Events

Previous Events are listed on this PDF document.

NOTICES as at July 2009

Saturday 4 July
Showcase Exhibition, Awards and Community Day
11-3pm Billabong Aboriginal Development Corporation
158 Stockdill Drive, Holt.  Works include Performance, Screenprints, Wood-block prints, Lino-cuts, Digital Stories, Photomedia, Ceramics and Glass.  Free event
Contact: Linda Vincent 6278 4799 or linda.vincent@billabong.org.au

7pm to late NAIDOC Ball and 2009 NAIDOC Awards
Dress evening wear.  Tickets $45 (or $40 if booked table of 10)
Light supper and entertainment included.
Deakin Sports Club, Grosse Street, Deakin
Contacts: 6207 0555, 0405 480 432; 0414 917 740, 0458 598 254.

Sunday 5 July - NAIDOC Opening Ceremony & Family Day
Boomanulla Oval, Goyder Street, Narrabunda
Free BBQ lunch

Sunday 6 July - Chief Minister's NAIDOC Week Flag Raising Ceremony
11am at fountain outside ACT Legislative Assembly, London Ct, City
Refreshments at level 2, Theo Notatas Multicultural Centre,
180 London Circt. City . No cost.

Tuesday 7 July - Launch of Wagara Indigenous Theatre ACT
7pm for 7.30pm. Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Reed Street, Greenway
Free event - preview of Wagara's first work
Letters from my mother
Contact: Jenni Kemarre Martiniello, 0423 629 470 or
contact@kemarrearts.com.au

Wednesday 8 July - Memorial Service to honour Australia's Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Personnel.  12 noon Service followed by light lunch
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Memorial (behind War Memorial)
RSVP PLEASE by Friday 26 June to assist catering
Contact: Jenny Maidment 6127 3009 or jennifer.maidment@defence.gov.au

Wednesday 8 July - Yurauna Centre Reaffirmation Reconciliation Statement
1 pm, Yurauna Centre, Block F Room 43, Reid CIT, Constitution Ave.
Free event - didgeridoo performance, bush tucker catering.
Contact 6207 3309

Friday 9 July - Aboriginal Hostels' Lunch
Music by Warren H. Williams, and Kuniya Dancers
Southern Cross Club, Woden. Tickets $37
Contact Teri Dalton 02 6212 2001or AHL: ahlmarketing@ahl.gov.au

Saturday 11 July
NAIDOC on the Peninsula at 11am to 3pm
Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies and
Forecourt and foyer of National Museum of Australia, Lawson Cres. Acton
Free event with entertainment, BBQ available, story telling
Annual didgeridoo competition
Over 30 market stalls (
including JoHACT - come and see us!)
Contact: Anna Johnstone 6261 4225 or anna.johnstone@aiatsis.gov.au

Where's your beanie been?
2pm at James Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Barton. Cost $15, including tea & biscuit. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
Gay Epstein & senior women from Ernabella talk about history of the
Beanie Festival and concept of relaxed reconciliation through making beanies.
Contact: 1800 020 068 or eventbooking@nga.gov.au

September 2009
The 2009 AIATSIS Natonal Indigenous Studies Conference: "Perspectives on Urban Life: Connections and Reconnections" 29 Sept - 1 October 2009. For more information see: www.aiatsis.gov.au
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION: register by 31 July for a reduced rate.