SURVIVAL DAY: Things to do, places to go

Canberra 

Rally: Stand up & be counted on Sovereignty Day. 

Invitation to the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. 

For more info visit Sovereignty Day.

Melbourne

Festival: Share the Spirit Festival 2012. Celebrating Survival Day. 

Indigenous music, dance and culture as part of Melbourne’s official Survival Day celebrations. 1-7pm. 

Treasury Gardens.

Festival: 2012 Belgrave Survival Day. 

This event acknowledges the indigenous perspective on the 230 years of European occupation of Australia, and celebrates the survival of the oldest living culture on the globe through live music, storytelling, traditional dance and craft. 

Speakers will include

• Elder Aunty Dot Peters from Healesville, 
• Gary Presland and Rodney Augustine from the Save the Kimberley campaign. 

Featuring

• Yung Warriors and Lou Bennett; 
• traditional stories by Gnarnayarrahe Waitairie and the Jindi Worobak Dance Troupe; 
• Wurundjeri elders will be undertaking a smoking ceremony. 

12 noon-4pm. Borthwick Park (next to the Belgrave Pool), Benson St, Belgrave.

Always Was Always Will Be Aboriginal Land - Australia Day, Survival Day 2012

Top picture from NITV Ignite

Bottom picture from Whenua Fenua Enua Vanua

Max Dulumunmun Harrison and My People's Dreaming. Uncle Max is doing it again, still.

Uncle Max is doing it again.

If you live somewhere in that triangle

between Canberra, the South Coast and Sydney

and you are interested in matters Aboriginal and indigenous life and style,

you are bound to come across Uncle Max.

Missed out on that opportunity so far?

Now is your chance.

Get ye hither and fill in the booking form.

Yes, NOW!

Postcolonial Theology Network

Have just received an invitation via Helen Mary Hill - former political staffer, now academic, writer, East Timor advocate and activist - to join the Postcolonial Theology Network on Facebook.  In case this sounds like heady stuff, Networkers, in simple terms it is about reaction to colonialism and colonisation.

People might be tempted to think in terms of Africa and Asia and so on where former Empires invaded parts of the world and subjugated the local population.  Oops!  Wait a minute, isn't that what happened in Australia?  Oh yes, but the British went away.  Did they?  In Australia, we tend to think that colonialism disappeared magically on the 1 January 1901 with Federation.  We don't look at ourselves critically to see that we have not left behind colonial attitudes, Great White Father patronage and arrogance either within our own nation or in relationship with others - and I think particularly of our attitude toward the Pacific Island nations in this regard.

So I have signed up and accepted Helen Mary's invitation.  Hopefully, I will learn a lot.  Hopefully, I can make some contribution.  Hope to meet you there, Networkers.

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