Wurundjeri Week
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Join us in celebrating Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung history, Culture, ancestors, language, significant places and attend some of the events below.Wednesday 12 August to Friday 14 August.
Please note: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Smoking Ceremony on Friday 14 August, 10am to 10:30am has been cancelled.
Storytime and the Kulin Seasons Lunchtime learning will go ahead as planned.
PROGRAM:
Wurundjeri Education Session – lunchtime learning
Join Chris and Sara from the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Corporation to learn about First Nations Culture, Country and Traditions through Traditional tools and objects.
Wednesday 12 August, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Event Space, narrm ngarrgu Library
Bookings essential
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Native Garden Education Session and Potter Museum Tour
Join Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung corporation at Kathleen Syme Library to learn more about native foods and their uses. After a yarn, join the educators at the Potter Museum of Art (Uni Melb) for a guided tour of Ngarn Wa'ngal: Art of Gum exhibit.
Wednesday 12 August, 3pm to 4pm
Starting at Kathleen Syme Library and finishing at the Potter Museum of Art (Uni Melb)
Bookings essential
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Wurundjeri Week Walk
Join a very meaningful and interesting walk, that asks you to connect deeply with the Greenline route and unlearn the dominant colonial narrative along the Birrarung. Better understand the ancestral flow of the Birrarung and the story of her ongoing colonial disruption, at the same time celebrating Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung culture and ecology.
“For thousands of years there was a rocky crossing place here, very similar to what we have at Dights Falls, which also had significance around gathering and ceremony and traveling and songlines”, Uncle Bill Nicholson.
Meet at Enterprize Park
Thursday 13 August, 3pm to 5pm
Route: Enterprize Park, Birrarung Marr Boardwalk, MCG
Bookings essential
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Aunty Gail and Bec’s Bubup Storytime at narrm ngarrgu
Join Aunty Gail Smith and Bec Axford for a very special storytime, spoken in Woi-wurrung language.
Friday 14 August, 10.30am to 11.30am
Bubup Wilam, narrm ngarrgu Library
No bookings required
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Kulin Seasons – lunchtime learning
Forget 4 seasons in a day. Did you know that narrm actually has 7 seasons every year?
Learn more about the Kulin Seasons, through an education session with the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Corporation.
Friday 14 August, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Event Space, narrm ngarrgu Library
Bookings essential
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Aunty Gail and Bec’s Bubup Storytime at North Melbourne Library
Join Aunty Gail Smith and Bec Axford for a very special storytime, spoken in Woi-wurrung language.
Friday 14 August, 4pm to 5pm
Children's Library, North Melbourne Library
No bookings required
Location
Various libraries