Jakarta: The Australian Embassy in Jakarta will host a special virtual concert exclusively for Indonesians on Sunday to celebrate Australia’s Indigenous culture and history.
Award-winning didgeridoo artist William Barton will perform at Australia’s oldest library, the State Library of NSW in Sydney, supported by a string quartet, in a special event that that will be streamed live through the Embassy’s YouTube and Facebook platforms from 16.00 Western Indonesia Time (WIB).
The performance will mark the beginning of NAIDOC Week in Australia – a week in which Australians celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Australia’s First Nations peoples.
On November 13, the Embassy will hold a virtual Story Time session with Jessica Staines. Jessica will read the popular children’s book Kookoo Kookaburra by Australian author and illustrator Gregg Dreise.
"Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the world’s oldest continuous cultures," Australia’s Ambassador to Indonesia Gary Quinlan said in a press release on Friday.
"They have lived on and cared for the Australian continent for more than 65,000 years," he added.
The theme of this year’s NAIDOC celebrations is Always Was, Always Will Be (Aboriginal land).
This theme recognises that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have lived on and cared for the Australian continent for more than 65,000 years.
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