Blak Led Tours Tasmania
Services
Experience Development
We regularly accept contracts to develop new and bespoke tours and experiences. Our past clients have included local government, accommodation and events venues and Aboriginal Community organisations.
Storytelling Projects
In addition to tourism we also work across a broad variety of storytelling and interpretation projects. Our commissions have included community health projects, writing commissions, panel and event facilitation, and artwork development to name a few.
We are able to work on projects of any scale from cultural consultation to full service project management
Want to work with us?
Here at Blak Led Tours we are always excited to collaborate on new projects at any scale. Have a look at examples of past work by scrolling through our commercial portfolio below. If something we’ve done in the past sparks your interest or inspiration or you have a new and exciting project that you think would suit our skillset we would love to hear from you!
It would be very helpful if timelines, budgets and expectations can be specified. Information on our standard rates and a business profile can be sent on request.
Project Enquiry
Past Clients
Commercial Portfolio
makara patapa / quit smoking (Client: Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre)
Project Overview
Blak Led Tours Tasmania was contracted by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre to undertake a storytelling project around the makara patapa/quit smoking program offered through the Aboriginal Health Service.
Goals of the project were for Aboriginal people to hear stories about smoking cessation and for TAC service providers to understand the long-term and holistic approach taken by the service. This was to be achieved through the creation of enduring resources to support the program, delivered through as many mediums as possible, across the state.
Process:
To engage the community, the storytelling project centred around the theme of Good smoke/bad smoke – contrasting the ways Aboriginal community use smoke and fire culturally (for gatherings, cooking, caring for country, ceremony, cleansing etc) to the use of cigarettes.
To deliver this project a 12 episode podcast series was created, alongside three promotional films, two visual artworks and a support journal.
These were all launched at a community cultural burn weekend at trayapana/Triabunna.
Outcome
The makara patapa quit smoking journal is now in its third reprint and continues to be widely distributed across all five offices of the Aboriginal Health Service and Aboriginal Centre throughout the state.
An added benefit of this project was that this storytelling project was completely led and managed by Aboriginal people, thirteen Aboriginal community stories were recorded for the podcast.
Of the eight contractors that received payments for the delivery for this project, seven were Aboriginal people and businesses – including in the recording and editing of the podcast, art commission and caterers for the launch event. A further three community members (one from each region) received prize funds for their participation in the story sharing.
mumara Patrula / wood for the fire (client: Kingborough Council)
Project Overview
Development Team
Created by: Nunami Sculthorpe-Green
Dramaturge: Sarah Hamilton
Produced by: Performing Lines TAS and Kingborough Council
Presentation 2022- 2023: Kingborough Council
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Outcome
In total,15 tours were delivered as part of this commission. There were more than 300 attendees – both local and interstate visitors that attended mumara patrula throughout the 15 initial tours.
mulaka milaythina (Client: Clarence City)
Project Overview
Blak Led Tours was commissioned by City of Clarence to produce a new fully accessible 90 minute walking tour as well as a 30 minute spoken word piece to be performed alongside a music composition for an eleven-piece ensemble. Both were to be premiered at the 2023 Clarence Jazz Festival.
For the creation of mulaka milaythina/the Hunting Ground, Nunami worked with internationally renowned pianist and composer Louise Denson to make a new 30 minute composition with spoken word and musical composition.
Deliverables:
The tour was delivered during the 2023 Festival and the musical piece, following the premiere was has gone on to be performed at events across the region.
And the music performance has been performed multiple times since it premiered and has been recorded as well.
Future of the Project
In 2024 the piece was recorded at Frying Pan Studios and will be made available to the wider public and be used as the basis of an in-school workshop
Tunapri trayapana (Client: Spring Bay Mill)
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Nunami of Blak Led Tours Tasmania was commissioned by Spring Bay Mill to engage in a process of truth telling, exploring the Tasmanian Aboriginal history of the site in order to develop a new Aboriginal tour of the Mill site.
tunapri trayapna / understand Triabunna is a 90-minute tour that connects participants with the deeper layers of history that exist on the site that is already brimming with visible layers of story.
tunapri trayapana is a story of resistance and regeneration ~ of both the land and people ~It speaks to the story of Big River and Oyster Bay people of the area, putting their stories back into the landscape and connecting attendees with the deep history and current regeneration of the Spring Bay Mill site at trayapana
Outcome
Tunapri trayapa was delivered for the first time at Spring Bay Mill at Nocturna for the Beaker Street Festival in August 2022 and has been offered to those attending conferences, events and festivals at Spring Bay Mill – such as the Squid Fest, and the Firesticks Alliance/Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Communtiy Gathering in 2022
Beaker Street Festival
For Beaker Street Festival 2023, Nunami appeared at Beaker Street as part of discussion/panel alongside Theresa Sainty and Andry Sculthorpe. The panel discussed cultural knowledge around star knowledge and tar stories.
This was the third year contributing to the festival. After facilitating a panel on the topic ‘Is Science Really for Everyone’. This panel featured palawa women Zoe Rimmer, Theresa Sainty and Professor Maggie Walter.
The panel spoke to why so many people and so many cultures feel excluded from, and even exploited Western Science, highlighted the limitations of western science in capturing indigenous knowledges and ways western science can be incorporated into cultural revitalisation projects.
