GOOLWA - Created especially for Just Add Water, the design and construction of Kondoli, the Ngarrindjeri/Ramindjeri word for whale, is currently under way.
It will be a magnificent inflatable storytelling space catering for up to 50 children at a time.
Local schools have worked with multi award-winning community artists Bob Daly and Kalyna Micenko from SpinFX Australia to create the art work that will become Kondoli.
Participating schools were Goolwa and Strathalbyn Primary Schools, Raukkan Aboriginal Community School and Investigator College.
With the help of teachers and parents as well as local sewing groups and volunteers, the images are now being appliqued onto panels of brightly coloured parachute silk and are being pieced together.
Construction of the whale is taking shape at Signal Point until February 17, 2012.
Kondoli will be housed at the Goolwa and Strathalbyn Libraries and will migrate around the Alexandrina Council region throughout 2012 and beyond, providing an opportunity for Ngarrindjeri stories to be enjoyed by children all around the peninsula for years to come.
For more information contact Ollie Black at ollie.black@alexandrina.sa.gov.au or visit www.artsalexandrina.org.au
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