Painting, a movie and a great big cake

There was a movie called “Bran Nue Dae” filmed in Broome a few years ago.  It was based on a musical comedy theatre production that ran for many years in Australia and is about a local Broome boy who is sent to boarding school in Perth but runs away.  It’s about his long road trip to get home to Broome.  We had a film night with the interpreters last night.  It was a perfect audience to watch it with.  Half the people in the film were related to people in the room.  They were singing along to all the corny songs and laughing really loud at jokes that you can only understand properly if you come from here (and are an aboriginal).  The folks sitting on the floor working on huge aboriginal art canvases just added to the atmosphere.  And there was a nice cake involved.  So very fun evening really.

The wall painting is almost ready.  It represents people from many different campfires coming together at a big campfire.  Basically, it's a record of the gathering of people at the interpreters conference.