The Wintjiri Wiru story begins in the spiritual heart of Australia. Working in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders, including the Anangu Consultation Group, we have brought the ancient Mala Story of the Anangu to life with the use of ground-breaking technology to create an immersive cultural experience.
"We are thinking about our future. We are looking forward and have created Wintjiri Wiru for the next generation, for our grandchildren.
We have held hands with Voyages to create Wintjiri Wiru together. From the beginning, Voyages has been working together with the Anangu Working Group. We have been talking together, listening together and creating together.
People from every place have come to see Uluru. Now we want people to come and experience our story in a new way. We want visitors to know this is our story, to look and listen and feel with us. Our stories have been here since the beginning and we want to share this story with the world.
We have created this show from our heart, and our thinking, for people everywhere to see. Our old people have left these stories for us and we want you to experience our story too.
We always have open arms for people to keep coming to Uluru.
We are one world and we want to share something special with you.
Wintjiri Wiru is a gift to the world."
Rene Kulitja, on behalf of the Anangu Working Group.
'When I saw the show, I was thinking of my grandfathers and others who have passed on this story to me, and it reminded me that I have this knowledge as well.'
'Now I want to see more and more Anangu, older and younger, to lead tours and share culture so people can see the mala story right at the rock. This is a great opportunity from all over the world to see the Mala Tjukurpa in the sky and at the rock.'
Christine Brumby
'I am really privileged and honoured to be part of this project. I am deeply excited in my heart. This is the first time to see this sort of technology used to share our culture and it's a really big thing for us.'
'This is also for our young people, for our future generations, to remember our grandfathers and our grandmothers land the stories they left us.'
'I am really pleased. The first time I saw what we created and I couldn't get to sleep at night. I kept thinking about all the people around the world who are going to come and experience our story.'
'When I heard the inma we recorded I was really proud and happy. I was thinking, 'This is us singing! We are singing our songs!'
'It is a big thing what we have done. We are really pleased and honoured about this project. We should be proud and happy of everything we have achieved.'
'This is great for Anangu, it will create job opportunities for our young people to work and share our stories. This is about teaching our younger people, the next generation to take over and teach our stories.'
'Lots of people are coming to see the rock, to see our culture, our Tjukurpa. This will always belong to us and we want to share it.'
Awalari Teamay
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An ancient story takes flight at Uluru in May, 2023
In February 2023, we announced that a breathtaking, fully-immersive light and sound show was launching at Ayers Rock Resort. Called Wintjiri Wiru, which suggests a 'beautiful view out to the horizon' in local Pitjantjatjara language, this is the first time a light, laser, projection and drone experience of this magnitude has been performed on a regular basis anywhere in the world.
New Wintjiri Wiru Experience Highlights Native Australian Produce
Native Australian produce and Indigenous bush foods will be the heroes of the culinary experience of Wintjiri Wiru, the soon to be launched drone, sound and laser light show at Ayers Rock Resort.
From lemon aspen and wattleseeds to quandong, warrigal greens and lemon myrtle - the menu for Wintjiri Wiru is set to be an authentic celebration of native Australian ingredients combined with modern culinary techniques that match the exciting drama of the new experience.
Wintjiri Wiru Artwork
Mala Story
Christine Brumby, 2021
Christine was born in Utju (Areyonga) community and grew up in Kaltukatjara (Docker River). She now lives in the Mutitjulu community with extended family and near her father's traditional lands. Coming from a long line of artists, Christine paints the Tjukurpa stories of the region, the stories of the Mala (Rufous hare-wallaby) people, Kuniya & Liru and the Seven Sisters, passed on to her from her family.
"All the women are going around collecting food, grinding kampurarpa (bush tomato), mingkulpa (desert tobacco), wangunu (Woollybutt grass seed) for damper and collecting kaliny-kalinypa (honey grevillea). When they collect mingkulpa, they take it and it gives them energy when walking a long way.
My painting also has the Mala people story. I was learning this from the old people before. All around Uluru, those really green trees - those are the Mala people ones. Near the Women's place is one tree, kaliny-kalinypa (honey grevillea) with really orange flowers. That's the Kurpany - devil dog one. He was watching the Mala people who were sleeping after doing ceremony and dancing. That Luunpa Woman (Kingfisher Woman) was calling out, "Pakala, pakala! Mamu coming." They all woke up and ran away."
Christine Brumby, July 2021
