These stunning productions are a must-see, and project every night of the week onto our Historic Court House in the heart of our CBD. It's FREE, and there's no need to book.
Wakulda (Weaving our Stories As One), is an immersive, sound and light projection onto the Port Macquarie Historic Courthouse, on Clarence Street. This 10-minute production will envelop the audience, telling the important stories that make up the rich history of Port Macquarie from our traditional owners of the land, the Birpai people, right through to the current day of the Bicentenary of European settlement in April 2021.
Wakulda is a Federally-funded legacy project (see acknowledgements at the end of this page), and will continue to be screened nightly, beyond the Bicentenary event period.
Connecting the Dots - Mara Nyiirun.gay Barrayga Nyaagi Djuyal (Come With us on Country to See Story)
This projection is the next iteration of the highly-successful legacy installation Wakulda: a cultural tourism attraction created/developed as part of the Bicentenary Event Program in April 2020. Designed in partnership with creative design studio Esem Projects and projected onto the town’s Historic Courthouse, Wakulda is an ongoing immersive, nightly, 10-minute production that denotes the critical heritage and culture stories from both an Aboriginal and European perspective. And now, Connecting the Dots features a jam-packed schedule of musicians, dancers, performers, artists, and writers lighting up the Historic Courthouse in Port Macquarie’s CBD.
Spoken by Aunty Rhonda and included as written text throughout the production.
Guudji Yiigu ‘greeting’
Nyura Yii-Gu Mara-La Barray-Gu
Nyaa-Gi, Ngarra-Gi ‘you have come here to the land to see and to learn’
Gathay Nyiirun Wakulda ‘Let us all go together as one’
Marrungbu ‘Thank you’
Yii Birrbay Barray ‘This is Birrbay Land’
Bila Yii Maraliyn
Bila Yii Maraliyn ‘the river is flowing’
Maraliyn Djuyalmaliyn ‘flowing and growing’
Baara garuwagu ‘down to the sea’
Barray Nanggu Barrangang Marra
Burray Yii Ganyiy Ngatha ‘Mother Nature carry me, a child I will always be’
Bila Yii Maraliyn ‘the river is flowing’
Baara garuwagu ‘down to the sea’
Bila Yii Maraliyn
Bila Yii Maraliyn ‘the river is flowing’
Maraliyn Djuyalmaliyn ‘flowing and growing’
Baara garuwagu ‘down to the sea’
Barray Nanggu Barrangang Marra
Burray Yii Ganyiy Ngatha ‘Mother Nature carry me, a child I will always be’
Bila Yii Maraliyn ‘the river is flowing’
Baara garuwagu ‘down to the sea’
Project Leads: ESEM Projects
ESEM Projects Team
Dr. Sarah Barns (Project Lead/Creative Director)
Michael Killalea (Creative Director)
Kane Skennar (DOP)
Gary Sinclair (Sound)
Anna Fraser (Motion Graphics)
Omee Deling (Live Action Producer)
Leif Wilson (Technical Direction)
Uncle Bill O'Brien
Aunty Rhonda Radley
Ngarrgan Mirriiyn Choir
Jamie Donovan Artist
Patricia McInherny
Participants of the Weaving Thyme with Trish Workshop
John Heath
Krissa Wilkinson
James Bennett singer songwriter ('Waves')
Hudson and Nate Marriot (Skate park)
Byron Willis (Skate park)
Charlie Hyde (Skate park)
Mark Ennor (Horses)
Contributors to the 'What I Love' call out
Port Macquarie Museum
Birpai Local Aboriginal Land Council
MakerSpace
Sea Acres Rainforest Centre
Gypsy Falls Retreat
The Wakulda Digital Projection received funding by the Australian Government under the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program; Regional Tourism Bushfire Recovery grants program, an Australian Government bushfire recovery initiative; Building Better Regions Fund; as well as Port Macquarie-Hastings Council.