The NSW Reconciliation Council (NSWRC) is keen to run writing workshops in regional communities like Dubbo to help students enter its annual contest.
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The NSW Schools’ Reconciliation Challenge expanded in 2016 to include a “writing component”, reports non-indigenous co-chair of the NSWRC Cecilia Anthony.
“We have not been able to offer workshops outside of Sydney yet but our aim for 2017 and onwards is to actually try to tour the workshops so kids in places like Dubbo can come in and have a day’s workshop,” she said. “We’re very interested in expanding our work into regional NSW.”
The challenge has long involved an art competition with the best 16 entries in 2016 on show at Dubbo’s Dundullimal Homestead until April 22.The travelling exhibition is being hosted at National Trust properties in NSW.
In 2016 the challenge accepted more than 1000 entries from 74 schools, 700 of them artworks. It gives students the opportunity to learn more about Aboriginal cultures, histories and issues, and reflect on “what reconciliation means to them”.
“I am extremely pleased that National Trust venues across NSW are helping visitors to think about Australian history from an Indigenous perspective, and consider what still needs to be done on the road to reconciliation into the future,” Ms Anthony said. The Dundullimal Homestead Shed Function Centre will house the exhibition until April 22, with entry free of charge. It will be accessible from 11am to 3pm Tuesday to Saturday, excluding Good Friday.
