Community Engagement
ANTaR Qld holds a range of gatherings and activities across the year, often in collaboration with other organisations and sometimes independently.
This might be a Yarning Circle or a discussion panel on issues such as our shared history, or aspects of incarceration, or something celebrating First Nations activities and culture.
It might be a film night, a bus trip to explore the history of ongoing colonial impact or a walking tour. It might be a Sea of Hands event, a lunch or coffee gathering and chat seeking to make connection and help understanding. It might be a stall disseminating information at a larger public event (the Woodford Folk Festival, a university public address by leading Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander speakers).
We hold a number of gatherings of solidarity and allies groups throughout the year. The goal is to amplify all our work by being more aware of and supporting each other’s efforts to work for justice, rights, recognition and genuine self-determination for First Nations people.
If you are interested to come along, please contact office@antarqld.org.au
We also support and publicise the work of other bodies, for example, supporting Survival Day, Sorry Day, Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC events.
ANTaR Qld works with a range of both Murri and non-Indigenous organisations to hold or support others holding these and associated activities.
Images: From Top Left:
At the Changing the Narrative event with PIEEC on Bribie Island; speaker, MP Leanne Enoch
Dr Noritta Morseu-Diop speaking about cultural healing.
Dr Mary Graham and Mr Les Malezer speaking on Voice at ANTaR Qld’s anniversary.
Anne Brown sitting next to Aunty Jean at an ACU event where Thomas Mayor spoke on Voice.
Community Outreach
Seeking to build respectful relationships is central to how we try to work and Kylie is always demonstrating that for us and advising us. Kylie is deeply embedded in First Nations communities in West End and beyond, holding safe spaces in Boundary Street, visiting and yarning with Elders, helping out with funerals, celebrating together and providing school packs and food packs when we can. We all seek to hold our relationships and offer respect and attention, but Kylie can offer presence, cultural safety, celebration and kinship. Supporting Kylie’s contribution is fundamental to what we do.
We are not set up to provide on-going or substantial support and have no source of funding beyond community donation, but we nevertheless respond where we are able to. We provide assistance through networking with other organisations and referrals to support bodies and also offer some support in kind or in funds, mainly through West End Community House.
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