Please note, while we are providing an event programme, this programme can only be an outline. You will be experiencing the goorie way of knowledge sharing. As all good storytellers and teachers know, the teller responds in a living way to the immediate needs of the moment and to a sense of where the listeners are. Open yourself to new experiences and flow …
| Friday 25 | 9.00 - 11.00 Welcome; Ngambri Elder Introduction to Yarning Circle Protocol | 11.00 - 11.15 Tea Break | 11:15 – 1:15 Arrernte & Kaytetye: Central Australia’s Interconnected law - Desert law skin system | 1:15 – 2:15 Lunch | 2:15 – 4:15 Education yarning cross cultural 'healing teaching' and learning - across generations | 4:15 – 4:30 Tea Break | 4:30 – 6:00 Arabunna Nation, Lake Eyre, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott: my country, my role, the destruction to sacred sites; lack of consultation | 7:00 – 9:00 Bundjalung Elder, Uncle Lewis Walker Storytelling, Music |
| Saturday 26 | SURVIVAL DAY Rally and March | Assembling at Garema Place, Canberra City from 9.00 am (due to heat) | discussions on topics like black deaths in custody, brutalisation of black youth in detention | and mining corporations on sacred sites, etc. | followed by a march across Commonwealth Bridge | to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of Old Parliment House | where a smoking ceremony will take place | |
| Sunday 27 | 9:00 – 11:00 Worimi, Dale Kerwin, Aqua Nullius | 11.00 - 11.15 Tea Break | 11:15 – 1:15 Arrernte & Kaytetye Women and Men; Central Australia’s Interconnected law - Desert law skin system | 1.15 - 2.15 Lunch | 2:15 – 4:15 Urlpmerre Arenye, Anyume Kemarre - Wise Man Lightning Child - Uncle John & Mpetyane - Aunty Mali Cavanagh | 4.15 - 4.30 Tea Break | 4:30 – 6:00 Wandianwanderian Murramurrang Tomikin Uncle Paul Jrumpinjinbah Mcleod | 7.00 - 9.00 Storytelling, Music |
| Monday 28 | 9:00 – 11:00 Arrernte Elder, Uncle Pelterre Chris Tomlins | Tea break | 11:15 – 1:15 Arabunna Nation, Lake Eyre, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, About the structure of my old people of the Lake Eyre area | Lunch | 2:15 – 4:15 Urlpmerre Arenye, Mpetyane - Aunty Mali Cavanagh: Njorda – A Kin and Skin Workshop, with intro to Arrernte and bush medicine making | Tea Break | 4:30 – 6.00 Namidge Ngambri Elder Shane Mortimer, Allodial Title | 7.00 – 9.00 Seeds and Actions Closing yarning |
