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ANTaR Qld Activities and other News 12-05-2010
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*Trivia Night*
Reconciliation Week is coming up and there of heaps of things you can get involved with. You’ll find details of some of these below.
ANTaR Qld will be holding its annual Trivia Night on 3 June. The night will be hosted by trivia extraordinaire, Andrew McMicking, who you may know from such events as the great ANTaR Trivia Night of 2009! ;-) This year’s trivia night is raising funds for the Project 10% Campaign.
The Irish Club, Elizabeth Street, the City (opp. The Wintergarden)
• 6.30 for 7pm start. 9pm finish.
• Teams of 6-8 people invited. (Or just come along by yourself and we’ll place you at a team.)
• $15 entry fee per person or $10 concession. Payable on the night.
• 6 rounds of 10 general knowledge questions, plus 4 ‘Who Am I’s’. Prize pack for top two teams plus lucky door and raffle.
• Meals available from upstairs bistro. Come early and have dinner before the Trivia Night if you wish.
It will be a fun night and a great way to get to meet the management committee and other members.
Please RSVP for the Trivia Night:
Via the office (3844 9800) or off...@antarqld.org.au
Via Andrew (0439 554 072) or amcmi...@bigpond.com
Have a great week!
Dianna
new watch The Ampilatwatja Walkoff vs. The Intervention
Support the Brisbane bus to Alice Springs for the "4 Days in July" National Aboriginal Convergence!
Brisbane Premiere Screening... The Ampilatwatja Walkoff vs. The Intervention
A film by Actively Radical TV
Doors open at 6pm, Friday May 14th
TLC Building
16 Peel St, South Brisbane
With speakers including: Gwen Taylor, QLD Council of Unions Indigenous Officer and speakers on the "4 Day in July" convergence.
ABOUT THE FILM: In July 2009, the Alyawarr people from Ampilatwatja, three hours' north-west of Alice Springs, walked off their community and set up a protest camp on their traditional homelands. They have remained there ever since, protesting against the racist measures of the Northern Territory Intervention — welfare quarantining and the basics 'ration' card, government seizure of Aboriginal land, suspension of the RDA and other paternalistic policies — and vow they will not return until the laws are repealed and the traditional owners right's are restored. This film tells the story of the building of the protest house, with union support, to show the governments it does not take more than two years to build one house let alone the housing that was promised, not delivered, by the Intervention. It features interviews with unionists from the CFMEU, AMWU, MUA, LHMU & AWU, Unions NT and the ACTU and activists that worked together on the project. This project saw the beginning of the movement that has called for 'Four Days in July', a national convergence in Alice to discuss ending the intervention and restoring Indigenous workers rights.
Tickets $7 Concession, $12 Full waged
Cheap dinner, drinks available
Info, call Dom: 0431 638 772
new listen Sorry Day Yarning Circle
Yarning Circle
9.30am for 10am, Saturday 15th May
Teralba Park
Cnr Osborne Road/Pullen Road,
Everton Park
(entry from Pullen Road)
Families who would like their children to know more about Sorry Day are invited to bring them along to listen and learn from Aboriginal Elders about what makes Teralba Park a special place for us all.
Free morning tea sponsored by Sarina Russo Mitchelton
Please bring a chairs or a rug for your family
More info:
Teralba Park Commemorative Site Support Group
Aunty Amy Atkins 0424 743483
Mariya Coblenz magpi...@ihug.com.au
new listen Concert
Aunty Delmai Barton presents a concert
St. John’s Cathedral
7pm, Saturday, 15th May
This concert by the Brisbane Regional Youth Orchestra will feature the Numberlie Dancers, didgeridoo players and the Aboriginal Centre Performing Arts Choir.
Tickets are $5.00.
Phone John Cameron at 3397-1508 for more information.
Proceeds will support the orchestra as they represent Queensland at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China.
new listen Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture 2010
Dr Ros Kidd - ‘One of the Great Scandals of Australia’s History: Aboriginal Labour in 20th Century Queensland’
5.30pm Thurs 20th May
Level 2 TLC Building
16 Peel St
South Brisbane
free admission
refreshments available
Ros Kidd was awarded a doctorate by Griffith University in 1994 for her groundbreaking research into government control of Aboriginal people in Queensland between 1840 and 1988. She has published four books: The Way We Civilise; Black Lives, Government Lies; Trustees on Trial; and Hard Labour, Stolen Wages. She has assisted Native Title claimants with historical research reports, and works with Aboriginal people in pursuit of justice from the government for illegally underpaid wages and lost savings.
new listen Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
Dr Zohl dé Ishtar from the Kapululangu Aboriginal Women’s Law and Culture Centre.
5.30pm for 6pm, Friday, 21st May
Kurilpa Hall
174 Boundary St
West End
Author and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Dr Zohl dé Ishtar is internationally renowned for her work with Indigenous Australian and Pacific women over the past 25 years. Since 1999 Zohl has lived and worked with the Aboriginal Women Elders in Balgo community, Western Australia. She assisted them to establish the Kapululangu Women’s Law and Culture Centre— one of Australia’s most remote women’s centres and a flourishing and vibrant provider of Aboriginal Women’s Law and Culture in the south-east Kimberley.
This is a rare opportunity to hear Zohl speak about the Kapululangu Elders’ efforts to protect and keep alive their women’s knowledge and cultural practices, and to build cultural resilience among their families and community. Learn about how you can partner with these remarkable women to close the gap between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous relations.
Participants: All are welcome!
Catering: Light refreshments may be purchased.
Donations: Gratefully received all proceeds go to the Kapululangu Aboriginal Women’s Association.
Website: www.kapululangu.org
RSVP preferred: Contact Chris Henderson bi...@bigpond.com 0437 327890
new participate Sorry Day Plaque Sites
On 26th May 1997 the Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families was tabled in Federal Parliament. The Bringing Them Home Report, revealed the extent of forced removal policies, which went on for 150 years into the early 1980s. The Report revealed the devastating effects of these policies in terms of spiritual, emotional and physical trauma, as a direct result from the broken connection to traditional land, culture and language, the separation of families and the effect of these on parenting skills. It also revealed the trans-generational impact and damaging effects that these forced child removals continue to have on the Indigenous families and communities today.
Commemoration Plaques were established in 1998 by Council. The plaques acknowledge the location of children’s homes, where children were housed after being taken from their families as part of the removal and separation policies. Ceremonies will be held at each of the plaque sites during the week.
King George Square, Brisbane
5.30pm, Sunday, 23rd May – Sorry Week Opening Ceremony
10.30am, Wednesday 26th May – Lord Mayor’s Sorry Day Dedication
Orleigh Park, West End
cnr. Hill End Tce & Forbes St
West End, Brisbane
7am, Saturday, 30th May
Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation
Sherwood Arboretum, Sherwood
Joseph St entrance
Sherwood, Brisbane
7am, Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Benarrawa Community Development Association
Teralba Park, Grovely/Everton Park
Pullen Rd.
Grovely
7am, Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Teralba Park Commemorative Site Support Group
More info: Karen Hall 0433 030 580
Breakwater Park, Wynnum
Waterloo Esplanade
Wynnum, Brisbane
11am-1.30pm, Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Kalinga Park, Clayfield
Noonga Reconciliation Group and Dare to Lead invite you to join them in commemorating National Sorry Day
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Morning tea will be served from 10.00am
Ceremony will commence at 10.30am
“Stolen Generations Memorial Site” Kalinga Park
Enter via Park Avenue, Clayfield. Drive through gates to parking area. Follow walking path to the left past playground, to memorial site.
Sorry: Still Living On Borrowed Time!
In 2010 the National Sorry Day Committee feels that there is a need to remind the government that very little progress has made toward the goal of implementing all of the recommendations from the Bringing Them Home report. Time is running out. The majority of Stolen Generation survivors are over the age of 45, they are already grandparents and great grandparents who are living on ‘borrowed time’ while they wait for justice, reparations and compensation.
Please RSVP by May 19 so that we can organise catering for the day. Bev Hickey Phone: 3256 7430 Email: bmhi...@bigpond.com
For more Reconciliation Week events, have a look at Reconciliation Week
participate Kaleidoscope 2010
The Ethnic Communities Council of Logan Inc, invites you and your colleagues to join us for the Multicultural Festival at Croydon Road, Woodridge (opposite the train station) which will be held on Sunday 16th May 2010 from 7.45am to 1.00pm. The Kaleidoscope Street Festival is in its 5th year of Celebration with dancing, singing, international foods ,exotic green vegetable, fresh fruit direct from farm from more than 170 ethnic backgrounds now living in Logan.
view Now – 16 May Torres Strait Photo exhibition
A powerful photographic exhibition from the Torres Strait illuminated with recollections of the days before and after the 1967 Referendum.
Bipotaim: Stories from the Torres Strait
The Studio, level 1
State Library of Queensland
Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank
Free exhibition, open daily 10am-5pm
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on
For more news and information ANTaR recommends:
WGAR News ( Working Group for Aboriginal Rights) www.wgar.info
National Indigenous Times www.nit.com.au/default.aspx
The Little Red Yellow Black Site http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au
The Federation Press www.federationpress.com.au
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ANTaR Qld
Office 10, 25-27 Cordelia Street
South Brisbane Qld 4101
Phone/Fax (07) 3844 9800
We acknowledge the Turrubal, Jagera and Yuggera people,
traditional owners of the land on which Brisbane is situated.
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