Ella Bancroft

Facilitator

Ella Noah Bancroft is a descendent of the peoples of the Bundjalung nation and has bloodlines to England, Poland and Scotland. Indigenous change-maker, artist, storyteller, mentor and founder of The Returning and Yhi Collective, Ella Noah Bancroft is an active advocate for The Decolonisation movement. Through her writing and work Ella has been promoting re-wilding, the rise of the female energy, as a way back to deep relationship nature and decolonizing personal, social and ecological well-being for 10 years. She is widely respected amongst her community and believes in local communities with local economies as a way to find hope for the health of our planet and people.

Merindah Funnell

Merindah Funnell is a Tubba-Ga women from the Wiradjuri Nation. Her mother is from the Western Plains of NSW. Merindah’s great-grandfather is the famous Alex Riley (‘Tracker Riley’) from Dubbo NSW. Merindah is an Aboriginal Artist practicing culture within her art, ranging from large-scale murals to illustrations such Dharawal Counting and Colouring, of which she is a published author. Her clients include the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sydney Festival, Redfern Community Centre – City of Sydney, Bankstown Arts Centre, Western Sydney University, Parramatta Council, Sydney Festival, VIVID Festival, Subsonic Music Festival, Secret Garden Festival, and Honi Soit.

Kirrily Dawn

Kirilly Dawn is a Barkindji woman, doula, dancer and embodiment practitioner. Her work is in guiding women deeply into their bodies, connecting them with what is felt, sensuous and alive within in order to access our body’s cellular and inherited wisdom. She works somatically with women in birth preparation, postpartum processing and during birth to embody their birthing experiences. Her movement and birth work is rooted in animism, and an honouring of the intuitive and instinctive wisdom of our moving bodies.

Lyndsay Urqhuart

Lyndsay Urqhuart is a Koori Munkata Yuin woman growing up in the Dharawal community of western Sydney. Passionate about remembering and sharing her cultures with her family and as a teacher of Indigenous arts, Lyndsay is a public education guide. As a practising Indigenous oral historian, Lyndsay works as a documentary filmmaker as a way of preserving and sharing important information and perspectives. Lyndsay works as a curator and as a multidisciplinary artist in the area of communications, so as to share and help educate communities about the world’s oldest continuing cultures.