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Stylin’ Up Festival
Brisbane’s number one Indigenous youth, dance and cultural festival Stylin’ Up is back this month with a swag of emerging artists to showcase, plenty of youth workshops and plenty of dancing, rapping and breakin’, locking and poppin’ to get the crowds going. Each year more than 15,000 people gather to celebrate the vibrancy of community […]
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Message Sticks screening special free films
Message Sticks is back on at the Sydney Opera House from March 19 to 24. There’s a range of interesting dance, music, talks, storytelling and exhibitions, as well as ‘free films’ screenings in the playhouse venue. On Saturday, 23 March, see three ground-breaking documentaries that tell of Indigenous struggle, resilience and survival: Croker Island Exodus, Coniston […]
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The Apology – Jeremy Donovan
On the morning of ‘The Apology 5 Years On’ concert held at Federation Lawn in Canberra, February 13, 2013, The Healing Foundation Champion, Jeremy Donovan, talks about his personal healing journey and the significance of Kevin Rudd’s apology for his own family. [tubepress video=”qBkTnfZpHng”]
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The Apology – Jasmine, Florence Onus
Florence and Jasmine Onus from The Healing Foundation talk about the ongoing significance of Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations, as well as the work of The Healing Foundation in supporting Stolen Generations members and their families in their healing journeys. [tubepress video=”e8A1ahnn-qc”]
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The Apology 5 Years On – Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd speaks to the crowd at the 5 year anniversary celebrations of the Apology to the Stolen Generations in Canberra. [tubepress video=”GFVSzF6U220″]
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Archie Roach headlines The Apology
Legendary Aboriginal singer and songwriter Archie Roach will headline the “The Apology – Five Years On – Heal our Past, Build Our Future” free concert to be held on the lawns in front of Parliament House, Canberra on 13 February, 2013. The concert is hosted by the Healing Foundation and celebrates the fifth anniversary of […]
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The Apology, 5 years on
A concert featuring the Black Arm Band will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the historic Apology to the Stolen Generations on 13 February on the lawns of Federation Mall, Parliament House. The free concert features an amazing line up of award-winning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians, including Microwave Jenny and hip hop sensations The […]
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Saltwater Freshwater Festival
Some major Indigenous talent is lining up to play at the 2013 Saltwater Freshwater Festival in Taree on 26 January, including the legendary band Coloured Stone, hip-hop favourites The Last Kinection and crowd-pleasers The Medics. Saltwater Freshwater is the largest Aboriginal cultural event on the Mid North Coast – where the saltwater and freshwater meet. […]
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Yabun Festival 2013
Red Ochre award-winning performer and Western Arrernte man Warren H Williams and Pitjantjatjara singer-songwriter Frank Yamma will headline this year’s Yabun Festival on Saturday, 26 January in Victoria Park, Sydney. The legendary Archie Roach will also be playing, along with an all-star choir, performing songs from his latest album Into the Bloodstream. Yabun is also […]
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Mobfest returns
Mobfest is a two-day festival where music based education takes centre stage and students from Indigenous remote communities get the opportunity to share their achievements with other schools, their families and their peers. Mobfest is run by Music Outback. It is a travelling festival that is held each year at a central participating school in […]
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Getting the message across
The popular Message Sticks Festival is on again at the Sydney Opera House from 27 March until 1 April. This year the festival is broadening to include music, talks, dance, storytelling and exhibitions as well as its customary film screenings. Popular media personality and creative producer, Rhoda Roberts, is the Artistic Director of Message Sticks […]
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Celebrating a Return to Country
530km west of Alice Springs, right alongside the Northern Territory and Western Australian border, is the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore, or Walungurru, as it’s known by local people in Pintupi language. Before the settlement’s establishment in 1981, many of Kintore’s residents were living in the community of Papunya, having been forcibly moved from their […]
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Celebrate Yabun on January 26
Koori Radio 93.7FM proudly invites Sydney and Australia to celebrate the survival of Aboriginal cultures at the Yabun Festival in Victoria Park on 26 January 2011. Now in its ninth year, Yabun is Australia’s premiere one-day festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture presenting the best in music, dance, sport and so much more. […]
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Archie Roach and Sinead O’Connor perform in Melbourne
Melbourne Festival announces very special world premiere performances with several of the Seven Songs to Leave Behind artists showcasing some brand new songs, alongside their well known hits and those of other iconic performers.
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National Youth Week gets black and deadly
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are stepping up and making their mark on Australia’s week-long celebration of all things youth – National Youth Week. Run by youth, for youth, it has been planned in part by our very own Indigenous representative, Lucy Deemal. “Mid-last year the volunteer role of Indigenous Representative on the […]
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Art from the heart
Artworks by 19 Indigenous inmates in Victoria were a highlight of Melbourne’s premier Indigenous arts festival, Yalukit Willam Ngargee, as part of the St Kilda Festival. The exhibition Confined II, hosted at the St Kilda Town Hall Gallery, was a major event at Yalukit Willam Ngargee (meaning People, Place, Gathering), which celebrates Boon Wurrung Country […]
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