Arnhem Land Immersion with Culture College

Arnhem Land Immersion with Culture College

Monday 7 July 2025 – Sunday 13 July 2025
 
In July 2025, MLC School is giving students in Year 9 to Year 11 the unique opportunity to participate in an Indigenous immersion, visiting and supporting remote Indigenous Homelands in Arnhem Land. We are partnering with Culture College Aboriginal Corporation (Culture College), a social enterprise established to inspire and educate secondary school students and empower the next generation of Australia’s leaders.
 
Students will be immersed in the living culture of Aboriginal clans of East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, one of the most culturally intact and pristine regions left on Earth. This unique program will provide privileged access and interaction with the Yolŋu people and their lands of which they have been the traditional owners for over 50,000 years.
 
On this immersion students will:
 
  • Interact with family of the Dhalinybuy/Bukudal Homelands
  • Learn about the differences between homelands and communities including language, bush foods and medicines, moieties, totems and dreaming stories.
  • Learn and participate in a culture that has existed for over 70,000 years
  • The group will stay in safe areas on privately held, permit protected Aboriginal land which is not accessible outside of this setting. We will learn, make, gather, eat, give, grow, and connect with Traditional Owners and Indigenous Australia. We will learn from Elders and Traditional Owners and gain a first-hand understanding of life for our First Peoples in modern Australia.
Please find attached the video recording of the Information Evening regarding the immersion that was held on Monday 25 November 2024.
Click here to view webinar recording
 
If you would like to participate in the Immersion and be a part of this wonderful experience:
 
The final instalment for the Immersion will be due in March 2025.
 
– Tim Lennon
Director of Indigenous Education