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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
In 2023 the NAIDOC theme is “For Our Elders.” Across every generation, our Elders have played and continue to play an important role and hold a prominent place in our communities and families. Come and listen to our three Elders on what it was like to grow up in the Torres Strait. An enjoyable yarn to listen in on. Curated by Samantha Faulkner.
#Artists
Aunty Vicky Duff
Aunty Vicky Duff is of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. While she now calls Tassie home, she is originally from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. Her family (The Drummond Family) have lived on Thursday Island since the early 1900s, through the Pearling era, WWII, and post-war rebuilding.
Samantha Faulkner
Samantha Faulkner is a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman, (Badu and Moa Islands, Torres Strait and Yadhaigana and Wuthathi peoples, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland). Her poetry and short stories have been published nationally and internationally. She is the proud author of Life Blong Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait, (2007) and editor of Pamle: Torres Strait Islanders in Canberra (2018). She also is a member of the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Network, MARION (ACT Writers) and treasurer, First Nations Australia Writers Network and Us Mob Writing Group. In 2023, she was the inaugural Torres Strait Islander curator for the Brisbane Writers Festival.
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