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CoPP | RECONCILING | Grounded in Truth: Walk Together in Courage | 27 May - 3 June

[Edited extract from public address]

24 May: National Sorry Day

A community luncheon at South Melbourne Community Centre, cnr Park Street and Ferrars Place, South Melbourne, 12pm to 2pm, organised by Port Phillip Citizens for Reconciliation will be held. A welcome to country by the Boon Wurrung Foundation will be conducted, and musical performance by Brett Lee and poetry by MC Dennis Fisher. For more information contact Rosemary Rule on 0418 675 734.

27 May: Reconciliation Week

Flag raising Event – the theme this year is ‘Grounded in Truth: Walk Together in Courage’, and this event to be held 11.30am to 2pm, will feature a Welcome to Country, Smoking Ceremony conducted by the Boon Wurrung Foundation, followed by community luncheon at St Kilda Town Hall. For more information contact Todd Condie, Indigenous Policy Officer, City of Port Phillip on 0403 606 559.

3 June: Mabo Day 

Flag raising Event featuring a Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony by the Boon Wurrung Foundation, and a performance by special guests, Gerib Sik dance and culture group from far north Queensland, 11.30am to 2pm, at St Kilda Town Hall. Community luncheon will be provided. For more information contact Fred Gesha, Indigenous Arts Officer, City of Port Phillip on 0413 136 253.

8 July: NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Week)

The theme this year is ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth: Let’s Work Together for a Shared Future’, and this flagraising event will be held 11.30am to 2pm, at St Kilda Town Hall, and will include a Welcome to Country and a Smoking Ceremony conducted by the Boon Wurrung Foundation, followed by a community luncheon. For more information contact Todd Condie, Indigenous Policy Officer, City of Port Phillip, on 0403 606 559.


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City of Port Phillip
Diversity & Inclusion
St Kilda Town Hall, 99a Carlisle Street, St Kilda, Victoria 3182
Ewa Zysk, Diversity Officer
Tel: 03 9209 6694
Website: www.portphillip.vic.gov.au

City of Port Phillip respectfully acknowledges the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung. We pay our respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land and water.