A Gift From Country - Victorian Aboriginal Culture Workshop

Join Annette Sax who is a Taungurung Early Childhood Consultant, Artist and Storyteller in an interactive Aboriginal Professional Development Workshop. Participants will create a ‘Gift from Country’ using natural and recycled materials.Be inspired by the contemporary Aboriginal children’s book Yurri’s Birthday written by Yorta Yorta woman Sue Atkinson and illustrated by Annette Sax. Annette has been given permission to share Aboriginal Academic, Dr Sue Lopez-Atkinson’s research Indigenous Early Childhood Curriculum & Self Determination. We will discuss the importance of Elders as the First Peoples being the Teachers of the Environmental Knowledge. Annette will share the responses around Aboriginal Pedagogy in the Victorian Early Years. Participants are asked to collect one natural material to use with other natural materials Annette will supply for the Art experience. Please bring gum leaves, hard bark, paper bark, gum nuts or flowering gum. We will make a ‘Nature Bouquet’ using Indigenous plants and recycled materials.

Venue: FKA Children’s Services Office
42 Dight Street,
Collingwood 3066
Date: Monday 23
January 2017
Time: 10.00am – 12.00pm
Cost: $100.00 + GST
Bookings: www.eventbrite.com.au

PARKING: There is only permit parking in Dight Street however there is parking in the surrounding streets near Collingwood College (Campbell Street) outside of school drop off and pick up times. All day metered parking in Wellington Street.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT: Train to Collingwood station - walk across Hoddle street along Vere street towards Wellington street turn left into Dight street Bus along Hoddle street - walk along Vere street towards Wellington street turn left into Dight street
Bus along Johnston Street - Walk along Dight Street and across Vere Street. Smith street tram - Walk down Stanley Street across Wellington Street, walk down Vere Street and turn right into Dight street.