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Yalinguth First Nations Augmented Audio App
Things To Do Fitzroy, Yarra, Victoria
Cultural and Theme Tours
“Be careful where you put your feet, because as we say, you’re walking all over our history” (Uncle Colin Hunter)
The Yalinguth app is a unique and immersive way to experience the history of significant places from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective. In the Woi Wurrung language Yalinguth means “yesterday”, and echoes the sentiments of many Elders that “we need to go back, before we can go forwards”.
This multi award-winning self-guided walking tour app provides an immersive audio-augmented reality experience. You’ll hear geo-located stories from many notable Elders, music, and atmospheric soundscapes as you wander along. Stories are shared in this spatialised sound environment in such an intimate way, it’s as if the Elders are right there with you.
Charge up your phone, download the app (preferably over Wi-Fi), grab your headphones (the best experience by far with headphones!), and head to one of two Yalinguth locations:
Gertrude Street in Fitzroy, Melbourne
Birrarung/Yarra River, Melbourne CBD
(see specific tours for more info about each site).
Further locations will be added over time – watch this space.
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Take a journey to Melbourne’s iconic inner-city Fitzroy (known as Ngár-go in the Woi Wurrung language) via an augmented audio app called Yalinguth. It’s an immersive geolocated audio experience about the important Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history of Gertrude Street. Did you know this is where the Rights Movement began for First Peoples, in Melbourne’s iconic Fitzroy!
This Yalinguth walk is made up of many spoken stories, songs, poems, and atmospheric soundscapes. You’ll discover birdsong that once filled the Melbourne air, a local protest recorded years ago in that location, and musicians and storytellers such as Uncle Jack Charles and Uncle Archie Roach.
Charge your phone, download the app (preferably over wi-fi), grab your headphones and head to Fitzroy for an unforgettable day of immersive storytelling, and some great re-fuelling pit-stops along the way.
(There is approximately 3 hours of content in the app that you can dip in and out of)
For a ‘beginning feel’ head to the Fig Tree, near the corner of Gertrude and Nicholson Streets. There is a brass plaque at its base. Easily accessible via the 86 Tram Route (Stop 13), close to the Melbourne Museum just north of the city.
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Pet Friendly - EnquireTake a journey through time along the Birrarung/Yarra River in Naarm/Melbourne CBD via an augmented audio app called Yalinguth, which means ‘yesterday’ in Woi Wurrung, the language of the Wurundjeri people. Yalinguth is an immersive geolocated audio experience that follows the river from Enterprize Park (near Queens Bridge) to the MCG sharing history through stories, from a First Nations perspective.
Stories and soundscapes include what this area was like in pre-colonial times before the tall ships arrived, the impact of colonisation, the rights movement and staunch leaders, marngrook/ AFL, and the pre-colonial history of the MCG site, being an important gathering place. You’ll also hear relevant music along the way from Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Kev Carmody and Kutcha Edwards.
For a ‘beginning feel’ start at Enterprize Park on the river between Queens Bridge and the Aquarium, and work your way to the MCG via Federation Square and Birrarung Marr. The walk may take 1-3 hours depending how long you stop at various locations, or stop to refuel!
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Free Entry
