The Yarnup pilot program runs this year from January 1 through to June 30, 2008. The focus is on schools in NSW to begin with. More than 30 schools are involved from right across the state:

Bonnyrigg High School                St Dominics High School               St Scholastica
Masada High School                    Loreto Kirribilli                              Gunnedah High
Kyogle High School                     Kingscliff High School                    Dubbo College
Dubbo Distance Education          Cowra High School                        Mudgee High School
Mullumbimby High                     Condobolin High                            Mungindi Central
Henry Lawson High                    Waverley College                           Loreto Normanhurst
Cranbrook College                      St Catherine's                               Tempe High School
Mercy Catholic College                Menindee Central                          Shoalhaven High
Taree High                                 Airds High                                     Tweed River High School
Chatham High, Taree                 Homebush Boys High                    Nthrn Beaches Christian School
Richmond River High                  Brisbane Water Secondary
                                                 College Local Management Group

















KEY DATES FOR THE 2008 YARNUP PILOT PROGRAM


Please note: the following timeframes are a guide. A school can move through the program faster if they wish to. The program must be completed by Sept 10, 2008 however.


February 11- 29, 2008

Initial Phone Conference Calls  between the School Leaders and the Yarnup  Team.


February 16 - April 22, 2008    "TALKING THE STORY"

School Leaders organise their 'Kanyini' Film Screenings and invite their local Indigenous
Community to the event.


April 23 - May 15, 2008      "WALKING THE STORY'

The school students walk with their local Indigenous brothers and sisters on local country to understand history and the land through Indigenous eyes.


May 16 - Sept 10, 2008

The school students create a 'visual expression' of the growing relationship between the school and the local Indigenous community. Short films/photographs/artworks to be submitted to us by June 23. Please send to:


Shelley Pedersen
Yarnup Program
35 Nichols St
Surry Hills NSW 2010


Sept 17, 2008

The winner of the competition will be announced !

And that means one lucky school will have a visitor very soon...Uncle Bob, the subject of the film, "Kanyini"!