Birrang Gulaay, Signature Indigenous Cultural Experience

Birrang Gulaay ‘crossing from where you have been to where you are headed’

 “The idea of
this as the name is that in each instance the clients will arrive from where
they’ve been, will go through ceremony involving ochre, will begin a
facilitated cultural journey of personal immersion through story, painting,
meditation, experiential, conversation, realisation, food and tangible
outcomes. The name really means crossing from where they’ve been to where
they’re headed by immersion in the Importance of place."

 Allow 4.5 hours 

1. Guests are greeted by Birrunga Wiradyuri.

2. Birrunga will do an Acknowledgement of Country 

3. Ochre ceremony. Birrunga
will cleanse the space using ochre and draw the symbol of the experience with
the ochre to anchor the intention of the experience. 

4. Importance of Place
workshop. 

• Discuss the concept of Importance of Place in Aboriginal culture
  and how that can relate to clients experience 
• Share stories of personal and
  family lore 
• Share Wiradyuri central lore 
• Discuss painting technique wet on
  wet 
• Demonstrate painting 
• Didgeridoo meditation 
• Clients to paint their own
  canvas 
• Share experience with the group 
• Canvas will be left to dry at the
  gallery and posted to client once dry, with a personal hand written note from
  Birrunga 

5. Guests taken to a cultural space and introduced to degustation by General
Manager 

• 5 course degustation menu infused with native ingredients.
• Birrunga to join clients and share the meal experience. During
  which time clients will have the opportunity to unpack the workshop experience
  with Birrunga and Birrunga will share more cultural stories.

 6. Private guided cultural tour with Birrunga. Birrunga will talk about the Creative Cultural
Development Program and the team of young Aboriginal artists he mentors. He
will share stories of their artwork and development alongside truth-telling and
stories of his own personal works on display in the space. 

7. Birrunga will
farewell guests and invite them to relax in the space for as long as
they like before he departs.