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.