Wantok Musik Foundation
Apollo Bay, VIC, Australia
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Wantok Musik Foundation is a charity based in Apollo Bay, Australia working on arts & culture, heritage, employment & skills +1 more.
Wantok Musik Foundation is an Australian charity and not-for-profit record label based in Apollo Bay, Victoria, on Gadubanud Country. It works with communities across Australia and the Pacific to record, retain and promote music, languages and cultural knowledge at risk of being lost. It supports First Nations and Melanesian-Polynesian artists through mentorship, employment pathways, album production and releases, and cultural diplomacy projects. Its work includes cultural preservation residencies in Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands, and women-led music projects in the Pacific. The foundation is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC) and accepts tax-deductible donations.
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Feto nia Lian, Feto nia Istoria: Her Voice, Her Story
Heritage · Timor-Leste
A two-week audio-visual recording residency preserving women's cultural knowledge, songs, stories and leadership, building on the first phase of Hamoris Lian Timor.
Na Ainamae na Totoraha
Heritage · Solomon Islands
A two-week audio-visual programme recording, preserving and promoting oral traditions, chants, dances and ancestral knowledge of the Areare and Lau peoples of Malaita.
Music for Change: Pacific Women
Arts & Culture · Tonga, Papua New Guinea
A women-led music and storytelling project supporting women's leadership, creative expression and skills development across the Pacific, including Bougainville and Tonga.
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