NAIDOC Week 2008
Advance Australia Fair
State Library of Western Australia Events
Phone 9427 3202

  Tuesday, 8th July

• Wild About Music Workshop
  The State Library of WA is wild about our WA Indigenous music heritage, come and play with ….

  Wednesday, 9th July

• Yelakitj Moort Nyungar Family StoryTime
  Story telling has always been a vital part of the Nyungar culture. Stories are told to teach lessons, give warning and keep Nyungar history alive. Come and here Nyungar Elder Neville Collard, tell some of the stories of the Ballardong Peoples of the Swan River. Suitable for family groups.. young and old.
  

• Family Tour of Indigenous Collections
  A key role of the State Library of Western Australia’s is to reflect our Western Australian cultural heritage – come on this tour for a preview of some of our Indigenous collections and the stories they tell.
  

• Wednesday Matinee – The Quest of Jimmy Pike
  This 1990 film by Ronin Films tells the story of Jimmy Pike, one of Australia’s and the world’s most loved Indigenous painters, walking out of the Great Sandy Desert when he was 14 and his subsequent fame as a painter. The script is written by June Lowe, long term partner of Jimmy Pike.
  

• Celebrating the Shift in Indigenous Education from the 20th to 21st Century By Simon Forest, WA Educator
  
  After legislation in the 1950s Aboriginal children in Western Australia had (at least under law) regular access to schools. Prior to that time Aboriginal children were schooled on missions or reserves with access to government schools only be gained if there was no objection by the local non-Aboriginal community.
  
  Come and hear Simon Forrest, a Western Australian delegate to the “World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education” to be held in Canberra in December 2008 present a pictorial display and stories about the major changes in education of Aboriginal peoples in WA and talk about the conference and this years theme – “Respecting Tradition, Shaping the Future”.
  

  Friday, 11th July

• Family Tour of Indigenous Collections
  A key role of the State Library of Western Australia’s is to reflect our Western Australian cultural heritage – come on this tour for a preview of some of our Indigenous collections and the stories they tell.
  

   

  Saturday, 12th July

• Reconciliation Information Stall
  Reconciliation groups have worked over many years to build a recognition of the injustices experienced by Aboriginal people – come and meet the members of the Northern Suburbs Reconciliation Group to hear about their work.
  

• Celebrating Indigenous Culture Concert
  The State Library of WA will be holding a concert to celebrate our Western Australian Indigenous cultural heritage and to choose a prize winner from our Indigenous School Tours program NAIDOC Week Invitation Artwork competition.
  Join us for traditional indigenous dance and contemporary Indigenous rock and roll.