Image: Fiona Lovelock was the special guest speaker at the 2022 NAIDOC Acknowledgement Ceremony.
NAIDOC Week is usually held in the first week of July and will run from 2-9 July. The theme for this year’s event is For Our Elders and honours the prominent role Elders have played, and continues to play, in families and communities across every generation.
UNE will host or partake in a number of events in Armidale and beyond.
Armidale events
UNE NAIDOC Acknowledgement Ceremony
Join us on Monday 3 July, from 11am at the Oorala Aboriginal Centre in honour of NAIDOC Week. Special guest speaker is active community member and Local Elder of the Year, Rose Lovelock, from the Armidale Regional Cultural Centre & Keeping Place.
Following the NAIDOC Acknowledgement Ceremony, guests are invited to join us in the Booloominbah Dining Room for a warm lunch of soup and damper. Local musician Anthony Green will perform for our Elders. From 12pm Monday, 3 July.
A NAIDOC Fair will be held on Wednesday, 5 July, from 11am – 4pm in the Lazenby Foyer and the Northern Courtyard. The Fair will include a smoking ceremony, First Nations workshops, stalls as well as a free lunch. All welcome!
On Thursday 6 July at 6:50pm Belgrave Cinema will screen New Boy. Set in 1940s Australia, the film depicts the mesmeric story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Blanchett). The new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
NAIDOC activities elsewhere
UNE researchers have partnered with the Elders and Aboriginal community members of Inverell and Tingha to create a collection of stories and artwork that showcase the resilience, strength and hope after the devastation of the Black Summer bushfires. These stories will form part of the line up of activities to celebrate NAIDOC Week on Tuesday 4 July from 9am – 1pm at the BTTCS Building, 13986 Guyra Road, Tingha. All welcome.
UNE Tamworth participating in ‘Tamworth Family Fun Day’
Held on Friday 7 July from 11am-2pm in Bicentennial Park, Tamworth
UNE Sydney participating in the City of Paramatta Burramatta NAIDOC Day
Burramatta NAIDOC Day will be held on Saturday 8 July from 10am-4pm at The Crescent, Parramatta Park and features a festival with music, workshops, stalls, and fun for the whole family.