Showing posts with label NAIDOC Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NAIDOC Week. Show all posts

NAIDOC Week 2013 7th - 14th July.



NAIDOC Week, celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people throughout Australia. It's a great opportunity for the community to get involved and show support.

Visiting Sutherland Library during NAIDOC Week?
A selection of titles by Aboriginal and Torres Strait authors have been made available near the front door.

Here is a list of works by Aboriginal authors selected from the Sutherland Shire Libraries collection for NAIDOC Week.

The Boundary / Nicole Watson

Manhattan Dreaming / Anita Heiss

Paris Dreaming / Anita Heiss

Bloke / Bruce Pascoe

Carpentaria / Alexis Wright

Not meeting Mr Right/ Anita Heiss

Avoiding Mr Right / Anita Heiss

Legacy / Larissa Behrendt

Home /Larissa Behrendt

Caprice: a stockman's daughter / Doris Pilkington

Under the Wintamara tree / Doris Pilkington

Follow the rabbit proof fence / Doris Pilkington Young Adult Fiction.

Njunjul the sun / McDonald and Pryor

Who am I? The diary of Mary Talence / Anita Heiss

There'll be new dreams / Philip McLaren

Biography/Autobiography

Double native / Fiona Wirrer-George Oochungyung

Ten Hail Marys : a memoir / Kate Howarth

Life b'long Ali Drummond: a life in the Torres Strait / Samantha Faulkner with Ali Drummond

Black swan: a Koorie woman's life / Carolyn Landon & Eileen Harrison

Raparapa: stories from the Fitzroy River drovers / Barney Barnes...et al

Back on the block: Bill Simon's story / Bill Simon, Des Montgomerie and Jo Tuscano

Up from the mission: selected writings / Noel Pearson

Hey mum, what's a half caste? / Lorraine McGee-Sippel

Speaking from the heart /

Isabel Flick

Last truck out / Betty Lockyer

Nova: my story / Nova Peris

My Ngarrindjeri calling / Doreen Kartinyeri

The Mish / Robert Lowe

Once in Broome / Sally Bin Demin

Kimberley stories / edited by Sandy Toussaint

My place / Sally Morgan

Shadow Lines / Stephen Kinnane Non Fiction

Other

The Aboriginal soccer tribe / John Maynard

Our stories are our survival / Lawrence Bamblett

Singing the coast / Margaret Somerville and Tony Perkins

Indigenous peoples / Larissa Behrendt

Kurlumarniny: we come from the desert / Monty Hale (Minyjun)

Maybe tomorrow / Boori (Monty) Pryor

Kayang & me / Kim Scott, Hazel Brown

Mari Nawi : Aboriginal odysseys / Keith Vincent Smith

My people's dreaming : an Aboriginal elder speaks on life, land, spirit and forgiveness /Max Dulumunmun Harrison ; featuring photographs and recordings by Peter McConchie.
.............The ABC's Message Stick Program features a video of Uncle Max

Heartsick for country / Sally Morgan

Indigenous Australians for Dummies / Larissa Behrendt

Am I black enough for you? / Anita Heiss


Children's collection

Fog a Dox / Bruce Pascoe

Dead man's gold / Michael Torres

Playground: listening to stories from country and from inside the heart / compiled by Nadia Wheatley

The story of crow : a Nyul Nyul story / written and illustrated by Pat Torres

Savannah dreams / by Lolla Stewart, illustrated by Elaine Russell

Shake a leg / Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod

Demon guards the school yard / Anita Heiss and the students of La Perouse public school

Yirra and her deadly dog demon / Anita Heiss

Stolen Girl / Trina Saffioti

Celebrating survival day / Trish Albert

Curly saves grandma's house / Sally Morgan...

Born to run: my story / Cathy Freeman

Dharawal: the story of the Dharawal speaking people.../Les Bursill...

Babu the baby dugong / Selena Soloman

Island treasures: Torres Strait children share stories

Have you read any other great stories, celebrating the lives of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
Please tell us about them below.

NAIDOC WEEK 4 - 11 JULY, 2010

To celebrate NAIDOC Week Sutherland Library has selected books from the collection written by Aboriginal and Islander authors.

These books will be on display in Sutherland Library to make it easy for you to choose to read an Aboriginal author during NAIDOC WEEK.

Four DVDs have been added to our collection just in time for NAIDOC Week.
Indigenous Short Films from the Deadly Yarns series 1, 2, 3 and 4.

This is also a good opportunity to introduce yourself to the performance poetry of Romaine Moreton

The theme for this year's NAIDOC Week is Unsung heroes : closing the gap by leading their way.

Here is a list of works by Aboriginal authors selected from the Sutherland Shire Libraries collection for NAIDOC Week 2010

DVDs
Aboriginal rules
The Coolbaroo Club
Deadly yarns. Short films 1, 2, 3, 4
5 seasons
Liyarn Ngarn
Land of the little kings
A walk with words / Romaine Moreton

Fiction
Manhattan Dreaming / Anita Heiss
Bloke / Bruce Pascoe
Carpentaria / Alexis Wright
Butterfly song / Terri Janke
Not meeting Mr Right/ Anita Heiss
Avoiding Mr Right / Anita Heiss
Every Secret Thing / Marie Munkara
Legacy / Larissa Behrendt
Caprice: a stockman's daughter / Doris Pilkington
Under the Wintamara tree / Doris Pilkington
Follow the rabbit proof fence / Doris Pilkington

Young Adult Fiction
Njunjul the sun / McDonald and Pryor
Who am I? The diary of Mary Talence / Anita Heiss

Biography/Autobiography
Hey mum, what's a half caste? / Lorraine McGee-Sippel
Speaking from the heart /
Many lifetimes / Audrey Evans
Isabel Flick
The N word / Stephen Hagan
Memoirs from the corner country/ Harold Hunt
Last truck out / Betty Lockyer
Nova: my story / Nova Peris
My Ngarrindjeri calling / Doreen Kartinyeri
The Mish / Robert Lowe
Once in Broome / Sally Bin Demin
My place / Sally Morgan
Shadow Lines / Stephen Kinnane

Non Fiction
Singing the coast / Margaret Somerville and Tony Perkins
Indigenous peoples / Larissa Behrendt
Resolving Indigenous disputes / Larissa Behrendt, Loretta Kelly
My people's dreaming : an Aboriginal elder speaks on life, land, spirit and forgiveness /Max Dulumunmun Harrison ; featuring photographs and recordings by Peter McConchie.
.............The ABC's Message Stick Program features a video of Uncle Max

Children's collection
Yirra and her deadly dog demon / Anita Heiss
Flytrap / Meme MacDonald & Boori Pryor
Curly saves grandma's house / Sally Morgan...
Born to run: my story / Cathy Freeman
Dharawal: the story of the Dharawal speaking people.../Les Bursill...

NAIDOC Week 2009

NAIDOC Week 2009 - Honouring our elders, nurturing our youth.

From Monday 6 July, 2009 - Friday 10 July, 2009 documentaries and films will be showing in the Southern Lounge at Sutherland Library.

Get a cuppa from our hot drink dispenser, relax with some friends in our comfy lounge and learn a little about some fabulous Australian Aboriginal people.

Follow the links to read what Ronin Films say about these DVDs and maybe order your own copy.

Monday10am The Coolbaroo Club.
11am Intervention: Katherine, NT

Tuesday
2pm A walk with words : the poetry of Romaine Moreton.
2.30pm Urban clan : a portrait of the Page Brothers and Bangarra Dance Theatre.
3.30pm Deadly Yarns. 5 Short films (Broken bonds, Don't say sorry, Ganggu Mama, Miss Coolbaroo, Sugar Bag)

Wednesday
2pm Land of the Little Kings.
3.30pm 5 Seasons

Thursday
10am River of no return.
11am 5 short films (Night patrol, Straight from the Yudaman's mouth, Look listen speak, Milerum whose story?, Apekathe)

Friday - Sports special
2pm Aboriginal Rules.
3pm Buffalo Legends.