NAIDOC Week 2009 5 to 12 July
NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee.
NAIDOC is a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and an opportunity to recognise the contributions of Indigenous Australians in various fields.
The national theme for this year’s NAIDOC Week celebrations is Honouring Our Elders, Nurturing Our Youth. The theme encourages our communities to acknowledge the status of our Elders as leaders and role models for our youth.
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Australian Aboriginal Flag
The Australian Aboriginal flag was originally designed as a protest flag for the land rights movement of Indigenous Australians but has since become a symbol of the Aboriginal people of Australia.
The flag is a yellow disc on a horizontally divided field of black and red.
It was designed in 1971 by Harold Thomas, an Aboriginal artist descended from the Luritja of Central Australia. (more…)
Indigenous Film Festival 10th Anniversary at Sydney Opera House
Enjoy 7 world premieres of 7 Short Films by 7 new Australian directors including directorial debuts by Deborah Mailman and Leah Purcell.
FREE public screenings, FREE live music,and a FREE photographic art exhibition. You will also have an opportunity to meet and talk with filmmakers after each session.
Sydney Opera House is proud to present the 10th Message Sticks Festival, a program of film and performance celebrating the creativity of indigenous artists from Australia and overseas. Through our public and performance programmes, we seek to give a range of artists and performers a place at Sydney Opera House in which to speak to the wider community.
A significant feature of this festival is that the works must be by indigenous artists and not simply about indigenous issues. The films and shorts in this years festival showcase excellence in performance and filmmaking, and demonstrate Sydney Opera Houses longstanding commitment to the process of reconciliation. I invite you to experience these culturally significant works that will resonate with indigenous and non indigenous audiences alike.
Richard Evans CEO, Sydney Opera House