"Strong Women" songwriting project
Klubo Mulbah, Yuma Pewee, Debra Poe, Shellie Morris (front), Rebecca Toby and Kebeh Jerue.

Brown's Mart Community Arts (now Darwin Community Arts) and the Melaleuca Refugee Centre engaged Shellie Morris to facilitate two women-focussed song writing workshops, with workshop participants writing, singing and recording songs onto CD [a copy of which each of them took home].

They also performed these songs at the International Women’s Day celebrations at Brown's Mart Theatre on March 10.

The workshops were made possible with the assistance of the Office of Multicultural Affairs funding, and Darwin City Council sponsorship.
Outcomes include:
* two new songs recorded onto CD;
* enhanced cultural relationships between the African women and Indigenous singer Shellie Morris;
* increased confidence and self-esteem for the African Women who performed in front of several hundred audience members to wrapt applause;
* and increased self-esteem through the songs [Strong Women] being played on ABC radio.

Download & listen to Strong Women now:
Sample: Ogg Vorbis [764KB] | MP3 [720KB]
Complete: Ogg Vorbis [3.2MB] | MP3 [3.8MB]

Darwin Community Arts recognises the dynamic nature of culture, the value of multicultural arts in the NT and Australia and the value of supporting multiculturalism through the arts.

Mission Statement for Multicultural Arts

Our mission is to advocate, initiate, inspire and sustain arts activities for and by participants that address the needs of the diverse range of cultural backgrounds represented in our communitites.

Services we offer include:

* Assistance with writing funding submissions for relevant multicultural arts projects
* Networking with multicultural artists, arts organisations and other organisations as required
* Provision of a referral service for multicultural artists
* Representation of the NT on the national Kultour network A monthly newsletter disseminating information to multicultural artists, community groups and other relevant organisations
* Assistance with administration type tasks including access to computers, photocopying, fax machine and telephones.

Photographs courtesy of monsoonaustralia.com, Darwin Festival 2004.

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t: (08) 8945 7347
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