Sound FX 2023

Tura’s program Sound FX explores music, story, cultural knowledge, and language through long term collaborations with education and community partners in the Fitzroy Valley.

Facilitated by award-winning community music composer, researcher and educator Dr Gillian Howell, this program aims to strengthen and diversify the ways that music-making can support community goals around language knowledge, wellbeing, and healing.

In May and August this year, Gillian Howell and project coordinator Annika Moses travelled to the Fitzroy Valley to work with students and teachers at Fitzroy Valley District High School (FVDHS), Bayulu Remote Community School and language educators at Baya Gawiy Buga yani Jandu yani u (Baya Gawiy), the early childhood program of the Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre.

Sound FX 2023 was supported by the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts Program, The Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries’ Creative Communities Recovery Program, the Minderoo Foundation, Healthway promoting Act-Belong-Commit message, The Feilman Foundation and The University of Melbourne.