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Dear Reconciliationist,
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It's nearly Easter and the annual Byron Bay Bluesfest is on again and this year's lineup includes some fantastic Indigenous talent including Geoffrey Gurumul Yunupingu, Leah Flanagan, Saltwater Band and Frank Yamma. Oh and that Bob Dylan bloke. If you are one of the lucky people heading over make sure you search out Sisters for Reconciliation (Nothern Rivers) who are once again holding a stall to promote reconciliation in the region.
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With Reconciliation Week about 7 weeks away, now is the perfect time to start planning what you and your networks can do for Reconciliation Week. Whether organising your own film screening, public meeting or discussion, or arranging a planned visit to an event or exhibition. Best part is we'd love to help! You can contact us in the office and we'd love to offer suggestions, hear what you have planned, and help publicise your activity through our website. Reconciliation Australia also have resources available, and they can post it right to your door.
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| Reconciliation Week is a great opportunity to create a space where people can be comfortable to share stories and discuss ideas. This issue we've jam packed in bucket full of events, your last chance to enter our Schools Reconciliation Challenge, some great resources... basically a whole bunch of ways you can get involved in the Reconciliation movement. |
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| NSW Reconciliation Council team! |
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Schools Reconciliation Challenge |
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QUICK this is your last chance to enter the NSWRC's Schools Reconciliation Challenge!
There's been a steady stream of entries coming in from all over the State including Broken Hill, Tweed, Campbelltown, and also Ivanhoe.
In the office we've been so impressed by the way students and obviously their teachers have engaged with the ideas around reconciliation and 'You, Me, Us'. The entries show an amazing ability to grapple quite complex ideas and the talent turn that into a beautiful artwork.
Entries close April 29th. So quickly, get your artworks in!
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It happens every year in December, all of a sudden, your diaries full and there's so many things you want to get to. That's a little bit how it feels like at the moment with so many great events coming through our inboxes as we ramp up to Reconciliation Week.
A couple of highlights during the next few weeks include two acclaimed Indigenous films, Mad Bastards and Murundak: Songs of Freedom are rolling out their touring schedules around the country including a couple of dates in NSW.
Small Grants recipients Blue Mountains People for Reconciliation have organised and run a number of workshops with local Aboriginal artists to facilitate entries in the Schools Reconciliation Challenge. To show off this great work they're holding and Exhibition Saturday April 30th.
Speaking of exhibitions, the NSW State Library is holding a fantastic one called Carved Trees. Highlighting the ceremoniously carved trees by the Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi nations of Western NSW, the collection is on display until the 26th of June.
To find out more and to register your Reconciliation Week event
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| Remembering Indigenous Diggers for ANZAC Day 2011 |
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In the midst of the chocolate binge, also known as Easter, is ANZAC Day. On the Monday April 25th you are invited to join Indigenous Servicewomen and Men and their families for a commemorative ceremony and march starting at Redfern Community Centre.
The focus for this years proceedings is on the Aboriginal women. Those who served in the armed forces and those who stayed at home and held families, business, returned soldiers, and communities together.
This ANZAC Day we encourage you to take a moment to recognise the truly unsung heroes of Australia's military history.
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Schools Reconciliation Challenge
Events, Events and more Events
Remembering Indigenous Diggers this ANZAC Day
Make more cyber-friendships through facebook and Twitter.
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Books Behind Bars
The start of the month marked 20 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
In their latest media release, the NSW Aboriginal Land Council have said current incarceration rates particularly for Indigenous youth is unacceptable. They have also supported more books and educational material in prisons.
NSWRC are going to contribute to providing young Indigenous people with alternatives from Juvenile Justice Centres as part of this years Tuned In! More on that soon.
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Aboriginal Sydney: A Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present
This book has been researched and produced by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). After consulting with several major New South Wales Aboriginal organizations and land councils AIATSIS have produced not only a guide to Sydney but also an alternative social history told through 50 places of significance to the city’s Indigenous people. The various sites and their accompanying stories and photographs about Sydney’s past are a celebration of the living Aboriginal culture of the present.
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4-May-2011
Free Hip Hop Music Workshop
Redfern Community Centre will play host to workshop with local Hip Hop artist Tjimba Possum burns, and a rapper from Melbourne's Yung Warriors. The workshop will be filmed as part of a documentary about legendary Brazilian musician and political activist Gilberto Gil during his travels in Brazil, South Africa and Australia.
For the flyer and more info
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