WA Day Festival

Celebrate WA Day at the WA Shipwrecks Museum on Sunday 6 June with activities from 11am to 3pm.

In Western Australia’s South West region, the Nyoongar seasonal calendar includes six different seasons in a yearly cycle. Learn about the Nyoongar Six Seasons and create and take home a beautiful cushion cover based on them.

Your creativity will be inspired by the Nyoongar Six Seasons which are indicated by changes in local plants and animals. The seasons include Birak (the first summer), Bunuru (second summer), Djeran (autumn), Makuru (the first rains), Djilba (the second rains), and Kambarang (the flowering).

Join artist Liz Narkle, a Noongar woman with family connections in the South West of WA, as she creates a stunning Sand Artwork piece on the front lawn of the WA Shipwrecks Museum.

The artwork is based on WA’s coastal region and has meaningful representation within it. The white waves crashing on the yellow sand represent WA’s beautiful beaches; symbols of kangaroo and emu footprints represent Australia’s coat of arms; representations of footprints made by Aboriginal people during corroboree while connecting with Country — “Nyoongar Boodja”.  And the symbol in the middle of the artwork represents the meeting place where community gathers today to celebrate Our Boodja — Our Country, the Great State of Western Australia.

These events are presented by the Fishing Boat Harbour Traders Group as part of a family friendly, free WA Day Festival in Fremantle. The Festival is a celebration of our Western Australian community: a time to come together to share and value cultural diversity.

Copyright Liz Narkle