banj ba walert : water and possum

Stacie Nicholson-Piper Stacie Nicholson-Piper is a proud Wurundjeri, Dja Dja Wurrung and Ngurai Illum-Wurrung woman, a Djirri Djirri Dancer, and the current Chairperson of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. Stacie holds the position of First Nations Curator at TarraWarra Museum of Art in Healesville, and Curator for Museums Victoria, accountable for engaging with the Victorian First Peoples community and developing a program of exhibitions and events to tell their stories. Stacie is currently helping curate the William Biik exhibition at the Victorian State library. Stacie has a great love for community, a desire to support and witness the progress of First Peoples, and a drive in protecting and healing Country. Aunty Vicki Nicholson-Brown Aunty Vicki Nicholson-Brown is one of Stacie Pipers mother’s 15 siblings, she is the third youngest and is 64 years of age. An Elder and knowledge keeper, Aunty Vicki, has immense years of activism and community work and has achieved many positive changes and accomplishments in community and beyond. Djirri Djirri Dancers Djirri Djirri are the only Wurundjeri female dance group, and are Traditional Custodians of Narrm (Melbourne) and surrounds. Djirri Djirri means Willy Wagtail in Woiwurrung, our Mother Tongue. The Willy Wagtail is the Spirit’s Messenger and gave us dance! Our dances honour our Liwik (Ancestors), Kerr-up-non (Family), Biik (Country) and animals. We are all connected by blood through one woman, Borate, Berak's (William Barak’s) sister. We ngarrga (dance) and yinga (sing) together as bininang (cousins), babi (nieces), girrin (aunties), baban (mothers), manggip (daughters), liwurruk (sisters) and bubup (babies).