waynapuni pools: Ceremony (2025)
Videography: Flare Productions
Featuring Original Poem: Something So Sacred by Ella Downham
Producer: Sophie Ambler
Graphics: Sprinks World
A live ceremony and public bathing session from waynapuni pools 2025. A bathhouse built from wrecked cars by Aboriginal youth, centered on rituals of care, and communal healing. The experience unfolds through Something So Sacred, an original poem by Ella Downham
Presented By:
LEAD ARTIST
Benjamin Paul
PRODUCER
Sophie Ambler (Kitsch Events)
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Karadi Aboriginal Corporation
FEATURING ORIGINAL POEM
‘Something So Sacred’ by Ella Downham
BATHMASTERS
Kain Devine
Khynan Langdon
Layla Fowle
Malachi Robinson
Wyatt Rainey
CEREMONY HOSTS
Briley Crossin
Dale Langdon
Ella Downham
Layla Berwick
Shontay Devine
Teya Baira
CEREMONY FACILITATORS
Jamie Langdon
Linton Burgess
Warren Mason
INDIGENOUS CONSULTANT
Theresa Sainty (Milangkani Projects)
SPECIAL THANKS
Alison Quilliam
Tim Nicholas
Joseph Shrimpton (Flare Productions)
Dovetail Timbers
Sprinks World
SUPPORTED BY
Creative Australia
Arts Tasmania
Rosny Farm
City of Clarence
Montrose Bay High
Milangkani Projects
Holdfast Building Surveyors
Black Bird Yellow Eye
waynapuni pools was held on Mumirimina Country, which is today in the care and responsibility of Palawa people as survivors. "waynapuni" (why-nah-pu-nee) is in palawa kani, the language of Tasmanian Aborigines. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
Featuring Original Poem: Something So Sacred by Ella Downham
Producer: Sophie Ambler
Graphics: Sprinks World
A live ceremony and public bathing session from waynapuni pools 2025. A bathhouse built from wrecked cars by Aboriginal youth, centered on rituals of care, and communal healing. The experience unfolds through Something So Sacred, an original poem by Ella Downham
Presented By:
LEAD ARTIST
Benjamin Paul
PRODUCER
Sophie Ambler (Kitsch Events)
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Karadi Aboriginal Corporation
FEATURING ORIGINAL POEM
‘Something So Sacred’ by Ella Downham
BATHMASTERS
Kain Devine
Khynan Langdon
Layla Fowle
Malachi Robinson
Wyatt Rainey
CEREMONY HOSTS
Briley Crossin
Dale Langdon
Ella Downham
Layla Berwick
Shontay Devine
Teya Baira
CEREMONY FACILITATORS
Jamie Langdon
Linton Burgess
Warren Mason
INDIGENOUS CONSULTANT
Theresa Sainty (Milangkani Projects)
SPECIAL THANKS
Alison Quilliam
Tim Nicholas
Joseph Shrimpton (Flare Productions)
Dovetail Timbers
Sprinks World
SUPPORTED BY
Creative Australia
Arts Tasmania
Rosny Farm
City of Clarence
Montrose Bay High
Milangkani Projects
Holdfast Building Surveyors
Black Bird Yellow Eye
waynapuni pools was held on Mumirimina Country, which is today in the care and responsibility of Palawa people as survivors. "waynapuni" (why-nah-pu-nee) is in palawa kani, the language of Tasmanian Aborigines. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.