Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Services Reconciliation/Sorry Day Afternoon Tea
Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Services 35 McPherson Road, Mardi, New South Wales, AustraliaWelcome to Country, guest speaker, interactive painting plus refreshments and snacks.
Every year workplaces, schools, early learning services, community groups, reconciliation groups, and people right across the country host a whole range of activities and events during National Reconciliation Week (NRW).
Check out the events below and see how you can mark NRW at an event near you.
The dates for NRW are the same each year; 27 May to 3 June.
Please note: the events posted below are not the responsibility of Reconciliation Australia. If you have any questions regarding an event, please contact the organisers.
Welcome to Country, guest speaker, interactive painting plus refreshments and snacks.
Everyone is welcome to come along and celebrate National Reconciliation Week 2024.
Screening of the Wintjiri Wiru documentary and a Q&A afterwards
Film screening and awards ceremony for the Koorie Youth Flick Fest 2024 featuring short films from Bendigo and Central Victoria.
Intereach and Bendigo Library will screen The Sapphires as part of the Central Victorian Indigenous Film Festival.
The Central Victorian Indigenous Film Festival 2024 celebrates Reconciliation Week with film screenings and activities happening across Bendigo and region.
Learn traditional symbols, stories, language, colours and techniques used in Aboriginal art.
An alternative, digital projection by artist Nathaniel Stewart / oldmatee788 that celebrates our place, creativity and the interlink of our many cultures.
Join Gariwerd Wimmera Reconciliation Network and our special guest as we discuss reconciliation in a post referendum environment.
]Monday 27 May to Wednesday 29 May dusk to 11:00 pm
Speakers from three organisations discuss RAPs: how they were developed, what they have learnt, what they hope to achieve.
Come and play Marngrook
Marngrook, the beginning of Australian Football
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Paul Girrawah House has multiple First Nation ancestries from the South-East Canberra region, including the Ngambri-Ngurmal (Walgalu), Pajong (Gundungurra), Wallabollooa (Ngunnawal) and Erambie/Brungle (Wiradyuri) family groups.
Paul acknowledges his diverse First Nation history, he particularly identifies as a descendant of Onyong aka Jindoomang from Weereewaa (Lake George) and Henry ‘Black Harry’ Williams from Namadgi who were both multilingual, essentially Walgalu-Ngunnawal-Wiradjuri speaking warriors and Ngunnawal–Wallaballooa man William Lane aka ‘Billy the Bull’ - Murrjinille.
Paul was born at the old Canberra hospital in the centre of his ancestral country and strongly acknowledges his First Nation matriarch ancestors, in particular his mother Dr Aunty Matilda House-Williams and grandmother, Ms Pearl Simpson-Wedge.
Paul completed a Bachelor of Community Management from Macquarie University, and Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage and Management from CSU.
Paul provided the Welcome to Country for the 47th Opening of Federal Parliament in 2022. Paul is Board Director, Ngambri Local Aboriginal Land Council, Member Indigenous Reference Group, National Museum of Australia and Australian Government Voice Referendum Engagement Group.
Paul works on country with the ANU, First Nations Portfolio as a Senior Community Engagement Officer
Reconciliation Australia acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website contains images or names of people who have passed away.
