[Ngapartji Updates] Ngapartji Ngapartji forum on indigenous languages - this Wed.

[alex kelly]

_*Can you say 'how do you do' at Uluru? *_

*A public forum on Australian Indigenous languages presented by Big hART 
and the /Ngapartji Ngapartji /team.

**WHEN: 6-7pm, Wednesday January 30^th 2008*
*WHERE: Belvoir Street Theatre. Belvoir St, Surry Hills, Sydney*
*HOSTED BY: Prof. Larissa Behrendt - *Research Director, Jumbunna 
Indigenous House of Learning, UTS

*SPEAKERS*:
*Makinti Minutjukur*, Pukatja Community Liaison
*Kevin Lowe* Inspector, Aboriginal Education, NSW Board of Studies
*Daryn Mckenny,* General Manager, Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Assn
*Jody Bruan* Director General, NSW Department of Aboriginal Australia
*Alex Kelly* Creative Producer, /Ngapartji Ngapartji// /

Before European arrival Australia was home to over 250 distinct 
languages. Tragically, in the last 218 years Australia has suffered the 
largest and most rapid loss of languages known *worldwide*.

NSW is currently the only state in Australia that has developed a 
comprehensive state-wide Indigenous languages policy.

Join academics, community language workers and politicians as they 
discuss the urgent need to protect and maintain Australia's languages. 
Supporting languages is an intrinsic part of protecting and valuing 
Indigenous cultures. It can provide the key to unlocking Indigenous 
disadvantage.

The session is being presented by Big hART, producers of /Ngapartji 
Ngapartji/, a highly acclaimed and moving theatre piece, currently in 
season at the Belvoir St Theatre as a part of the Sydney Festival. 
/Ngapartji Ngapartji: meaning 'I Give You Something, You Give Me 
Something'; is a concept governing relationships and exchange in 
Pitjantjatjara society and culture. /

/*A rare, compelling and essential gift. -- Sydney Morning Herald */
/*This is searingly truthful, vital theatre.... certain to be remembered 
as one of the memorable productions of the year. -- Daily Telegraph*/
/*The most important Australian work to inhabit our theatres for a long 
time. - AussieTheatre.com*/


For more information please contact
Alex Kelly Creative Producer, Ngapartji Ngapartji
M: 0422 777 590
E: _alex at ngaparjti.org <mailto:alex at ngaparjti.org>_
_http://ngaparjti.org <http://ngaparjti.org/>_
_http://bighart.org <http://bighart.org/>_
NGAPARTJI NGAPARTJI
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