The Belle Flowers - Choir
Are an Indigenious Choir, providing a platform to share and maintain certain Indigenous languages. Their Choir Director is Aunty Ruth Ghee. A Torres Strait (Mer), South Sea (Ambrum) Islands and Aboriginal (Kabi Kabi) woman, Ruth has been involved in various forms and expressions within the performing arts, music and entertainment industry.
In 2005 she was part of the creative development team of the AWGIE award winning 'Kese Solwata' Children's Theatre Production which premiered at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre 2006 Out of the Box Festival, then toured throughout the Torres Strait Islands performing at schools.
Ruth has completed a Bachelor of Arts (Language and Linguistics) in 2011 and aims to revive maintain and preserve Australian Indigenous languages, mainly her father's (Meriam Mir) and mother’s (Kabi Kabi) languages through creative practice. Currently she is involved in directing local community choirs such 'Voices for the Light', 'Purli Shellz Community Choir' and 'The Belle Flowers'.
