In 2025, six artist-choristers; Judith Pungarta Inkamala and Anita Mbitjana Ratara of Hermannsburg Potters, and Marjorie ‘Nunga’ Williams, Betty Conway, Lizzie Topsy Topora Jako and Kunmanara Donald of Tangentyere Artists, came together to create Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling, an animated short film telling their story of the Hermannsburg Choir and Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir through art, song and memory.

The film has travelled around the world, winning Best Australian Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival, as well as Best Animation and the Rising Talent Award for Screenwriting at the Sydney Film Festival.

The Hermannsburg choir’s story reaches back to the late 1800s, when Lutheran missionaries and the artists’ ancestors translated German hymns into Western Aranda, beginning a musical tradition that has continued across generations.

Now, the award-winning film is expanding into a major touring exhibition across Australia, bringing together film, paintings, ceramics and archival material from the Lutheran Archives. The exhibition will launch at Araluen Art Centre in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in June 2027 before travelling to major institutions in every state and territory. Find out more about it here.

We need your help to bring it to life.

Your gift will help fund the exhibition build and support the artists to create new work, so this powerful story of faith, culture, music and community can travel from Mparntwe/Alice Springs to audiences across Australia.

Help the choir’s story travel further. Give generously today. All donations above $2 are tax deductible.