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Welcome to The Mulka Project |
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Mission The Mulka Project is introducing meaningful employment and empowerment to the Yirrkala community through use of digital media. We are in the process of repatriatiating valuable documentation of the region's cultural heritage that is kept in outside collections and training local Yolngu Aboriginal People to tell their own stories in modern media. We are currently funded by government and philanthropy and need more help, but are developing products and services to make ourselves more sustainable into the future. Take a look around this website to get to know who we are and what specific projects, partnerships and opportunities we have going on.
The Mulka Project launched in front of a large crowd on the first day of the 2007 Garma Festival. Art centre coordinator Will Stubbs was master of ceremonies, introducing the background of the project and giving way to speeches by town clerk and Yirrkala landowner Djuwalpi Marika, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory Clare Martin, Senator George Brandis, Federal Minister for the Arts and Sport, and keynote speaker Dr. Gawirrin Gumana AO, senior Yolngu statesman and artist. Dr. Gumana spoke of the meaning of 'mulka' as a ceremonial holding place as well as the alternate meaning 'dry hands' before unveiling a plaque dedicating the building to the artists of the Saltwater Collection, whose work provided the seed funding for the new building. The audience then proceeded into the new building, ceremonially sung in by Witiyana Marika with Djalu' Gurruwiwi on yidaki. Once inside, a standing room only audience was treated to some new films produced by the community's youth. See one of them on our Video page!
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