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STORY SHARING Digital Storytelling workshops

November 5, 2025

Along the mighty Meanjin – Brisbane River

3-4 November 2025

Stick Mob joined the talented ILF Talent Pathways Program participants in Meanjin-Brisbane to write and illustrate stories that celebrated Country.

It was great to see everyone again after our storytelling workshop in Mparntwe-Alice Springs earlier this year.

DAY ONE – STORY GATHERING

We began our first day by the Brisbane River — the rainbow serpent who shaped Meanjin and the people who belong here. Walking along the boardwalk through the remaining rainforest, we took time to imagine what this Country looked and felt like long before the city was built.

We then visited the Natural History Museum, and afterwards went to GOMA to see Kith and Kin, an exhibition by Kamilaroi and Bigambul artist Archie Moore.

DAY TWO – STORY TELLING

The next day we listened for the stories that stayed with us from Day One. We began by sketching a three-panel comic, letting those stories guide our ideas.

Declan and Alyssa shared advanced skills in Procreate — layering, shading, and how to guide a story across a page with panels.

By the end of the day, each participant shared their digital story, showing their growing confidence as storytellers.

THE BRIEF

GALLERY

Deborah 'Rose' Archie – Bulla, Northern Territory
Deborah ‘Rose’ Archie – Bulla, Northern Territory


Bronanna Waterloo – Amanbidji, Northern Territory

Rusinya Brooks — Milikapiti, Snake Bay, Northern Territory

Sheriekah Polkinghorne – Katherine, Northern Territory

Rosie Saddler – Amanbidji, Northern Territory

WORKING DRAWINGS

Bronanna Waterloo is from Amanbidji, Northern Territory 
Rusinya Brooks, who goes by “Ruby”, is from Milikapiti, which sits on the northern side of Melville Island, the bigger of the two Tiwi islands. 
Rosie Saddler – Amanbidji, NT
Deborah Archie, who goes by “Rose”, is from Bulla in the Northern Territory, located 130 km east of the Western Australian and Northern Territory border. 
Sheriekah Polkinghorne – Katherine, NT

THE WORKSHOP

Alyssa teaching the ‘power of layers’