Gami Yarns

Gami Yarns is created and supported by Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, Winda Film Festival and City of Sydney's Cultural Resilience Fund.

Gami Yarns Video Making

An animation course for young Indigenous kids interested in telling stories.

Gami Yarns is a workshop teaching children how to film and animate a story. We liked the idea of the children interviewing their Grandmothers and capturing a story to then animate. 

Hear some ready made Yarns

Dear teachers & parents, please get in touch. We'd love to help you bring Gami Yarns to your kids.

Contact

By phone: 0447 671 808

By email: pauline.clague@uts.edu.au

You'll work through the following modules creating your film step by step along the way:

  1. Introduction

  2. Preparation 

  3. Filming Gami 

  4. Planning Your Animation

  5. Creating your Set and Characters

  6. Animating

Supported by the City of Sydney for the Digital Impact grant during COVID-19.

Meet the creators: Pauline Clague and her team

Gami Yarms Course Creators

 

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.