The workshop sessions were invaluable, providing a context for students to understand the thousands of years of complex story within the song. The whole school community was moved by the students singing your ‘Thank You For The Welcome’ song.
Thais Sanson, Castlemaine PS
Jan has done something special here. The song with its message of thank you and acknowledgment of Country should be taken up by all schools. It provides an important way, through music, that we can better understand our place in this land.
Ron Murray – Wamba Wamba storyteller & musician
Your idea to dedicate a work of thanks in response to the Jarra Welcome to Country was thoughtful and progressive. The occasion was moving and profound.
Martin Paten
Festival Director, Castlemaine State Festival
The best Welcome to Country I have ever experienced.
Lynne Kosky, Minister for the Arts, Victorian Government, 2009
We thank you for engaging the students in such rich sessions of storytelling – inspiring dignity, awareness, understanding and appreciation as well as lots of laughs!
Castlemaine South Primary School
incursion
3-6 to 10-12
Australian History, Colonisation, Indigenous, Relationship Between Black And White Australians, Customs Of Welcome, Reconciliation.
90 minutes
$5.00 per student $500 minimum per show 10% discount for second show on same day (Travel and accomodation may apply in some locations.) Available all year in Victoria or nearby NSW. Other states please enquire.
School Term:
Term 1, Term 2, Term 3, Term 4
Jan operates out of Castlemaine, Victoria, and is available all year in Victoria and southern NSW. For elsewhere in Australia it needs to be a string of shows, so please send Jan an enquiry and we'll see if he can come your way.
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