Booningbah Goories - 'My Connection'

Desert Pea Media is very proud to announce a new collaboration with the Goodjenburra community in Fingal Head, on the North Coast of NSW.
This production, along with a short film were created over 14 days in January 2020 - an outcome of a unique, collaborative creative process with Desert Pea Media artists, local Goodjenurra young people, community members, Elders, and local services.
The overall purpose of this particular project was to facilitate an important, inter-generational conversation about social and emotional well-being for Original Nations young people in 8 communities around the North Coast. The project is called 'Break It Down - Community Conversations Around Well-being' - funded by North Coast Primary Health Network.
Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyze 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities 🙂
The connections created during this project with the community and local young people are friendships that the DPM team highly value and respect. We as a team feel deeply honored to learn, share and create with the Fingal Head families and wider community. These projects not only uplift and inspire audiences and community members, but everybody involved.
'My Connection' was produced by Music Producer Anthony Martino aka 'Stay Nice'. We thank you brother for your artistic vision and awesome work.
Special thanks to Marni Tuala, Kyle and Jarulah Slabb and all the Fingal Mob for having us on your beautiful country.
We are deeply honored to be invited to learn, share and create with you and your family. We honor the ancestors and the stories that reside in that country, and we will do our best to tread lightly, to be respectful and to contribute wherever possible.
CREDITS
Toby Finlayson - Project Director/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator/DOP Coedie McCarthy - Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator Anthony Martino - Music Producer/Co-Writer Renae Saxby - Production Coordinator/Photographer/Social Media Roy Weiland - Editor/Color Grading/Titles David Nicholas - Audio Mixing Darren Ziesing - Audio Mastering Ash Camm - Business Manager Belle Arnold - Project Manager Carlo Santone - Social Media Manager
STARRING
Lyric Tuala, Birren Slabb, Mibin Slabb, Kyle Slabb, Joshua Slabb, Marni Tuala, Jarulah Slab, Raven Tuala, Falon Tuala, Fred Gibson, Dakina Penola, David Gibson, Colin Gibson, Hunter Dee Overall, Jason Tuku-Togo, Kaleb Slabb, Lolo Laga
LYRICS
Goway goway (come here, come here)
Woombing goway (welcome, come here)
Gulga-jaly (collect firewood)
Weburaar gayeh (make fire)
Jingi wallah walu-baying ngallinga menji (hello, how are you?)
That’s what my ancestors hand me, my Goodjinburra family
Binungu ngalungi, listen and look.
A yarn you can’t read in a book from way before Captain Cook
This is the place with the smell of salt on the breeze
All of my G’s, Gooris, PLEASE we livin’ with ease
Catch us surfin’ waves with out mates on the beach
We break free like the whales when they breach
Garrama, nymbalin (respect, contribute) - that’s my connection
The lore that keep it flowin’ in the right direction
Keep this love tight, head down the blue-hole for a mud fight
Respect and contribute, that’s how it’s done right
Booningbah the homeland that we all gotta respect
We the deadly Goodjinburra mob, trying to connect
The key to education is communication
& dedication and don’t you ever forget.
UNIFIED WE STAND
You can never break us down (nuh-uh)
TOGETHER ON THIS SACRED LAND
Check it out - Gudjinburra ground
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE SKY, SEA, SAND
Look around, look out now!
UNIFIED WE STAND
Rise up, rise up, rise up
Yeah there’s a whole lot of us eyah in this coastal bunch
Saltwater mob yeh, ya know what we want
feel our energy rolling in like the swell
Positive vibes only, we want you to be well
We wanna show you around, how to connect to the land
Everybody’s welcome, every woman, child and man
So please don’t cross no lines in the sand
Respect everything, everywhere that you stand
Ya don’t know ya story, ya lost
Ya don’t know ya history, ya wires get crossed
Saltwater mob - Booningbar my town
Fingal Head, represent sacred ground
Look around - Gotta find balance in this life of mine
Yep - I gotta find harmony in body and mind
Got a fine line between the sky, sea and sand
Yeh we gotta come together coz united we stand