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1. 2024 Brisbane NAIDOC Ball

   Brisbane NAIDOC Ball is a night celebrating our culture and acknowledging Brisbane Black excellence.

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   Brodie Murray

   National NAIDOC Youth Award Category

   

   Brodie is a proud Wamba Wamba and Ngarrindjeri man, living in Naarm (Melbourne) on Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung and Boonwurrung Country.  Brodie is a storyteller, playwright and performing artist driven to tell the stories of Victorian Aboriginal peoples’ survival. Brodie grew up near Castlemaine, Victoria on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Brodie’s life has been heavily influenced by his grandparents, Uncle Bes and Aunty Lorraine Murray, who made sure he grew up connected to his family, strong in his culture, and guided by his Elders. He has also been fortunate in his connection to his Scottish Australian grandparents, Karina and Sholto James. Brodie’a grandfather, Sholto was an Actor himself in the 1950s performing in the early days of Melbourne’s Union Theatre. 

   In 2020, Brodie’s passion for culture and performing arts led him to study the Aboriginal Performance Course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. The course gave Brodie a strong grounding in First Nations art, literature and politics. 

   Brodie made his debut as a playwright at the 2021 Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival in Melbourne with his play ‘Soul of Possum’, a first contact story set on Wamba Wamba Country. With dramaturgy and cultural support from his mentor Arrernte playwright and multidisciplinary artist Declan Furber Gillick, the play was a great success.  

   Brodie wrote his second play Billy’s Choice, as part of Yirra Yaakin Writers Group in Perth and then adapted it for film during Melbourne’s lockdowns for the 2021 Melbourne Fringe Festival, directed by Rachel Maza, with dramaturgy by Geoff Kelso. The play received the Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Indigenous Artist Award and Young Creatives Award. Billy’s Choice is an autobiographical work about the choices and struggles young First Nations people face everyday living between two worlds.  

   Brodie is currently studying at the Victorian College of the Arts in the Theatre stream and is an Alumni of the First Peoples Young Artists Program at the Melbourne Theatre Company. Brodie hopes to be a positive role model for young First Nations theatre makers. 

   Brodie’s many achievements include:  

   • In April this year, Brodie won the prestigious Sofitel Melbourne on Collins Arts Award at the 2023 7NEWS Young Achievers Awards Victoria 
   • Brodie was among the recipients of the Australian Council’s 2022 First Nations Arts Awards, receiving the First Nations Emerging Career Development Award during a special event broadcast by NITV in Sydney. 
   • A highlight of 2022 was having his third produced play, The Whisper, performed at Melbourne Fringe Festival, directed by Maryanne Sam, with dramaturgy from Glenn Shea and Mari Lourey.  The play was inspired by the story of his Nan, Lorraine Murray and her Ngarrindgeri family’s secret journey across country in the 1940s, by horse and cart, under the cover of night to evade the welfare. 
   • Brodie has written for the Melbourne Theatre Company’s ‘First Stage’ Program (2022), and for Ilbijerri Theatre Company’s 10 IN 10 play reading project (2021) 
   • As an actor, Brodie has performed in Soul of Possum (as young warrior Dindi); in Billy’s Choice (as Billy); and in the role of Mathew in Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret (part III of An Indigenous Trilogy), by Glenn Shea at La Mama Theatre in November 2022.  
   • Most recently, Brodie performed in a devised work with the MTC First Peoples Young Artists Program, directed by Nathan Maynard. A collaborative work about voice, identity and connection, One Day was presented for the 2023 Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival at St Martins Youth Art Centre. 
   • Brodie has been a guest presenter on panels for The Wheeler Centre, Blak and Bright and The Clune Writers Festival. He has also spoken on segments such ABC AWAYE, 3KND Radio, RRR Radio, and has had two featured articles about his work in The Age newspaper. 

   Brodie hopes to continue to expand his practice in the creative space and community as an artist by both writing and performing First Nations stories. Being a finalist for the 2023 NAIDOC Youth Award means a great deal to Brodie as a proud Victorian Aboriginal person.

    

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3. First Nations Art & Culture Events

   Brookfield Properties is rolling out six weeks of free events for its tenants and the public across its key commercial property assets in Sydney, recognising its commitment to supporting and celebrating First Nations people and culture. Equal parts immersive and educational, Brookfield Properties’

4. Roger Knox Q&A with Robbie Bundle at Brunswick Artist Bar

   BRUNSWICK ARTISTS' BAR // FREE ENTRY // 6PM - 7.30PM Roger Knox Uncle Roger Knox has uplifted and entertained audiences from across the world with his beautiful honeyed voice. He has embraced a diverse career in Cabaret, Gospel and Country Music.

5. Roger Knox Q&A with Robbie Bundle at Brunswick Artist Bar

   BRUNSWICK ARTISTS' BAR // FREE ENTRY // 6PM - 7.30PM Roger Knox Uncle Roger Knox has uplifted and entertained audiences from across the world with his beautiful honeyed voice. He has embraced a diverse career in Cabaret, Gospel and Country Music.

6. Bubup Wilam Aboriginal Child and Family Centre

   Bubup Wilam Aboriginal Child and Family Centre, meaning ‘Children’s Place’ in Woi Wurrung, is an Aboriginal community-controlled education, health and well-being organisation in Thomastown, Naarm (M

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   Bubup Wilam Aboriginal Child and Family Centre

   National NAIDOC Education Award Category

   

   Bubup Wilam Aboriginal Child and Family Centre, meaning ‘Children’s Place’ in Woi Wurrung, is an Aboriginal community-controlled education, health and well-being organisation in Thomastown, Naarm (Melbourne). Bubup Wilam aims to ensure that local Aboriginal communities can make decisions that directly affect them and exercise their right to self-determination in a meaningful and effective way.  

   Bubup Wilam is committed to working with families to raise strong, proud, and deadly kids in a culturally rich and supportive educational environment. Bubup Wilam enables children to begin their journey to reach their full human potential at an early age. Bubup Wilam reinforce children’s strong sense of Aboriginal identities and personal self-esteem and helps to lay the foundation for lifelong learning, health and well-being. Bubup Wilam do this by providing quality, culturally safe, and accessible care and education for children aged 0-5 years.  

   As an accredited and culturally safe education facility for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, children are given space to lead learning and teaching activities, to be themselves, to play and explore in a way that builds upon their strong and proud Aboriginal identities in partnership with their families. 

   Children’s Aboriginal identities are the catalyst that underpins their educational program and their experience at Bubup Wilam. This includes ensuring children’s curriculum is underpinned by truth-telling of the history of this country and supporting children with the skills and knowledge to thrive in a world that denies who they are.  Bubup Wilam further integrates this through their incredible Connection to Country program, taking children out of the classroom one day a week to learn in and from Country. To further strengthen community cohesion and solidarity, children are informed about their kinship and community ties through ancestry maps and photographs.  

   Their work doesn't end there. Bubup Wilam is one of only three service providers in the country to offer preventive and early childhood intervention services. This includes allied health services such as hearing tests, speech pathologists, visits to general practitioners, a comprehensive primary school integration program, and access to other health care services without fear, shame, racism, and without the burden of additional, often prohibitive, time-consuming costs and need to take time off work.  

   Bubup Wilam works to eliminate cultural biases and privileges within the education system, and strengthen community values of cohesion and resilience, building stronger communities now and in the future. Each child at Bubup Wilam holds a valuable place in cultural continuity with the ability to thrive in society. Bubup Wilam raises children to be confident, determined and strong, knowing they reflect the strengths of their ancestors and with the mindset and resilience to act like little leaders now and as influential Elders in the future.

    

    

    

   Video created by Blacklock Media. 

8. Bunbury Barbarians Junior Rugby Union Club NAIDOC 7s Tournament

   Bunbury Barbarians hold an annual NAIDOC week 7s tournament. Junior rugby clubs from all over the Perth metro and southwest competions come together for a big weekend full of fun and a lot of rugby 7s matches.

9. Bundjalung NAIDOC Community Day

   Bundjalung NAIDOC Community Day welcomes all mob to come together on Friday 9th July from 9am at The Lismore Quad. The Koori Mail is super proud to host this years day of deadly music, performances, dance, stalls, kids activities, cultural and arts workshops.

10. MEGAfauna afterDARK

    Of bunyip's and beasts... restoring memories of long-extinct creatures. Experience a night like no other in this immersive, illuminated and cultural event. A rare opportunity to see the Gardens in its nocturnal state and meet the enormous creatures of the MEGAfauna: myths & legends!