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New Institute for Urban Indigenous Health in Brisbane The Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery, Warren Snowdon, today welcomed the establishment of the new Institute for Urban Indigenous Health in Brisbane.
The Australian Government has provided funding totalling $312,618 toward the establishment and implementation of the initial phase of the Institute.
The Minister said the Institute would integrate health planning and servicing within Brisbane and the surrounding regions to meet the health needs of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.
Read more at http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/mr-yr09-ws-ws049.htm |
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Event Calendar The event calendar for Reconciliation Australia is available at http://www.reconciliation.org.au/home/get-involved/events/events-calendar. |
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Cynthia Payne awarded prestigious fellowship - Indigenous health News: Indigenous health worker awarded prestigious fellowship
13 May 2010
A respected Indigenous elder and health worker, who believes Indigenous health must be tackled from a spiritual perspective, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to test her ideas in her local community.
Cynthia Payne from Ingham, Queensland, has been awarded the Sydney Medical School's 2010 Rowan Nicks/ Russell Drysdale Fellowship which enables individuals working at grass roots level to undertake programs they believe will have positive, tangible outcomes for people they care for.
Read more at http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=4917 |
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The Connecting People and Place Program The Connecting People and Place Program
Connecting People and Place is an important component of water catchment care.
We all seem to know our postcode/zip code but do we truly know where we live geographically?
A water catchment area is a geographic location. Everybody lives in a water catchment place.
Water catchment care is best practice in land and water management by people.
Educating communities in water catchment care extends communal understanding about the natural processes of land and water, thus extending people's ability to cooperate in caring sustainably for their land and water.
Eco-Music and the "Connecting People and Place Program" is a medium for the human community to become water catchment literate through Arts and Education.
Read more at http://www.eco-music.net/?About_Us |
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Aussie love 'arts as well as sport' AUSTRALIANS are known to be sports-mad but it seems we are also a nation of art lovers.
About 16 million people engaged with the arts last year, a new survey by the Australia Council for the Arts shows.
And 40 per cent of those creatively participated in activities like painting and photography.
The findings are part of a survey of 3,000 people that covered visual arts and crafts, music, theatre, dance, reading, writing and music.
Read more at http://www.goldcoastmail.com.au/story/2010/03/01/aussies-love-arts-as-well-as-sport/ |
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Download "Funky Tonight" from iTunes Actions you can take to support Close The Gap
Download "Funky Tonight" from iTunes
At the 21st ARIA awards the John Butler Trio were joined by Keith Urban in a rousing rendition of "Funky Tonight". The performance received a standing ovation and the song is now available as an exclusive download on iTunes with all proceeds going to the Close the Gap campaign. Futher details at http://www.closethegap.com.au/action.php
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Registration for World Choir Games World Choir Games. Due to the large number of requests and based on the wishes of many groups the closing date for applications for the World Choir Games 2010 in Shaoxing, China, has been extended to 19th February 2010.
Read more at http://www.facebook.com/pages/World-Choir-Games/10776092500# |
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Reconciliation Action Plan workshops - Sydney & Melbourne 2010 Reconciliation Australia is holding two Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Workshops in Melbourne in February and Sydney in March.
Join RAP organisations we discuss the successes and challenges of developing and administering your RAPs, how you can extend your RAPs through cultural development and how you can engage with your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
This workshop is perfect for organisations who are beginning their RAP journey, through to organisations who are reporting on, and implementing, their second and third RAPs. It’s a wonderful opportunity to meet other RAPpers and to help build our RAP community.
Melbourne
Date: 17 February 2010
Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Location: Education Room, Koori Heritage Trust, 295 King St (cnr Little Lonsdale), Melbourne VIC 3000
RSVP: RSVPs essential rsvp@reconciliation.org.au. Places for this workshop are limited, please RSVP early.
Sydney
Date: 18 March 2010
Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Location: National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Eora Campus, 180 George St, Redfern NSW 2016
RSVP: RSVPs essential rsvp@reconciliation.org.au. Places for this workshop are limited, please RSVP early.
If you are not based in Melbourne or Sydney, but have contacts in your organisation who are and who would benefit from attending this workshop. Please forward this invitation along.
Brooke Pettit
Relationship Manager - Engagement
Reconciliation Australia
Ph: +61 2 6273 9200 Fx: +61 2 6273 9201 www.reconciliation.org.au
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Health article online Music made me deaf: As iPods and concerts harm the hearing of 75% young people, one woman tells her cautionary tale
By Phillippa Faulks
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1240570/Music-deaf-As-iPods-concerts-harm-hearing-75-young-people-woman-tells-cautionary-tale.html#ixzz0bhhiUNLG
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Honorary Doctorate - William Barton, didjeridu Leading didjeridu player and composer William Barton and distinguished business man Steven Wilson were awarded honorary doctorates on Saturday, December 19.
Mr Barton has taken the didjeridu beyond Australian concert halls to the international concert stage, blending the oldest culture in the world with Europe's rich musical legacy.
Vice Chancellor Professor Ian O'Connor said Mr Barton's collaborative work with orchestras, choral directors and composers in Australia and overseas had created a strong and positive future for both the didjeridu and Australia's cultural heritage.
"Through his music, William is strongly influential in promoting his Indigenous heritage and traditions to the world,” Professor O'Connor said.
In addition to performing at music festivals around the world and working with many artists and orchestras and chamber groups, Mr Barton is a teacher.
He has toured schools, performing "didjeridu rap", delivered a music program for young people at the Wacol Detention Centre and also an Indigenous music program to local State School students. |
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The Funding Database Australia's most comprehensive and user-friendly database of government, philanthropic and private grants, awards and funding programs. http://www.fundbase.com.au/ |
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Archie Roach 1988 In 1988 much of Australia was celebrating the Bicentennial but a young Archie Roach was expressing in song what many who weren't celebrating were feeling. For many Indigenous people there was anger, despair, disadvantage, land rights battles and deaths in custody.
Archie Roach dealt with this by writing songs about his own experiences and feelings – and then performing these songs to whomever would listen. Then in early 1988 Paul Petran, the producer of ABC Radio's ‘Music Deli' program asked Archie if he would come into the studio to record a few songs to play on radio. Archie agreed.
Twenty one years later Archie launches his new album Music Deli Presents Archie Roach -1988 with a series of shows up the east coast of Australia.
Further information at http://www.archieroach.com.au/Archie_Roach/Welcome.html |
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Songlines Celebration Day 29th Nov, 2009 Musgrave Park, Brisbane It’s the annual songlines Celebration Day. It’s a fundraiser for the choir and we have a great time presenting our favourite songs and some guests and friends of the choir in a 2 hour concert. Of course at the concert you’ll hear with clarity and passion the stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the tragedies and injustices, the beauty and strength of Australia’s first peoples.
Sunday November 29: Market and car-boot… 10.00 am – 12 noon, Concert 12 noon to 2.30… Jagera Hall, Musgrave Park, 121 Cordelia St, plenty of off street parking.
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Brisbane's Music History up to 1930 Free Public Lecture
Dr Martin Buzacott, recipient of the John Oxley Library Fellowship for 2007,
gives a free public lecture on Brisbane's Music History up to 1930 with
musical performances by organist Christopher Wrench and the QYO String
Quartet.
The Old Museum Concert Hall was the centre of Brisbane's music scene from
it's opening in 1891 to 1930 when the new Brisbane City Hall opened. To
coincide with the opening of a small exhibition in the foyer of the concert
hall, Dr Buzacott will bring to life the important events and musical
figures from this period.
Free entry (bookings recommended): info@qyo.org.au
Phone: 07 3257 3029 |
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Australasian World Music Expo The Australasian World Music Expo (AWME) will take place in Melbourne from 19-22 November, 2009. Now in its second year, AWME is the Australia-Pacific region's premier music industry conference and showcase of Indigenous, roots and world music
With less than one month to go before Melbourne explodes with the sounds and rhythms of the finest Indigenous and roots music from across the globe, the countdown to the Australasian World Music Expo has begun.
Program is online at http://www.awme.com.au/ |
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Google - addition to services - Music search October 28, 2009 - On Wednesday, Google will announce a musical addition to its service. Soon you'll be able to search for music on Google — and buy it just a few clicks from the search page.
The new service will be featured within a standard Google search. Just enter the name of the band or musician, then things like bios, videos and images pop up. Google itself is not selling the music. The search results will link to Google's partners, digital music retailers Lala and iLike. That's where you can stream or buy songs and albums. Sandoval says Google may be hoping the ubiquity of its search engine may help draw customers to its relatively unknown retail partners. But, he says, "people still, by and large, those that are obtaining music legally are going to iTunes." ITunes is the No. 1 music retailer in the country. Apple now sells about 25 percent of all music in the U.S. and 69 percent of all downloads.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114220986&ft=1&f=10004
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World Choir Games http://worldchoirgames/info
Start Time: Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 9:00am
End Time: Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 12:00pm
Location: Shaoxing, China
Being the world’s largest choir competition the World Choir Games shall inspire people to experience the strength of interaction which is able to challenge personality and community equally by singing together. Participation alone is important and the greatest honour. The World Choir Games are organised for amateur choirs from all over the world, no matter which continent they come from or which musical genres are represented in their repertoires or which artistic ambitions they have. To experience this festival for choirs from all over the world means to participate, to contribute one’s own performance, to compare to others and to experience the enthusiasm of singing together. |
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Lecture on mechanism of modelling - Prof. Rizzolatti For those interested in the mechanism of 'modelling' ie the body learning movements from watching - look up Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti, University of Parma, Italy - The mirror mechanism: a neural mechanism to understand others. Lecture from 5pm-6pm on Thursday, November 5, at the Auditorium, Level 7, Queensland Brain Institute, Building 79, Upland Road, St Lucia. RSVP: events@qbi.uq.edu.au or ext. to 66300 |
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World Stroke Day Hello ,
I thought you might be interested in learning more about the activities of the World Stroke Day, October 29, 2009.
I have included a link to the website with resources that we can all use to promote this day of action to increase awareness and remind people that everyone can do something about stroke. http://www.world-stroke.org/wsd/
Regards
Louise
For more information, please visit the website at:
http://www.world-stroke.org/wsd/
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Reconciliation Action Plan workshops RAP Workshops http://www.reconciliation.org.au/home/reconciliation-action-plans/rap-workshops
Reconciliation Australia has developed a series of workshops and we’ll be in your state or territory soon!
The aims of the workshops are to bring the local RAP community together to promote learning, to establish connections and build relationships, to share experiences and ideas to improve RAP actions and to link RAP organisations with Indigenous organisations.
Participants will also gain insights into employment, supplier contracting, impact measurement and communication and many other aspects relevant to your RAP. The dates and locations for confirmed workshops are;
Canberra ACT - 18 November 2009
Brisbane QLD – 2 December 2009
Melbourne VIC - February 2010
Sydney NSW - March 2010
Darwin NT - April 2010
Adelaide SA - May 2010
Hobart TAS - June 2010
You too can access writeups from the workshops we've already held;
Perth WA - 1 October 2009
You can attend any one of our workshops by RSVPing to rsvp@reconciliation.org.au. If you would like to host a RAP workshop, please contact Brooke Pettit our Relationship Manager – Engagement at brooke.pettit@reconciliation.org.au.
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