inspiring our next generation of leaders.

Gomeroi Culture Academy (GCA) offers an intensive cultural leadership program that supports young Gomeroi people in their personal development by supporting them to connect with and learn traditional cultural practice in a way that complements and enhances what they learn through the school curriculum.

Being connected to our culture forms our sense of identity and shapes how we connect to the world around us; to our family, peers, community and nature. Without culture we all struggle to know where we belong, making it difficult to be true to ourselves and unlock our potential to thrive.

Trust in the ancestral knowledge of Aboriginal culture is based in finding truth in stories that do not reflect or belong to one specific point in time, but are a timeless amalgamation, interpretation and oral recounting of the stories of great value that are handed down over thousands of years from the oldest continuous culture on earth.

The GCA way of teaching these stories and traditional practices gives young people the chance to build their sense of identity through connection and pride in culture. This leads to developing personal capacities that translate into skills for life – outcomes that enable Gomeroi people to thrive in the wider world.

Traditional skills like weaving, dance, creating and playing a Yidaki (Digeridoo), or story-telling support young people to learn essential life skills such as patience, persistence, respect and self-confidence – life skills that cannot be unlearnt because the connection is real and flows into all aspects of their inner growth and outer capacity to thrive, in school, in work, in life.

The GCA is designed and delivered by the Gomeroi Dance Company and Yinarr Maramali, who have both been sharing supporting young people for well over a decade.

Our Quarterly Newsletter

The GCA produces a quarterly newsletter Giirr Maaru. Click or tap the images below to download PDFs of each newsletter. And Subscribe below.

Partners

The GCA is designed and delivered in partnership with the Gomeroi Dance Company and Yinarr Maramali, and is funded by the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA).

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