We have been incorporated for a year now so it was very good timing for us to have our first Communty launch.
Members of our Womens group presented the 7 Sisters Inma and the children from Kaurna Plains school danced. Naomi Hicks sang along with her children and nieces and sister and we were honoured to host several overseas guests including Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim of the 13 Grandmothers Council.
Grandmother Agnes is from the Takelma nation and has been traveling to different communities over the last few weeks.
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We had a wonderful weekend camp…thanks to the gorgeous Goddesses who came from two Communities up north to join us in the Riverland.
Along with the Mandala art and making clay beads, we work-shopped the Vision for the Womens groups…then painted terra cotta pots and planted the Sunflower seeds that will grow along with the new changes..
Thankyou to the Women for allowing us to photograph the art work and capture the many wonderful moments where Nanas and great grandchildren, Community leaders and members sat and enjoyed the creative processes together….what better way to spend a weekend in the Riverland sun?
Deanna Nungala and I feel very privileged to have been invited to host the Celeberating our Community camp and look forward to our Miminis Nopin Inc ventures in 2009 when we can return the gifting by visiting the Women and seeing how the Sunflowers have grown….
Miminis Nopin – Women on the Move…
We think we have found art based activities that everyone- young and old -can enjoy together…and sme1954 …you may find new pathways open when you get creative too!
Deanna and I wearing the clay necklaces we made during the Apology week, to honor the Mothers whose children were stolen from them. Nungala is a Stolen Generation survivor and a Warrior Woman of the heart in the truest sense….
Our Vision Workshopping Board….
Painting the clay beads they have rolled earlier in the day is wonderful for concentration for the little kids and fun~creativity for all ages…
Little sister can create and paint her own beads too!
This pot-painter will seed some fantastic changes for her Community I am sure…
The gorgeous goddess with the smile that lights up rooms and hearts…
Our Chef extraordinaire took time out from her delicious food-making to paint a pot of her own…
Lady birds for good luck turned up on the top of this artists work….
…as you can see….
Mother and Daughter creating together……they have a vegie garden at home and the new Sunflowers might fill that garden one day! One single seed births the seeds of many new flowers over one single season…
…seeding the Vision is a journey of process, attention, watering and ….patience….
…all pots are sealed with varnish and the upper torso lean, with head titled upward is a spraying skill learnt after accidentally inhaling a nostril full of varnish dust on the first ever pot. Interesting shadow cast on the ground there….
On October 11, 2004, 13 Indigenous Grandmothers from all over the world—the Arctic Circle, North, South and Central America, Africa, and Asia—arrived at Tibet House’s Menla Mountain Retreat amidst 340 acres of forests, fields and streams in upstate New York. Within a few days of convening, the grandmothers agreed to form a global alliance; to work together to serve both their common goals and their specific local concerns.
The first council gathering was a time of hope and inspiration.
The Grandmothers are both women of prayer and women of action. Their traditional ways link them with the forces of the earth. Their solidarity with one another creates a web to rebalance the injustices wrought from an imbalanced world; a world disconnected from the fundamental laws of nature and the original teachings based on a respect for all of life.
