Salt Pan Creek with Koori Youth Club

In 2024, students from Sir Joseph Banks High School's Koori Youth Club were invited to participate in artist-led creative workshops exploring the life of activist Joe Anderson, also known as King Burraga, and his historical connection to Salt Pan Creek and the waters than run beneath the city of Canterbury Bankstown.

With a focus on creative expression in various media from music to art, the end result from one of the last workshops is a multimedia mural enhanced with AR technology made in collaboration with MadWings (artist duo Maddison Gibbs and Jason Wing) and Bankstown-local filmmaker and animator Fadle El-Harris of Filmotion.

The creation of the mural concludes a series of workshops in river culture storytelling and traditional creative activities delivered throughout 2022 and 2023. Through these workshops, students from the Koori Youth Club developed skills in songwriting, podcasting and nawi (canoe) building amongst others.

Salt Pan Creek workshops were made possible with funding from the Australian Government through the Indigenous Languages and Arts program.