'Yanajanak' Performance in Darwin

In August 2009 the Iwaidja Inyman team at Minjilang organized two public performances in Darwin. For the first time, Yanajanak musicians and singers from Croker Island performed their song cycle in a non-Indigenous setting at Charles Darwin University in front of a largely non-Indigenous audience. Yanajanak is a song cycle from the stone country around Mt Borodaille in Northwestern Arnhem Land. The two performances took place on August 15th.The first formed part of the 8th Annual Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance and the second, later that day, opened the Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture on the lawns outside the Mal Nairn Auditorium.