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P-2BMC– Bunya Mountains Ceremony
| P-2TSIC – Celebrations within Torres Strait Islands Culture | P-2AST - Story Telling at Aboriginal Celebrations | P-2ATA– Recording Traditional Aboriginal Celebrations through Art |
Learn how the Bunya Mountains Ceremony is celebrated: long ago and in the present day. Includes discussion of location, food gathering, traditional dress and artwork
| Learn about two traditional Torres Strait Island celebrations- the traditional dress, instruments and artefacts used. Participate in a sit-down Torres Strait Island dance | Learn how traditional Aboriginal celebrations included storytelling and participate in a dreaming story as told during traditional Aboriginal celebrations | Experience drawing using Aboriginal art symbols and patterns as used long ago to record traditional Aboriginal celebrations. Create a take home art piece |
| P-2TDC – Traditional Dress at Celebrations | P-2TSIMD – Music and Dance in Traditional Torres Strait Island Celebrations | P-2AMR - Aboriginal Men’s Roles during Celebrations | P-2AI – Instruments used in Aboriginal Celebrations |
Learn how women used natural fibres to make garments worn at traditional Aboriginal celebrations. Dress and make your own wrist/ankle band using traditional techniques
| Learn about traditional Torres Strait Island instruments and the relationship between traditional dress worn and dancing performed during different celebrations | Learn about the traditional weapons used by Aboriginal men to carry out their roles preparing for celebrations. Watch a demonstration of how the weapons were used | Learn about and experience clap sticks, didgeridoo, gum leaves and bull roarer as played in celebrations and take part in a traditional Aboriginal celebration performance |
| P-2WBF –Role of Women and Bush Food in Celebrations | P-2TSIL – Language used in Torres Strait Island Celebrations | P-2ATG - Traditional Games at Aboriginal Celebrations | P-2DAM – Roles the Didgeridoo plays in Celebrations : Art and Music |
Learn how women and bush foods contributed to traditional Aboriginal celebrations. Make a traditional cooking vessel from modern materials
All lesson plans are © Brisbane Catholic Education, 2000
| Learn about the different languages of the Torres Strait Islands including words from the Kala-Lagau-Ya language used to describe instruments and traditional dress worn at celebrations
| Learn about the importance of games played at traditional Aboriginal celebrations and experience playing a traditional game | Learn how the didgeridoo is regarded as an art form as well as an instrument in Aboriginal celebrations. Participate in a group performance |