Wakakirri
Wakakirri is an Australian national story sharing festival for primary schools that has been running since 1992. Wakakirri is a word from the Aboriginal Wangaaypuwan people meaning "to dance".
Format
The Wakakirri National Story Festival comprises six story based performing and creative arts competitions for all Australian schools. Primary schools are invited to share stories through performance or creative arts.
Primary schools are invited to create stories, present and share their works at Wakakirri Festivals held around Australia. These festivals are held in front of live audiences, online and through an annually distributed DVD. It's free to enter for all schools. Former years have seen over 30,000 students from 500+ schools.
The six competitions
- STORY-DANCE The original story event, first held in 1992. A Story-Dance is a story told on stage in 3–7 minutes using a blend of dance and acting to pre-recorded music or live vocals.
- STORY-TELLING Telling a story on stage through narration and dramatics.
- STORY-SINGING Singing an original song that tells a story to acoustic or pre-recorded music.
- STORY-WRITING Writing an original story.
- STORY-ARTS Using a collection of slides to tell a story. Photography, collage, drawing, painting (as well as other art forms) are encouraged.
- STORY-FILM Students film, star in, edit and present any story using any film style (animation, doco, music clip, drama…) in under five minutes.