Australia’s first set of Indigenous emojis made on Arrernte land in Tyuretye/Mparntwe!
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What a day. After years of worry, the NT Government has finally declared ‘name-akurne‘ a w**d! It’s been strangling our Country and squeezing and burning out lots of important local plants and animals, which is why we made an emoji for it. This decision may give them a chance to breathe again.
As Veronica said recently “The land, the language, and the plants and what’s on the land… it’s all part of you. It’s you know, it’s not one thing or another, everything seems to be all together. That’s how I see it and that’s how I was taught to see it by my elders.”
Someone sent us this… A set of Indigemoji stickers being carefully installed on an esky! Did yours arrive? Where did they end up? Send us a pic!
Proper flash! Proud of Veronica, Joel and Matt being featured in the We Are Google Play campaign! Kicking of a new Sillicon Valley in the desert… Ochre Valley ✨ Read
more here: https://play.google.com/console/about/weareplay-australia/
Keep an eye on the post! 💌
Kele mwerre!!! Thank you! We're so excited to have not just reached but exceeded our target. Thanks to you we raised $13,820 which will be part-matched by Creative Australia as part of MATCH Lab. This will help us re-develop the app so that it can be used by our young people and language learners everywhere for years to come (and work towards so new features too)! We know it's tough out there with cost of living and everything so we so so grateful for you support. It means a lot.
A particular shout-out to Radical Systems, Ben McNamara, Sarah Fenton, Swee Lim, Stephen Choi and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education RTO 0383 for their particularly generous donations. We're blown away. Kele angketyenhenge.
Werte! This is a little prototype we made, dreaming of some new features for the Indigemoji app... like turning the hand signs into GIFs! We're super close to reaching our stretch target for our fundraising campaign, that would give us enough to make these… hope we can share these with you soon.
Just one day to go to donate. We’re so grateful if you have! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app?ref=creator-nav
If you need a tax deductible receipt you can also donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app
Anwernenhe helpeme-ilaye, Indigemoji akwete-ante atnyenetyeke!
Help us hold Indigemoji forever!
Just a little message from us... Thank you! 🖤💛❤️
Just two days left to donate! We're just a tiny bit short of our stretch goal of $15K, if we reach it we'll get to work on some new audio and GIF features for the app. We're almost there thanks to you all! And it's a last chance to pick up one of our limited edition laptop stickers too: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app?ref=creator-nav
If you need a tax deductible receipt you can also donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app
Anwernenhe helpeme-ilaye, Indigemoji akwete-ante atnyenetyeke!
Help us hold Indigemoji forever! We're so so grateful to everyone who has donated, thank you!!
Last chance to get your hands on one of these super cute limited edition Indigemoji laptop stickers! Yours for a $10 donation or $50 for the full set. Just a few days to go to donate. Every dollar goes to First Nations creators to fix, upgrade, maintain and develop some new features for the much loved Arrernte emoji app. Help keep it going! 🙏
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app/description
If you need a tax deductible receipt you can also donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app
Anwernenhe helpeme-ilaye, Indigemoji akwete-ante atnyenetyeke!
Help us hold Indigemoji forever!
Amazing what a news story can bring! A very special donor saw this lovely story in the The NT News last weekend, and made a big big donation, meaning we've reached our initial target!! 🚨🎉🙏🏿 Kele mwerre!! Hopefully we can tell you a bit more soon.
We're still accepting donations for another five days, and if we reach our stretch goal of $15K we'll get to work on some new audio and GIF features for the app, we're almost there! And it's a last chance to pick up one of our limited edition laptop stickers too: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app?ref=creator-nav
If you need a tax deductible receipt you can also donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app
We're so so grateful to everyone who has donated, thank you!! Thanks for being a part of this journey with us. Kele.
😳 We've had two big donations who will receive some incredible shots from our photographer friend Ben McNamara! 😳 Kele mwerre!!! THANK YOU! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 We're now over half way, and the offer still stands... 😉
Donate here: https://www.kickstarter.com/.../save-the-indigemoji-app
If you require a tax deductible receipt, you can also donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app
Well this is quite the offer... our photographer friend Ben McNamara is offering a day photoshoot to anyone who donates $800 or more: https://www.instagram.com/p/C575f1Qvq44
He took this ripper shot of emoji boss Joel Perrule Liddle recently... ure 🔥
Donate and help us save our much loved Arrernte emoji app: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app
If you require a tax deductible receipt, you can also donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app
Well this is quite the offer... our photographer friend Ben McNamara is offering a day photoshoot to anyone who donates $800 or more: https://www.instagram.com/p/C575f1Qvq44
He took this ripper shot of emoji boss Joel Perrule Liddle recently... ure 🔥
Donate and help us save our much loved Arrernte emoji app: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app
If you require a tax deductible receipt, you can also donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app
Kele mwerre!!! Thank you! We're 20% of the way there already!! But still a way to go...
Help us save the Indigemoji app. It's been five years since we made it and it's stopped working on lots of phones. We need your help to fix it so we can keep sharing language together!
Donate here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app
If you require a tax deductible receipt, you can also donate here:
https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53/save-the-indigemoji-app
And thanks for sharing. 🙏🏿
Want one of our deadly limiteed edition Indigemoji laptop stickers? Just donate $10 or more to our little fundraiser and we'll send you one!
It's been five years since Indigemoji, our much-loved Arrernte emoji app first came out! But that's a long time on the internet and it's stopped working on lots of phones. We need your help to fix it so we can keep sharing language together!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app
Anwernenhe helpeme-ilaye, Indigemoji akwete-ante atnyenetyeke! Help us hold Indigemoji forever! Kele mwerre, thank you! ❤️
Werte! We need your help to save our app!
It's been five years since we released the Indigemoji app (arerte!). But it's got a bit old and buggy and has stopped working on some phones. We've been keeping it going the best we can but we need your help to fix it properly so we can keep sharing language together! 🖤💛❤️
Our app has always been free, so we're hoping you might be able to help us a little or a lot, to keep it going. Every dollar you give will be matched as a part of Creative Australia’s MATCH Lab. (So if you give us $5, we get $10.) 💸 Also we'll send you one of our limited edition laptop stickers.
Donate here, and please share. 🙏🏿
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app
If you require a tax deductible receipt you can also donate here:
https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app
Anwernenhe helpeme-ilaye, Indigemoji akwete-ante atnyenetyeke! Help us hold Indigemoji forever!
It’s with the heaviest of hearts that we farewell our dearest Aunty K, emoji boss extraordinaire, who left us a few weeks ago. Aunty K was at the absolute heart of Indigemoji, shaping the language and look of our emoji set, most particularly with her urtakerte emoji she made herself, intricately hand-drawn, of her dancing ladies on their journey under the starlight. We will miss your encyclopedic wisdom and cheeky giggle every day. Thank you forever Aunty K.
Biggest congrats to our very own Joel Perrule Liddle, Franky Gorey and Veronica Perrule Dobson on this world-first paper published in Arrernte and English: Apmerrke Areye-kenhe Utnenge Rlterrke-irrirtne-tyenhenge / New thinking about old ways: Cultural continuity for improved mental health of young Central Australian Aboriginal men via Wiley.
Read the full paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eip.13473?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic&HootpostID=70d6d240-0b94-4364-bd5a-9a753cd625c7&Profile=wileypsychology
Congratulations Kathleen!! Emoji boss. ❤️❤️
What a woman. 🙌🏾 Heartfelt congratulations to Dr Kathleen Kemarre Wallace on receiving an Honorary Doctorate today from Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education RTO 0383
We were honoured recently to have Kathleen share some of her stories with our staff, and highly recommend you get your hands on her new book ‘Listen Deeply, Let These Stories In’ “To all the people I would say: Come, listen to us, we will tell you our culture. Learn from us. That way we will all survive.” (IAD Press) 🖤💛❤️
Thanks ABC News!
A new app with a 112 emojis aims to preserve the endangered Kaytetye language for younger generations — and users across the country.
What a celebration it was at Barrow Creek on Saturday for the launch of Kaytetyemoji, our new Kaytetye language emoji app, out now! Thanks to all who braved the rain to come and celebrate with us and to Vincent for singing for us too. ❤️
Regional Arts Australia Watch This Space Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education RTO 0383Red Hot Arts Central Australia Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney Innovation ANU Barrow Creek Hotel
Apaytene errwanthe! New Kaytetyemoji app! Out now! A year ago Kaytetye speakers got together to translate and make 44 Kaytetye language emojis for you to use. Featuring words and phrases to listen to and learn.
Download here:
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/kaytetyemoji/id6447392500
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.kaytetyemoji.app&hl=en_AU&gl=US
With thanks to Regional Arts Australia Red Hot Arts Central Australia Watch This Space Innovation ANU Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education RTO 0383 Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney and the Johnston Foundation.
Kaytetemoji... Coming soon! 🚨
Regional Arts Australia Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education RTO 0383 Red Hot Arts Central Australia Watch This Space Innovation ANU Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney and the Johnston Foundation
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Kele mwerre!!! Thank you! We're so excited to have not just reached but exceeded our target. Thanks to you we raised $13,820 which will be part-matched by Creative Australia as part of MATCH Lab. This will help us re-develop the app so that it can be used by our young people and language learners everywhere for years to come (and work towards so new features too)! We know it's tough out there with cost of living and everything so we so so grateful for you support. It means a lot. A particular shout-out to Radical Systems, Ben McNamara, Sarah Fenton, Swee Lim, Stephen Choi and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education RTO 0383 for their particularly generous donations. We're blown away. Kele angketyenhenge.
Werte! This is a little prototype we made, dreaming of some new features for the Indigemoji app... like turning the hand signs into GIFs! We're super close to reaching our stretch target for our fundraising campaign, that would give us enough to make these… hope we can share these with you soon. Just one day to go to donate. We’re so grateful if you have! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app?ref=creator-nav If you need a tax deductible receipt you can also donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app Anwernenhe helpeme-ilaye, Indigemoji akwete-ante atnyenetyeke! Help us hold Indigemoji forever!
Just a little message from us... Thank you! 🖤💛❤️ Just two days left to donate! We're just a tiny bit short of our stretch goal of $15K, if we reach it we'll get to work on some new audio and GIF features for the app. We're almost there thanks to you all! And it's a last chance to pick up one of our limited edition laptop stickers too: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app?ref=creator-nav If you need a tax deductible receipt you can also donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app Anwernenhe helpeme-ilaye, Indigemoji akwete-ante atnyenetyeke! Help us hold Indigemoji forever! We're so so grateful to everyone who has donated, thank you!!
Werte! We need your help to save our app! It's been five years since we released the Indigemoji app (arerte!). But it's got a bit old and buggy and has stopped working on some phones. We've been keeping it going the best we can but we need your help to fix it properly so we can keep sharing language together! 🖤💛❤️ Our app has always been free, so we're hoping you might be able to help us a little or a lot, to keep it going. Every dollar you give will be matched as a part of Creative Australia’s MATCH Lab. (So if you give us $5, we get $10.) 💸 Also we'll send you one of our limited edition laptop stickers. Donate here, and please share. 🙏🏿 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/indigemoji/save-the-indigemoji-app If you require a tax deductible receipt you can also donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000005KM53MAG/save-the-indigemoji-app Anwernenhe helpeme-ilaye, Indigemoji akwete-ante atnyenetyeke! Help us hold Indigemoji forever!
Biggest congrats to our very own Joel Perrule Liddle, Franky Gorey and Veronica Perrule Dobson on this world-first paper published in Arrernte and English: Apmerrke Areye-kenhe Utnenge Rlterrke-irrirtne-tyenhenge / New thinking about old ways: Cultural continuity for improved mental health of young Central Australian Aboriginal men via Wiley. Read the full paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eip.13473?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic&HootpostID=70d6d240-0b94-4364-bd5a-9a753cd625c7&Profile=wileypsychology
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Emoji itne-areye Australia mpwepe-arenye. itne ayeye anwerne-akerte, altyerre-akerte, angkentye akerte uthene. Arrernte angkentye anwernekenhe impene anthurre, altyerrenge. Australian-mpwepe angkentye atningke akerte kenhe Arrernte Mparntwe-arenye kwenhe. Marle, urreye, arelhe, artwe-areye-uthene-arle emoji-kenhe arlkenye intelheleke uterne-ureke. Emoji arrpe-anenhe arritnye Arrernte-kenhe-akerte, anwerne ahentye arrantherre itnenhe akaltye-irretyeke. Anwerne internet-nge itnenhe arrerneke kele angkentye anwernekenhe rlterrke-aneme-akwete.
This project began with a tweet.
A tweet featuring a list of emojis with Arrernte words next to them. A tweet the internet couldn’t get enough of.
A few of us had recently been discussing why there weren’t any Indigenous Australian emojis out there. We didn’t have a good answer, except perhaps for the obvious - that no-one had made any yet.
And then we saw the tweet and we knew it was time, so we rang Joel. Soon we had a team of emoji bosses in place - Joel Liddle Perrule, Veronica Dobson Perrurle and Kathleen Wallace Kemarre and together we began dreaming of what a set of emojis from Central Australia could look like.
Over the 2018 summer school holidays, 960 young people participated in eight weeks of emoji workshops, which became a hub of drawing, designing, making, experimenting and discussing language. Many had never used an iPad before. They were mentored by a group of talented Indigenous artists Graham Wilfred Jnr, Phillip McCormack, Emma Stubbs and Colleen Powell, who were in the space all summer thanks to support from inDigiMOB, a digital inclusion partnership between First Nations Media Australia and Telstra. We ended up with hundreds and hundreds of drawings and emoji concepts, many of which you can see on this website alongside the final emojis.
Read more about the full team here.
Indigemoji is now a sticker set of 90 emojis representing life, culture and language of Arrernte Country in Central Australia, closely considered and guided by our emoji bosses. Each has an Arrente name, the traditional language of Mparntwe/Alice Springs, words we hope you’ll learn. We’ve also developed emojis for special totemic species, either endangered or extinct. A simple emoji of a bilby or a bandicoot promotes their memory, their name, their places in the landscape where they sprang into existence in the Altyerre and where they moved about on their epic journeys. This way they remain in our landscape.
The stickers are available for you to use and share through a free app available through the App Store and Google Play, which was developed by Leigh Harris at Indigenous design agency Ingeous Studios in Cairns.
This project also comes at a critical time of rapid technology uptake and new connectivity in Central Australia. It invites local people to imagine what they could do with these new platforms. How are they not just another colonising force? And how can we embed our languages and culture in them, to make them our own?
That’s what Indigemoji has been about.
Kele.
