Elliott 

 

Facilitators Beatrice Lewis and Monkey Marc have been attending Elliott providing music workshops to the young people of Elliott in 2014 - 2016. They have been creating music on issues that affect the small town 200k's North of Tennant Creek on the Stuart Highway of the NT. Issues such as drink driving, domestic violence, binge drinking, gambling and culture were discussed in the songs and film clips. 

A film Clip of a local traditional story; Goanna Dreaming describes the traditional story in a contemporary way for a new generation. Working with elders and custodians of the story, the story was recorded first as a spoken word piece then re - created into a song. 

The fellas from Elliott; "The E - Town Boyz" have been touring extensively in 2015, playing at Wide Open Space Festival in May, Bush Bands in Alice Springs and have been conducting positive Role Modelling workshops with the schools of Imanpa community as apart of their Healthy Living week and Ampilatwatja community as apart of the CAAMA music program in November 2015. 

Aussie Battler, a well known MC from Hip Hop groups the Herd and Astronomy Class joined Monkey Marc to produce songs with the young people of Elliott in December 2015. 

The following film clip was recorded and filmed at the Elliott school and encourages young kids of Elliott to go to school to get an education.