GARMA FESTIVAL, 6-10 AUGUST 2010
Key Forum: Indigenous Education and Training,
7-9 August 2010.
The 12th Garma Festival of Traditional Culture is the venue for a leading three-day Key Forum co-ordinated by Charles Darwin University on Saturday 7 to Monday 9 August 2010 at the Garma Festival site at Gulkula. The Key Forum at the 2010 Garma Festival will focus on Indigenous Education & Training.
The Key Forum is now a major gathering of Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators, policy makers, academics, students, trainers, cultural practitioners and government, corporate and community leaders. The Key Forum makes a difference. It proposes new futures. It fosters leadership. It presents, discusses, and stimulates, analyses and progresses ideas, policies, practice and research of vital interest to Indigenous Australians and their social, cultural and economic well-being.
‘Garma’ means ‘both ways learning’ and is also used to describe the pioneering work of Yolgnu in ‘bothways school education’.
With its unique five-day line-up of entertainment, education and real cultural interaction, the Garma Festival of Traditional Culture is a spectacular celebration of cultural traditions and practices, and an award-winning model for insightful cultural tourism.
The Yothu Yindi Foundation, through Garma and its other programs, has three primary aims:
- creating economic opportunities for Yolgnu through education, training, employment and enterprise development;
- nurturing and maintaining traditional cultural practices; and
- sharing of knowledge and culture, thereby fostering greater understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
As well as the Key Forum and integrated academic presentations on language and culture, Key Forum participants also have the opportunity to watch the daily bunggul and music performances, enjoy Garma Expo, art exhibitions, and projects, and participate in evening and night activities, concerts, films & presentation.
Click here to register your interest in attending this Key Forum
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