Shell workshop:
Aboriginal tours & workshops
$70 per person 10am - midday (includes materials) Make your own shell-work art with celebrated La Perouse traditional shellworkers Marilyn Russell and Esme Timbery. Their work has won the NSW Parliament Indigenous Art Prize and more recently purchased by and exhibited at the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
BLACK MARKETS Bare Island, La Perouse Sunday April 6 and runs 1st Sunday of every month for 2014 Markets and workshops opens 9.30 Aboriginal smoking ceremony 12:00 Aboriginal dancers and entertainment all day. Stallholders include Laddie Timbery, Esme and Marilyn Russell and the Jungah weavers. There will be Aboriginal designed clothes, artwork, bush-tucker food and spices, dream-catchers and jewellery just to name a few.
Spearhead Cultural Connections:
$90 per person 9:30 till 12:00 or 1:30 till 4:00 (includes materials) Spear making is a traditional Aboriginal skill and important cultural activity linked to survival. Dean Kelly of Warada Kinship will share his knowledge and skills with workshop participants about the manufacturing and creation of this ancient tool/weapon. He will also explain where the spear came from and how it has evolved and continues to hold and set the direction for life’s journey and how its form can be used to continually set and achieve your intended goals.
Aboriginal Weaving Workshop:
$100 per person 9:30 till 3:00 (includes materials) Join talented master weaver, Steven Russell of Jungah weavers from La Perouse but now living on the South Coast of NSW as he teaches you how to weave your own basket in the traditional style from traditional grasses. Stephen has been weaving for thirteen years as well as making Aboriginal tools, canoes, paintings and possum skin coats. Using a range of materials found locally along the east coast of NSW, he does contemporary and traditional weavings.
Catch N Cook cultural tour
From 9.30 - 12.30 for $90 Covers how Aboriginal culture is integrated into the natural environment and Aboriginal history past and present. Recommended for people over 10yrs.
All profits will go towards running a Back to the Bush program for Aboriginal youth at risk run by First Hand Solutions Aboriginal Corporation. www.firsthandsolutions.org
Catch N Cook kids tours
1/2 day 10:00 - 11.30 / 1:00 - 2:30pm $25 per person Fishing and bush tucker talk Recommended for people under 12yrs.
Enquiries: 0457 450 224 or firsthandsolutionsaboriginal@gmail.com To book any of the events visit the www.sydneyaboriginaltours.com.au/first-hand