Art & Music

Every Thursday the Aboriginal ladies from the Alice Springs Lutheran Congregation meet at the church for Bible study and choir practice. They are known as the Mission Block Choir (or Kwatja Etatha).

The Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir has received a Special Achievement Award at the recent National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs).

A portrait of Docker River Lutheran Beryl Bell entitled ‘Beryl and Jesus’ has won this year’s  $10,000 Australian Life photography prize. Amy Jean Harding took the photo of Beryl in April 2016.

The Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir (CAAWC) has been invited to perform at the Serenade! International Choral Festival to be held in Washington DC USA from 28 June – 2 July 2018.

The 6 August 2017 marked the world premiere of a new film about the Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir entitled The Song Keepers.

A 90-minute independent documentary entitled ‘The Song Keepers’ will premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in early August 2017. 

The story of the Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir is now a feature-length documentary, The Song Keepers – soon to premiere in Melbourne.

Ruth Cook is a Lutheran artist from Central Australia. Her Christian and secular art features themes and symbols from her Western Arranda culture.

Wilbur and Monika Klein normally live and work at Tjuntjuntjara, 660km east of Kalgoorlie WA. They decided to use their long service leave volunteering with FRM for the first six months of 2015.

At Hermannsburg the song ‘Kumbayah’ was sung in fifteen different languages at the same time. Eleven of those languages came from the hearts of the multi-Grammy award winning Soweto Gospel Choir.