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STORY: PAGE 9 Six young local cultural leaders on exciting Warraan Widji Sydney trip By WARRAAN WIDJI ARTS SIX young local cultural leaders recently participated in an exciting trip to Sydney with the focus of growing their capacity for transformative change. Their visit was at the invitation of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Kallie-Lea Daley, Kaya Dodd-Simmons, Shamika Kentwell, Zoey Daley, Jerome Shepherd, and Charlie Gale were all invited by Warraan Widji Arts (Warren Performing Arts and Language Place) to participate in the trip held in mid-November, with each candidate selected due to their demonstration of potential as future cultural leaders. Senior Project Officer at the Faculty of Law, UTS, Shellee Murphy-Oates, liaised with the Jumbunna Institute, UTS, to to support the visit by funding accommodation costs. Shellee has connections with Warren through her father, John Oates, who was born at the Beemunnel. The young leaders met with First Nations academics, including Dr Marcelle Burns, a Gamilaraay woman and Associate Dean Indigenous Leadership and Engagement, Faculty of Law, and a senior solicitor in the NSW Supreme Court. Continued page 2
Services support White Ribbon Day in Warren STORY & PHOTOS: PAGE 3
Grant windfall for local groups By TESS VAN LUBECK TWO local not-for-profit groups in Warren have recently been awarded grant funding by the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) for unique projects. Warren’s very own Chamber Music Festival and Rotary Club have both been fortunate enough to be named among the recent beneficiaries of the FRRR’s “Strengthening Rural Communities” (SRC) program. Established in 2019, the SRC program aims to improve the vitality and liveability of remote, rural and regional places across Australia, and has distributed more than $27.4 million Australia-wide for a variety of “small and vital” causes. Rotary president Tony Smith said the club is “stoked” with the news. “We’re always thinking about what we can do [for the community],” he said. “John Bourke came up with the idea of placing signs
Warren Rotary Club members have received a grant from the FRRR for their unique ‘Turn Right For A Night’ project. PHOTO: SUPPLIED.
down at bottom weir to show all the caravanners what there is to do locally, and it evolved into ‘turn right for a night’ thanks to Paul and Jen
Smith,” he said. Rotary plans to put the funding towards the tourism initiative “Turn Right For A Night” which will see signs
installed on the outskirts of town encouraging travellers to explore Warren. Continued page 8