The bicentenary of Albany, Western Australia, has kicked off brilliantly. Over the weekend, First Lights Kinjarling told three Menang Noongar stories using a drone show in the skies above Anzac Peace Park. The first of these was a story about a hill in the Stirling Ranges, north of Albany, Kaawar Maat.
A few weeks earlier, I took Menang elders, Averil Dean and Treasy Woods to the Stirlings, where Averil Dean told me the story of Kaawar Maat. It was wonderful to see the hill and hear the story from the mouth of a person who had received the ancient story from her parents and grandparents.
Averil’s story took on a new light as I watched the drone show and saw 21st-century technology tracing pictures in the sky that re-told that ancient story to a modern audience.
I hope you’ll enjoy this video that ties together Averil’s story with the Drone show of the same story.
By the way, while we were in the Stirlings I heard some more fascinating stories which will be shared in another video in a few weeks’ time.
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