FROM THE BEGINNING

Since 2019, Creative Bama Connections has grown as a community-led initiative, creating purposeful, culturally grounded creative learning spaces. Beginning in partnership with Mamu Elders to support and revitalise language through a creative lens, the work has since expanded across local Yidinji lands—collaborating with communities and organisations to strengthen connection through a First Nations lens.

Spearheaded by Merindi Schrieber, a proud Kuku Yalanji Kubirri and Julay Jalbu (woman), the initiative is driven by her passion to see culture and First Nations ways of doing and being embraced as an everyday, lived practice. Her work creates spaces where culture is not something visited, but something lived—woven into daily life through storytelling, song, and shared experience.

Through this vision, Creative Bama Connections continues to embed meaningful, multi-generational engagement, bringing Elders, young people, and cultural practitioners together to learn, share, and carry culture forward with strength and pride.