Pride on display
Traditional song, dance, games and food were part of an elders social event celebrating Naidoc Week. About 300 people attended the annual get-together at Blue Care’s Hollingsworth Elders Village yesterday. UnitingCare Queensland chief executive Anne Cross said it was the perfect way to celebrate the contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had made to Australia’s history and how they help to shape its future.
TRADITIONAL song, dance, games and food were part of an elders’ social event celebrating Naidoc Week.
About 300 people attended the annual get-together at Blue Care’s Hollingsworth Elders Village yesterday.
UnitingCare Queensland chief executive Anne Cross said it was the perfect way to celebrate the contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had made to Australia’s history and how they helped shape its future.
Yesterday’s event also included a traditional Torres Strait Islander feasting ceremony called a Kup-Murri.
“The 2017 theme, Our Languages Matter, aims to celebrate the unique and essential role indigenous languages play in cultural identity, linking people to their land and water, and in the transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, spirituality and rites, through story and song,” Ms Cross said.
There are plenty more Naidoc week events to come.
Tomorrow there will be a “come and try” multi-sports day between 9am and midday, and then 1pm and 3pm at Shang Park in Mooroobool.
While the event is free, registrations are essential. And children under 11 years must be registered and have an adult present at all times.