Indigenous Services Tumblr is moving

Thank you for being a reader of the State Library of NSW’s Indigenous Services Tumblr.

You can continue reading about the work we do, in sharing stories of Indigenous Australians and connecting communities with the Library’s collections, on the State Library of NSW website: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library-publications/blogs Simply click on ‘Indigenous’ in the topics section.

By bringing all the great Library information together in the one spot, we hope to make it easier for you to find enjoyable content to read.

Although we will not be adding new items to this Tumblr, the site will remain live and we will slowly move a selection of posts to the main blog.

If you are a follower, we suggest that you unfollow this blog and start following the State Library blog www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library-publications/blogs

Thank you for your support over years. We look forward to sharing more great content with you via our website.

Talking Deadly: My Grandmother’s Lingo

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In 2016, Animator Jake Duczynski was approached by SBS to work with Angelina Joshua from the remote South East Arnhem Land community of Ngukurr on a project to revive her Grandmother’s first - and now critically endangered - language, Marra.

The result was Walkley Award-winning animation My Grandmother’s Lingo, a beautiful voice-activated interactive story requiring the audience to speak words in Marra to progress through each chapter.

Be sure to join Jake Duczynski for Talking Deadly: My Grandmother’s Lingo as he discusses the development and impact of the animation and the important role tech can play in telling Indigenous stories. 

Wednesday 30 May 2018

6-7 pm 

The Glasshouse, State Library of NSW. 

Book your seat via the Library’s website.

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Has Sydney always been called Sydney? Waranara Yuwing = seek the truth

The Biennale of Sydney is Australia’s oldest festival of contemporary art. World Heritage Listed, Wa-rea-mah or Cockatoo Island is playing host to this 21st instalment of Australia’s largest visual arts event that showcases both local and international works.

On Sunday 29th April 2018 Melissa Jackson from Indigenous Services Branch was involved in a discussion about place names and identities of Aboriginal Sydney in the colonial era drawing from the rich array of images, manuscripts, realia and maps held in the State Library NSW collections.

Read more about Melissa’s talk at the Biennale of Sydney. 

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Talk by Melissa Jackson, ‘Has Sydney always been called Sydney? Waranara Yuwing = seek the truth’, 21st Biennale of Sydney Family Day on Cockatoo Island, 29 April 2018. 

Photographer: Levon Baird