NAIDOC Week Celebrations in Gascoyne

Carnarvon has celebrated the NAIDOC week ( 5-10 July 2021)

The Celebration was started with opening Ceremony March at the Gwoonwardu Mia Cultural Centre

This was followed with the Question and Answer Discussions with 8 local panels and Real Futures regional Manager Sean Challis was one of the selected panels.

Real Futures Activity Supervisors Samantha and Vynka facilitated and assisted the arts and crafts. The children had so much fun with the creative crafts.

Kids having fun with arts and crafts

Poster created by the kids

Face painting

For the sporting event the Carnarvon Dart team had their tournament for NAIDOC, which everyone had made a special shirt. It was good to see our aspirants get together and build stronger relationships.

Carnarvon Dart Team

The Carnarvon Dart Team in action

On Wednesday local services including Real Futures partook and assisted the Family Fun Day, and was pleased that everything went well and everyone had great fun. (Photos were taken early so not many people at the event, however this changed later in the day and there many people on the day)

Real Futures team helped with the cooking of the barbeque, and facilitating the arts and craft activity.

Tree planting at Gwoonwardu Mia Cultural Centre with the 5 Language groups in Gascoyne Region.
Thalanyji

Yingarrda

The trees planted represent the five language groups at the centre Yingarrda( Carnarvon) Baiyungu( Coral Bay) Thudagarri ( Upper Gascoyne Junction) Malgana (Shark Bay and Thalanyji (Exmouth)