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June/July - Indigenous art and bark petitions Throughout June and early July, events across Australia focus on Indigenous Australia. Following Reconciliation Week, the National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) week, from 5–12 July 2009, celebrates Indigenous culture and history. NAIDOC traces its origins from 1938 when Aborigines from around Australia established a National Aboriginal Day Observance Committee (NADOC). The NADOC campaign for equality and citizenship rights developed from petitions presented to the Commonwealth Government in 1935 and 1937. NADOC became known as NAIDOC in 1991 to include Torres Strait Islanders. These early petitions and the later bark petitions from 1963–2008 are now seen as catalysts contributing to legislative and constitutional reform to recognise the rights of Indigenous Australians. The site of the first NADOC meeting at the Cyprus Hellene Club - Australian Hall was added to the National Heritage List in 2008. New and revised Australian Stories In addition to our articles on Australian Indigenous cultural heritage and Reconciliation; please see new articles on: Bark Petitions Women Indigenous artists in Western Australia	Quick links Home News feed Australian Stories News Design & architecture Digital media & film Festivals & conferences History & identity Indigenous arts Language & literature Performance Resources & funding Sport & recreation Visual arts Websites - new Monthly call-out Anyone who has an experience or idea about a place outside a capital city is invited to contribute their words, photographs, sound and video recordings to ABC Country Viewpoint.

Featured event Breaking Boundaries: Contemporary Indigenous Australian art from the Collection - Brisbane 13 December 2008 – 12 July 2009 Breaking Boundaries includes a number of new and proposed acquisitions by Brook Andrew, Alick Tipoti, Butcher Cherel Janangoo, Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Fiona Foley, Vernon Ah Kee, Gunybi Ganambarr and Sally Gabori among others. More...
Featured website Holding our tongues Holding our tongues is an ABC Radio National Hindsight project about the long and painful task of reviving Aboriginal languages. More...
Snippets Design and architecture culture.gov.au/news/design.htm Glenn Murcutt: architecture for place - Sydney 13 June – 5 October 2009 Architecture for place is a special exhibition that reveals the way Glenn Murcutt crafts his projects, with a selection of ideas presented from initial sketch to detailed construction drawings and the final built work. More...
Digital media and film culture.gov.au/news/digitalmedia.htm The Arab Film Festival - Parramatta, Sydney 2–5 July 2009 The Arab Film Festival aims to showcase stories from diverse Arabic-speaking cultures to Australian audiences that reflect the complexity and diversity of Arab communities and experiences. More...
Festivals and conferences culture.gov.au/news/festivalsandconferences.htm Testing the Fibre exhibition, Alice Springs Beanie Festival - Alice Springs, Northern Territory Exhibition 26 June - mid August 2009 The Alice Springs Beanie Festival is a community-based event that aims to develop Aboriginal women's textiles, promote women's culture and the beanie as a regional art form, as well as promote handmade textile arts. Each year over 500 entries are received for the Beanie Competition. More...
History and identity culture.gov.au/news/historyandidentity.htm Black(s)town - Sydney 6 June - 29 August 2009 Black(s)town is an exhibition of established and emerging artists exploring the origins of Blacktown through its historical and contemporary Aboriginal identities. More...
Indigenous arts and culture culture.gov.au/news/indigenousarts.htm NAIDOC Week - national 5-12 July 2009 NAIDOC Week events are held around Australia, from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, across Victoria, South Australia, Perth, throughout Northern Territory and in Queensland as well as the ACT with the regular NAIDOC on the Peninsula. More...
Language and literature culture.gov.au/news/languageandliterature.htm National Script Workshop - Sydney 27 June - 10 July 2009 This 2-week residential Studio programme of Playwriting Australia provides writers with the resources to progress to the next stage of creative development. More...
Performance culture.gov.au/news/performance.htm La Boite Theatre Company, Oodgeroo, bloodline to country - Brisbane 30 June - 11 July 2009 This new production, created with the involvement of Oodgeroo's family, tells the previously untold story of the tensions that tore at the fabric of one of Australia's most prominent families. More...
Resources and funding culture.gov.au/news/resourcesandfunding.htm The Inclusive Museum Conference 2009 - Brisbane 8-11 July 2009 The Inclusive Museum Conference is held annually in different locations around the world. Plenary speakers at this year's conference include some of the leading thinkers in museum studies and leading practitioners. More...
Sport and recreation culture.gov.au/news/sportandrecreation.htm State of Origin - Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane 15 July 2009 The State of Origin is an annual best-of-three series of rugby league football matches between the Maroons, representing the state of Queensland, and the Blues, representing the state of New South Wales. More...
Visual arts and crafts culture.gov.au/news/visualarts.htm Birgit Neiser, CAUGHT: Photographs of life at Sydney Fish Market - Sydney 13 June – 26 July 2009 The exhibition CAUGHT is the result of a long term personal project by photographer Birgit Neiser, who spent close to three years observing and recording life at the Sydney Fish Markets in Pyrmont. More...
Websites - new culture.gov.au/news/websites.htm Flickerfest Filmmakers Resource June 2009 The Filmmakers Resource Site will be a one-stop-shop for questions about marketing and distribution, festivals, legal requirements, contracting, rights and clearances. More...
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