{"id":2618,"date":"2025-10-15T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/?post_type=events&p=2618"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:21:39","slug":"wirlomin-noongar-language-and-stories-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/events\/wirlomin-noongar-language-and-stories-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You are invited to the launch of two new Noongar-language picture books produced via a partnership between Curtin University and Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories<\/a>, with support from the Australian Research Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ngalak Yongka Miyak Koorliny \/ Visiting the Kangaroo Moon Site<\/em><\/a> takes readers to the Great Southern region of Western Australia, where a granite outcrop bears natural imprints resembling the different phases of the moon. In the story a Wirlomin elder takes family to the site and shares a cultural yarn about how the kangaroo wonders why it will pass away once and forever, but the moon comes back to life month after month after month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wirrawoorliny\/Whirlwind<\/em><\/a> shares the story of a boy who is camping alone and hears strange sounds in the night. When he goes to investigate he is set upon by a djanak, a devil of Noongar Country. He is promptly eaten, but something incredible happens when his bones are left in the dust: a whirlwind appears and builds his body again, piece by piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Kim Scott and Dr Cass Lynch will speak about the collaborative community research that informs the books, the process, and do a reading on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim Scott<\/strong> is an award-winning Noongar author who has worked extensively in Indigenous education and the arts. Kim is also a convener of Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories. Kim\u2019s second novel, Benang (1999), won a number of literary awards, including The Miles Franklin, which he won for a second time with That Deadman Dance (2010) along with the South-east Asia and Pacific Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize, the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal and other accolades. His work has been translated and published in China, India, Holland, Japan and France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim was awarded a Centenary Medal, and in 2012 was awarded Western Australian of the Year. He is a member of the West Australian Writers Hall of Fame and in 2022 was declared a State Cultural Treasure. Kim is currently employed as Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cass Lynch<\/strong> is a Koreng Wudjari writer and researcher and is descended from the Noongar families of Ravensthorpe in the Great Southern region. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Curtin University where she works on the revitalisation of south coast Noongar songs and stories. She is a committee member for Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories and the co-founder of the Aboriginal literature endeavour Woylie Project. Her short fiction and poetry is taught at universities and high schools in Western Australia and Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Event Details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Friday 31 October 2025
12:30pm \u2013 1:30pm
Free event, open to the public<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light refreshments provided<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The books are a creative output of the ARC Future Fellowship Project FT210100857: Narrative, Technologies and Wirlomin Moorditj-abiny, sponsored by the Australian Research Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banner image: Kangaroo illustration courtesy Wirlomin Noongar Language & Stories Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","event-locations":[5],"class_list":["post-2618","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","event-locations-john-curtin-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-locations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-locations?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}