Eumundi Rotar y shar ing the voices of Eumundi and sur round s Issue 24, Thursday 15 July 2021
Heal Country 2021
Gubbi Gubbi Dance at Bunya sculpture Cooroy BFAC (Fiona Groom) NAIDOC formed in 1956 and stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee with ‘Heal Country’ as this year’s theme. “To be Aboriginal is to feel the oldness of the trees, to truly hear the birds when they sing. It is to live with Country; to live as Country. When our connection to land is severed, we are people without purpose,” says Worimi and Gumbaynggirr Elder, Aunty Lyn Davis. ‘Country’ is the lands, water, skies, animals, plants, peoples,
natural phenomena past and future and all that which cannot be seen or touched. To open celebrations on 4 July, Gubbi Gubbi Dance and Ivy Minniecon and The Black Wattles entertained the crowd gathered outside the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre (BFAC). Inside, the Heal Country exhibition is on until 18 July. It includes Paul Calcott’s series of 24 dot-paintings representing the Convention on Human Rights before the piece goes to a United Nations Headquarters’ exhibition in New York. Cont. p3
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