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Image credit: Galup featuring Ian Wilkes. Photography by Dan Grant, courtesy of Same Drum (commissioned by IAS)
Galup VR Experience
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audience members are advised that this production includes names, images and voices of people who have passed away. Names, images and voices are used with permission.
Whadjuk Noongar Elder Doolann-Leisha Eatts shares a buried history hidden for nearly 200 years.
October 13, 2024 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
FREE EVENT (recommended for ages 13+)
Saturday 12 October – Narrogin Agricultural Show (John Higgins Centre) No bookings required
Sunday 13 October – Arts Narrogin (Corner of Park & Fairway St) Bookings through Arts Narrogin
The session times for Sunday 13 October are 11am, 11.45am, 12.50pm, 1.30pm with a maximum of 15 participants per timeslot.
Tuesday 15 October – KEEDAC (The Hub, 2 Gordon St) Bookings through KEEDAC
ABOUT Galup VR Experience
Galup VR Experience is a cinematic virtual reality work exploring the transformative impact of truth telling.
In the heart of suburban Perth there’s a lake with a buried history. Whadjuk Noongar Elder Doolann-Leisha Eatts spent her life sharing the truth of what really happened there.
Lake Monger was a traditional Noongar camping and meeting place known as Galup (Kaarlup) – a place of fires. Today, thousands of people visit the lake and its iconic black swans without knowing the events that happened there or understanding the significance of this important site.
Galup VR Experience is an invitation to learn more about Australia’s collective past as you sit with Doolann by her fire and hear about one of the first colonial massacres of Noongar people.
Noongar performer Ian Wilkes and his son Calven join Doolann to immerse you in this powerful retelling of history. As the rush-hour traffic passes by and the centuries slip away, they shed light on the tragic events that occurred in and around Galup in 1830, guiding audiences towards an immersive understanding of Noongar culture and the impacts of settler colonialism.
This profound and intimate truth-telling experience brings people together for connection and healing. Created by Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger with an oral history from Elder Doolann-Leisha Eatts, produced by Same Drum and guided by a team of supportive Noongar Elders, Galup will resonate with you long after you leave.
‘I have lived my whole life dreaming that this story would be told. It was my greatest desire, right from when I was 10 years old.’ – Doolann-Leisha Eatts
‘Galup VR Experience’. Photography by Dan Grant 
‘Galup VR Experience’ (film still). Courtesy of Same Drum 
‘Galup’. Photography by Dan Grant, courtesy of Same Drum 
‘Galup’. Photography by Photography by Poppy van Oorde-Grainger, courtesy of Same Drum 
‘Galup’ featuring Doolann-Leisha Eatts. Photography by Poppy van Oorde-Grainger, courtesy of Same Drum 
‘Galup’ VR Experience. Photography by Marnie Richardson 
‘Galup’. Photography by Photography by Poppy van Oorde-Grainger, courtesy of Same Drum
Galup VR Experience tours regional WA in 2024-25 with ART ON THE MOVE and Same Drum, made possible through the Regional Exhibition Touring Boost with funding managed by Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries and from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
