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Stay Tuned...Some Kiilalaana open sessions coming soon.Miss you mob.Aunty Shan #
04/04/2026

Stay Tuned...

Some Kiilalaana open sessions coming soon.

Miss you mob.

Aunty Shan
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27/02/2026

More Than a Foundation — Why Kiilalaana Is a Movement

Our story iis still being told and the journey is still unfolding...

The Story Behind Kiilalaana | Why This Work Had To Be Born
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This is more than a founder story.
This is a remembering.
In this deeply personal yarn, I share the journey behind the Kiilalaana Foundation — where it began, why it had to be created, and the responsibility I carry as a Barkindji/Ngiyampaa woman, mother, and community leader.
Kiilalaana was never just a program.
It is a response.
A reclamation.
A space created so our young people and our Nhuungku can remember who they are — beyond survival, beyond the systems that were never built for us.
Inside this episode, I speak to:
✨ The moment Kiilalaana was seeded
✨ The lived experiences that shaped this path
✨ Why cultural safety and belonging matter now more than ever
✨ What I see for the next generation of Wimpitja
✨ And the deeper why that continues to guide this work
If you have ever felt the call to create something bigger than yourself…
If you care about the future of our young people…
If you believe in community-led change…
This yarn is for you.

19/02/2026

Closing up the space that showed us what real sovereignty and self-determination looks and feels like...

Heart breaking closing this space. Yet Kiilalaana is an energy and movement we carry in our hearts. We are Kiilalaana and she is us...

Hey everyone, due to the weather we are cancelling Kiilalaana closing event until the 6th Feb. Thank you for your under...
30/01/2026

Hey everyone, due to the weather we are cancelling Kiilalaana closing event until the 6th Feb. Thank you for your understanding and consideration. Shantelle

25/01/2026

Dance and Culture group FINAL session in the Kiilalaana space this coming Thursday 29th Jan.

Hope you can make it to create memories and connect.

22/01/2026

Come down and help us honour and pay respects to our Kiilalaana space and home.

Closing our doors on the 31st January.

Aunty Shan

This Saturday, Kiilalaana Foundation is opening our doors for two community gatherings grounded in culture, creativity, ...
08/01/2026

This Saturday, Kiilalaana Foundation is opening our doors for two community gatherings grounded in culture, creativity, and connection on Latji Latji Country (Mildura).
These sessions are about more than activities — they are about creating safe, welcoming spaces where people can come together, yarn, learn, create, and reconnect with culture and community in everyday ways.

🌞 Morning Session | Cultural Connection Workshop
🗓 Saturday 10th
⏰ 10:00am – 12:00pm
💲 $25 per person
Open to all cultures and peoples

This workshop includes:
• Yarning and storytelling
• Games and cultural learning
• Jewellery making and creative expression
• Gentle cultural education through shared practice

This space is designed to support understanding, respect, and relationship-building through lived cultural experience.

🌿 Afternoon Session | Kiilalaana Gathering (Young Mob Focus)
🗓 Saturday 10th
⏰ 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Free community session for young people
Activities include:
• Arts and crafts using natural materials
• Weaving, feathers and quandongs
• Making necklaces and earrings
• Yarning, laughter and connection

This gathering is about strengthening identity, belonging, and wellbeing through culture, creativity, and safe community spaces.

📍 Location: 143 Ninth Street, Mildura (Latji Latji Country)
📱 Registration via text: 0432 804 919
🚗 Transport home available if needed

At Kiilalaana, our work is grounded in the belief that culture is not a program — it is a living practice of connection, healing, leadership, and belonging.
These pop-up gatherings are part of how we keep culture strong, accessible, and woven into everyday community life.

If you’re local, we’d love to welcome you or your young people into these spaces.

If you’re part of organisations, schools, or community services — this is the kind of grassroots, culturally-led work that creates real, long-term impact.

Always walking with community,
Shantelle Thompson OAM
Founder, Kiilalaana Foundation
Barkindji Warrior | Warrior Heart

08/01/2026

Kiilalaana Young Mob — this one’s for you 🖤💛❤️
This Saturday we’re gathering for a Kiilalaana Pop-Up — a space to slow down, yarn, create, and reconnect through culture, story, and making together.

✨ Arts & Crafts
✨ Quandongs, feathers, weaving
✨ Making necklaces & earrings
✨ Yarning, laughter, and being together in good way

This isn’t about being “good at art” — it’s about being together, learning, sharing, and feeling strong in who we are.

📍 143 Ninth St, Mildura (Latji Latji Country)
🗓 Saturday 10th
⏰ 2pm – 4pm
📱 Register via text: 0432 804 919
🚗 Transport home available

Come as you are. Bring a friend. This space is for you.
Always held in love,

Aunty Shan & the Kiilalaana mob

17/12/2025

Aunty Shan - Kiilalaana Update
Kiilalaana Update — from me

I wanted to share an update directly, in real time, from the space itself.

In this video you’ll see me unlocking the door and walking in — because that’s where Kiilalaana is at right now. I’m still here. Still showing up in the physical. Still holding the line as Founder and Aunty Shan.

Our future isn’t guaranteed.
And that’s the truth.

But we are not out of the fight.

This is one of those seasons where the work gets tested. Where leadership isn’t about certainty or confidence — it’s about presence. About continuing to show up even when there are no guarantees, no clear outcomes, no safety net.

I’m here because I still believe in this work.
I believe in our young people.
I believe in what Kiilalaana was built for.

Sometimes this is how it goes.
We get challenged.
We’re asked to show up and fight with what we’ve got — heart, integrity, effort — and then allow the rest to meet us halfway.

This isn’t a performance.
It’s me, still standing, still choosing sovereignty over fear, still answering the call.

Whatever comes next, know this:
I didn’t walk away.
I didn’t disappear.
I’m still here.

For community.
For culture.
For the next generation — now.

🖤💛❤️
Aunty Shan
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16/12/2025

Founder Journey of Kiilalaana

This is a moment from my founder journey with Kiilalaana.

At this point, Kiilalaana was already alive —
being built through community, commitment, and showing up
long before there was recognition or funding attached to it.

The Fellowship of Indigenous Leadership came as part of that journey,
not as a beginning, but as a moment where the work already underway was seen.

I’m sharing this to honour the path —
the early days, the responsibility, the learning,
and what it takes to build something for community
before it looks like anything from the outside.

Kiilalaana has always been about service, calling mob home to themselves. Creating brave spaces. And igniting the call of all future Ancestors now, not tomorrow.

This is one chapter of that story.

26/11/2025

✨ Kiilalaana Turns 5 — And Our Story Is Still Being Written ✨

Power. Connection. Remembering. Becoming.

Five years ago, Kiilalaana opened its doors with nothing but a vision, a prayer, and a promise — to create a space where our women, our young ones, and our families could come home to themselves. A space that wasn’t built by systems, but by mob. By Dreaming. By lived experience. By courage.

Today, at five years old, Kiilalaana is standing at a crossroads.
We are still fighting to keep our home.
Still showing up without wages, without funding, without certainty — but with a fierce commitment to our girls, our women, our community and our Ancestors who asked us to build this place.

And as we fight to save this space, we also celebrate the stories that have carried us this far.

Today we honour Tara — one of our first Kiilalaana Tiddas.

Her journey is woven into the early threads of who we are.

Tara walked into Kiilalaana carrying weight, wisdom, and that quiet spark of power that so many of our women hold before they fully recognise it.
In this video, Tara shares a story that speaks to all of us — a story about:

✨ Power
✨ Connection
✨ Owning our journey
✨ And remembering the strength we hold in our own hands

Through her original artwork, she shows what it means to break the chains of the past, to reclaim identity, and to choose a future rooted in purpose and potential.
This piece is her gift to Kiilalaana — and we honour her for allowing us to share it, to uplift our story, and to strengthen the path we’re fighting to protect.

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Why We’re Sharing This Now

Because Kiilalaana deserves to be here for generations.
Because our young ones deserve spaces that are safe, sovereign, and shaped by mob.
Because stories like Tara’s shouldn’t disappear — they should multiply.

We are fighting to keep our doors open.
We are fighting to protect a home that has already changed lives.
We are fighting for the next generation of Kiilalaana Tiddas who are yet to walk through our door.

This is grassroots.
This is global.
This is legacy work.

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✨ Call to Action — Stand With Us ✨

If Kiilalaana, Tara’s story, or this movement speaks to you, here’s how you can walk with us:

🖤 Donate — any amount gets us closer to keeping our home open
💛 Share this video — help us raise our voice wider
❤️ Reach out — message us if you want to support, collaborate or help in another way
🤎 Invest in our vision — so our girls and women never have to fight alone

Kiilalaana turns five — but we’re just getting started.
This is our season of fighting for our Dreaming, raising our voice, and protecting a space built by us, for us, with us.

More stories are coming.
More art.
More truth.
More Kiilalaana Tiddas reclaiming who they are.

This is legacy.
This is Sovereignty.
This is Kiilalaana.
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