Be part of assisting communities to record precious Indigenous cultural knowledge.
Help all Australians learn from knowledge shared by cultural custodians through mobile app technology.
Who We Are
SharingStories Foundation is a not for profit organisation that works with Indigenous communities to maintain and share language, stories and culture for present and future generations.
We have long standing relationships with over 25 communities with whom we work to deliver programs underpinned by skills transfer that supports ongoing community capacity to record and maintain culture.
SharingStories Foundation blends innovation through technology with a deep understanding of ancient cultures based on oral traditions to promote a deeper understanding of Australian and Torres Straight Islander perspectives across Australia.
Songlines Online
Responding to requests from Senior Cultural Custodians with whom we work, SharingStories Foundation is seeking to raise funds to create an interactive GPS fed mobile application designed to share selected Indigenous cultural knowledge to both the local
and wider community. Recordings of songlines, stories and cultural knowledge will be made available through the GPS fed mobile app, providing a platform for present and future generations of indigenous young people to access important cultural
teachings on country. This platform also offers a unique audio visual experience available to tourists as they travel. Receiving GPS fed notifications that will inform them there is information available to their particular location, tourists will be able
to listen and watch cultural custodians ‘Welcome to Country’ and learn more about the songs and stories of creation that directly relate to the land they are travelling through. The mobile app will be a completely immersive experience that facilitates deeper
connections to country and place for both local community and travellers.
Indigenous Songlines and stories, the epic poems that span the entire Australian continent, have been referred to as “the great classical music of this country”. Songlines hold vast libraries of cultural, ecological and cartographic information that
teach of law, language, clan boundaries, relationships and ceremony; they lay out the responsibilities and obligations of people to one another and to the land. Maintaining these Songlines ensures ongoing balance, and maintains the health and well being of
both people and country.
Now as the elders pass away, many take with them songs, stories and language which hold the knowledge of this unique, often extremely fragile Australian cultural heritage. We are working closely with communities to hold precious
knowledge for future generations of Indigenous young people and to assist custodians in efforts to ensure a greater respect for that cultural knowledge is stimulated within the broader community.
Supporting the First Songlines Project
With your help, SharingStories along with young people from Mäpuru School and traditional custodians of the Liya-dhalinymirr Djambarrpuynu Clan will complete documentation and editing of the journey of the Mukarr (Giant Green Sea Turtle) Hunters which
traverses country across north east Arnhem Land. Working with the Mukarr Hunters as a pilot songline, we will create an exciting interactive GPS fed mobile app that will hold and share this cultural knowledge and return a revenue stream back to the community and
custodians.
To ensure access to unique Indigenous Cultural knowledge continues for many generations:
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SharingStories Foundation has registered DGR status and all donations are tax refundable.
Please help us hold and share Indigenous Songlines for all our children.
