Djandak Wi Strategy - Dhelkunya Wi 2024 - 2034 YAPENYA – COMING TOGETHER AT A SPECIAL MEETING PLACE, A JOYFUL DAY OF DJANDAK WI We had our Djandak Wi 2023 season launch event at Yapenya, Harcourt North, on a site owned by Dja Dja Wurrung in late April, and it was an amazing event with such good vibes. It was a cooler day, very clear and still in the morning. It was an early start for staff supporting the event, getting the site ready for People to arrive, setting up marquees, and warming the urns for tea and coffee, so we could all feel warm and comfortable before sharing in ceremony and then Djandak Wi. It was the first time a significant gathering had been held there for a while, after years of isolation living through the COVID-19 pandemic, and we were so happy to be coming together in this way to celebrate our successes and formally launch the Djandak Wi autumn burning season. We also acknowledged and paid our respects to the Ancestors, and the many Elders and Cultural fire leaders that had worked so hard paving the way for so many years before. Some Djaara uncles welcomed us, and shared warm words of thanks, gratitude, and encouragement to us all, and talked a little about the history and Cultural significance of the area. Some of the Djaara mob were then engaged in focused attention and physical exertion, sharing turns twisting a drill stick quickly back and forth with their hands to generate embers from some grasses underneath, but it was still a bit damp and cool with not much wind, so they really had a task on their hands getting that flame to ignite that day.
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