wawa biik is pleased to announce a new experience designed and led in collaboration with Taungurung artist and Elder Uncle Mick Harding.  This is an in-depth experience (5 hours) of walking, yarning, sharing food, making and learning alongside Uncle Mick, his sons and our wawa biik guides.  There is no other Aboriginal cultural experience like this available in Victoria.  Perfect for those with an interest in Aboriginal art, Taungurung cultural practices and connections to Country.   You will travel from Yea wetlands to Yarck and the base of the Gobur Range to deeply engage with Taungurung stories that have shaped and continue to shape this living cultural landscape.

Uncle Mick Harding is a proud Taungurung Elder of the Yowong-Illam-Baluk and Nattarak Baluk clans of the Taungurung Nation. He is a multi-disciplinary artist specialising in wood working, sculpture, and printmaking through his business Ngarga Warendj (Dancing Wombat).  He’ll share in-depth discussions around his work called ‘We Scar Many Trees’, created with his sons over a 10 week period as part of the Art on the Great Victorian Rail Trail project.  Not only will you get to learn first-hand about their creative practice but they’ll guide you through a workshop to make your own stringybark rope – a traditional cultural practice still used today.

A bush foods BBQ shared together in the tranquil Yea Wetlands will be a highlight of the day with opportunities to ask questions of the artists and wawa biik guides while trying traditional bush food flavours.    

This experience is made possible thanks to the support of the Victorian State Government through Creative Victoria.

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