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20th Anniversary

 

Our 20th anniversary celebrations is the next big thing coming up. The theme for the anniversary is ‘Bridging the Gap’. We are celebrating it on Saturday, 22nd November, 2008. There will be activities for all ages starting at 5.00pm. Iron Men Welders will be having a bush tucker barbecue with emu, kangaroo, crocodile, chicken and lamb meats.
TAFE’s Tourism and Hospitality department will set up a bush tucker tasting table with a spread of native food.

Activities for children will include a children’s party with party games and food. Local primary schools will present a combined school choir which will be conducted by Mrs Ruth Samuels, the principal of Sandon Primary School. Duval High School orchestra will also be performing that evening. Aboriginal children will demonstrate a corroboree with didgeridoo music and dance.

There will not be a short of exhibitions with three photographic exhibitions which are In-Living Memory, In-Living Memory (local version) and Bridging the Gap: history of the Keeping Place. In Living Memory features images from a series of 1000 black and white photographs from the official records of the former NSW Aborigines Welfare Board. Most of the photographs were taken to document the work of the Board and to promote its policies. The exhibition also includes images taken during the exhibition consultation process by renowned Indigenous photographer Mervyn Bishop. In Living Memory addresses the photographs as living records with compelling histories and powerful connections to the present. The exhibition is helping to create a new purpose and place for the photographs within contemporary Indigenous life.

The Centre has always been instrumental in launching emerging artists’ careers. That evening it will present the works of two local Aboriginal artists, Nick Levy and Leo Wright. The Centre will also have a raffle for a painting by Queensland artist Lloyd Hornsby called The Falcon. It is a magnificent piece of painting of a falcon.

The main highlight for the evening will be the unveiling of a huge clay mural of an Aboriginal man and a woman measuring 6 feet by 5 feet. It is made by well-known local potter, Joe Sartori.

The 20th anniversary marks the strength and endurance of the Aboriginal Cultural Centre. For the past 20 years it has bridged the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, raised awareness of Aboriginal issues and exposed visitors to Aboriginal culture. It is therefore fitting for Armidale and its surrounding residents to come together to celebrate its presence in the last 20 years.
 

 

 

 

 

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     128 Kentucky Street
     PO Box 1360
     Armidale NSW 2350
     Australia

     Telephone: 02 6771 3606
     Facsimile: 02 6771 4579
     Email: director@acckp.com.au