Learn the basics of Kaurna language in this Workshop.

Join Kira Bain for a Kaurna language workshop, introducing pronunciation, greetings and basic terms. Connect with culture by starting to learn one of our First Languages. Bring along any questions you might have about using language.  Age: Adults 16+

Price: FREE

Bookings: Bookings essential – spaces are limited

Skill Level: Suitable for beginners - no prior experience required

About Kira…

Kira Yaltu Bain is a Ngarrindjeri woman that was born on Kaurna Yarta. She has been learning Kaurna since she was 13 years old and has since been teaching it in a variety of organisations and schools. Kira is a Kaurna Language Trainer at Tauondi Aboriginal College and dances with Tal-Kin-Jeri dance group. Kira has been involved in resource development, consultation, language translations, dancing and teaching language qualifications and workshops. She has assisted many schools and organisations with increasing their use of Kaurna language whilst on Kaurna Yarta. Kira aims to raise her children as multilingual, immersing them in as much of their languages and cultures as possible to ensure they have a strong sense of identity and connection. Kira wants to give her children the opportunities that her family didn’t have, the right to speak their language and practice their culture and with the help of her Elders and community she is able to do that.

Join us at ACE on Saturday 21 February to celebrate the opening of Kumarangk.

About the Exhibition Kumarangk is an intergenerational love letter for Ngarrindjeri women; an exhibition that explores the survival of culture, and resistance to colonial destruction.

Kumarangk will showcase a mix of newly commissioned and existing works from Ngarrindjeri women artists. Sandra Saunders’ Hindmarsh Island Collection will be remounted for the first time since it was first exhibited 20 years ago, alongside a major new painting that will conclude the collection. Through a series of paintings and wire works, the Hindmarsh Island Collection retells the story of the building of the bridge to Kumarangk (colonially known as hindmarsh island) and the resistance of the Ngarrindjeri women and allies. 

The exhibition also features major new works from Mardawi Art Collective, which includes the legendary Aunty Ellen Trevorrow, alongside Elizabeth Rankine, Margi Sumner, Temeika Campbell, Bessie Rigney, Zemiah Campbell, Debra Rankine and Stephanie Russell. 

Kumarangk will also feature new weaving pieces from Aunty Betty Sumner, Sonya Rankine, Carly Tarkari Dodd and ceramics from Tiarnie Edwards.

Image: Sandra Saunders, Ngarrindjeri/Boandik people, South Australia, born Millicent, South Australia 1947 ‘Nature’s Justice’, 2025, Port Lincoln, South Australia. Oil on hardboard, 130cm x 75cm. Photography by Connor Patterson.

Support: Kumarangk is supported by the South Australian government through Create SA; Country Arts SA; and Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE).

This project is presented and supported by Adelaide Festival.

This project is also presented as part of Tarnanthi.

The publication is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation.

This project is also supported by SA Water and the Graham F Smith Peace Foundation Inc.