[Ngapartji Updates] July update - language policy links

[Alex Kelly]

It's been a very busy few months since we last sent an update from the 
Ngapartji Ngapartji office so we thought we should send out a quick email.

We have started to pull together our legacy package/memory basket and 
archive plans for the project, run some dance workshops in Mimili, held 
another creative development for our new show /Nyuntu Ngali/ in 
Ernabella, produced a rough cut of our documentary /Lost for Words/ and 
met with Ministers Macklin and representatives from Rudd, Garrett and 
Gillard's offices regarding a national indigenous languages policy in 
Canberra.

For a full update on the language policy campaign check out the latest 
news on our site;
http://www.ngapartji.org/content/view/261/1/

We're just about to head up to Garma to present at this years key forum 
on Creative Industries, getting final shots for /Lost for Words/ and 
gearing up to head to Adelaide with /Nyuntu Ngali/ - if you are at Garma 
or Adelaide or Alice come and say hello!

Palya,
Alex for the Ngapartji Ngapartji team

PS Some great stories on indigenous languages in the media recently:

The Rest Is Silence, Nicolas Rothwell reviews Nicolas Evans new book 
Dying Languages
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25781511-16947,00.html

Radio National Holding our Tongues story
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/awaye/stories/2009/2608237.htm#transcript

Bilingual education policy in the NT paper launched
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/research_program/publications/discussion_papers

Never mind the whales save the languages in The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25678553-25192,00.html

National Indigenous Times reports on Bilingual symposium at AIATSIS
http://nit.com.au/breakingNews/story.aspx?id=18119


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Alex Kelly

Creative Producer

Ngapartji Ngapartji


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