Aboriginal children learning about culture through animation techniques

By Briana Shepherd, Australian Broadcasting

A grassroots community program in Perth is using animation and technology to entice young Aboriginal children to learn and then share their family’s culture and history. Students from nearby schools have been coming to the Champion Centre in Armadale once a week for the term-long project. It sees a number of volunteers help the students research, write, and then animate stories related to their family’s culture. Former Disney and Pixar writer and animator Dougie Pincott, from the UK, has been leading the program. “I work in community centres around the world facilitating arts and animation projects and poetry workshops,” he said. “I use animation and poetry and storytelling as a way to express stories, history and identity.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-25/wa-indigenous-technology-noongar-elder-program/7536112

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