City Of Sydney documents have revealed We Are Warriors as the creative directors for Calling Country during the NYE2023 & NYE2024 editions with an option to extend to the NYE2025 edition.
We Are Warriors includes Kobie Dee who performed My Home, My Country during the Calling Country live performance last year with Akala Newman & the Brolga Dance Academy.
Calling Country involves 3 separate segments – a Welcome To Country, fireworks & a live performance. All feature a Sydney Harbour Bridge light & pylon projection show. The live performance goes for 3 minutes at 9:08pm & concludes with the presentation of a message stick to the City Of Sydney Lord Mayor. The Welcome To Country opens the show at 8:57pm with a 3-minute televised video while the fireworks go for 8 minutes from 9pm from 4 barges on Sydney Harbour & the catwalk of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The fireworks & live performance are all set to an original soundtrack.
For the 1st time this year, Calling Country Fireworks will officially permanently replace the Family Fireworks at 9pm with the latter have been cancelled or temporarily replaced with Welcome To/Calling Country Fireworks since NYE2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We Are Warriors is an Indigenous social enterprise operating as profit for purpose.
Founded by Indigenous Australian rapper Nooky, the platform is dedicated to celebrating Blak excellence and empowering Indigenous youth.
Here in Australia, a lack of representation means a lack of role models for young Mob to look up to.
We’re here to change that.
We’re putting a spotlight on Indigenous role models, elevating their success stories and showing the next generation there are no limits. We want to help these kids see what Blak excellence and strong leadership look like, to inspire them to realise their own greatness.From birth, the odds are stacked against Indigenous kids. In a country where First Nations people make up less than 5% of the population, Indigenous youth account for 80% of all 10-year-olds behind bars.
Systemic racism sees them taken away from their families and put in detention centres at 22 times the rate of non-Indigenous kids. This is a hard reality to grow up with. So where do our young Mob go to feel inspired?Having faced his own uncomfortable truths, We Are Warriors founder Nooky recognised the need to create a platform to give our Mob something to aspire to, to unlock their own Warrior spirit and drive positive change.
‘We Are Warriors’ Website
Working with our Warriors to share their stories of resistance and resilience shows the young ones they’ve got options. In Australia, this kind of platform hasn’t existed before. Together, we’re building a movement, and we want to energise everyone to be a part of it.
This is just the beginning.
We Are Warriors was appointed creative directors of Calling Country of Sydney NYE2023, 2024 & maybe 2025 exactly 1 month before (15/09/2023) the Referendum on Indigenous Recognition through a Voice to Federal Parliament/Government (15/10/2023), which was voted down nationally & in all the states of Australia including New South Wales.
Sydney Spectaculars 