Our evolving first choir in Broome “the entrance to The Kimberley”, has just made an excellent debut taking part in the second Shorebird Quest. They sing the fishing song...wirli-wirlii-ngan ("we're going fishing").

The Quest is easily regarded as a magnificent musical Opera on the Broome mudflats at an extreme Kimberley low tide fronting Town Beach, Roebuck Bay.

It commemorates the massive annual and dangerous shorebird migration from Siberia to Broome and back. Curtis the Curlew is the star of this Quest as he hatches overseen by his father on the Siberian tundra.

Curtis is just one of the giant shorebird puppets that amass on the sand-flat about to take flight from the arctic tundra to Broome. The performance of puppetry, song, and dance under the aegis of Theatre Kimberley (artistic director, Meredith Bell and former artistic director, Gwen Knox). The giant puppets were made through a series of community workshops, facilitated by expert puppeteers and theatre-makers Karen Hethey, and Bernadette Trench –Thiedeman.

The performance of puppetry, storytelling and dance has been co-written with Parks and Wildlife Service, local indigenous Yawuru Rangers and Yawuru Country Managers.

Our choir mistress, Jaime Jackett , was co-composer and musical director.