https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/a-murmuration/2347700803784
Created in 2023 by local film maker, Michael Joy, A Murmuration tells the inspiring story of Healing Home, Healing Place – a collaborative project that took place in the home of Dharug elder, Uncle Colin Locke – and the founding of Buran Nalgarra, Kindlehill’s Senior School program. Selected for screening on SBS in NAIDOC Week 2024, the documentary explores learning for connection, healing, and impact around community issues that have global relevance.
Buran Nalgarra is derived from the Dharug dalang (language) and speaks to strength and learning through togetherness. The impetus to create the documentary was borne of a desire to contextualise the place-based learning model designed to address real-world issues which sits at the heart of Buran Nalgarra, our senior-high school program. We have launched a senior-high school program which looks quite different to the conventional year 11 and 12 model – illustrating our approach and its outcomes through this moving narrative gives people a way to sit with and understand our pedagogy in a deeper way. Storytelling sits at the heart of Steiner education, and it is our hope that this story engages our local and broader community emotionally and intellectually as we seek to broaden the idea of what senior high school learning can look like.
The Senior School program is an educational initiative that seeks to meet young people in meaningful ways, addressing global concerns in a local setting, and building connections that enable impactful change. Buran Nalgarra is an innovative alternative to the HSC and, at its core, a commitment to social and ecological responsibility.
A Murmuration is a celebration of the impact we can have when creativity, community, and education intersect.
To read about current Year 11 projects, go the Blog at https://blog.kindlehill.nsw.edu.au/
Georgia is a professional actor who has worked extensively across theatre, film and tv. Most recently, she played Sal Thornhill in Sydney Theatre Company’s production of The Secret River at the 2019 Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre in London. Georgia is a passionate teacher and has taught for Sydney Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare Company, in juvenile justice centres and through her own business, Blue Mountains Drama.
