We believe in the importance of social responsibility and that’s why we devote part of our revenue to directly fund our social impact program.
Through this program, we offer the opportunity for hundreds of Aboriginal students and community members to learn about Aboriginal cultural practices such as weaving, possum skin cloak sewing and artefact making and immerse themselves in Aboriginal culture at our cultural camps.
We are now taking bookings for schools and community groups wanting to participate in our Resurgence program during 2022. Our Aboriginal cultural knowledge holders will work with participants to make a possum skin cloak or weave a large scale woven sculpture. These cultural items are owned by the school or community group and will be featured in our 2023 Resurgence exhibition at Newcastle Museum.
Find our more about Resurgence- Interwoven program overview and video and Resurgence- Possum Skin Cloaks program overview video
Contact the Speaking in Colour team for more information.
We also run shorter programs for primary and high schools students including
- Art appreciation
- Artefact making
- Elders talk
- Interwoven (Aboriginal weaving)
- Possum (Possum skin cloaks)
- Time to move (Aboriginal dance)
- Torres Strait Islander dance and culture
- Yidaki (Didgeridoo) playing
Teacher professional learning
Aboriginal Pedagogy in EYLF
NESA Accredited Course
$950pp
11.5 hours of self-paced learning with additional mentoring sessions with the Speaking in Colour team. Mentoring is 6 to 7pm, Wed 16 November
Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives - Possum skin cloak
NESA Accredited Course
$299pp
Two hours face to face TPL with workshop, includes Speaking in Colour merchandise. Course dates are:
1pm to 3pm, Saturday 6 August
1pm to 3pm, Friday 18 November
Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives - Interwoven
NESA Accredited Course
$299pp
Two hours face to face TPL with workshop, includes Speaking in Colour merchandise
Course dates are:
1pm to 3pm, Fri 5 August
1pm to 3pm, Sat 12 November
How to embed Aboriginal perspectives
$299pp
Two hours face to face TPL, includes Speaking in Colour merchandise
Course dates are:
6pm to 8pm, Wednesday 10 August
1pm to 3pm, Thursday 10 November
Cultural Capacity Training
$299pp
Three hours face to face TPL, includes Speaking in Colour merchandise
Course dates are:
9am to 12pm, Fri 5 August
9am to 12pm, Sat 6 August
9am to 12pm, Fri 18 November
9am to 12pm, Sat 19 November
Embedding Aboriginal perspectives - Reconciliation Action Plans in ELYF
$299pp
Two hours face to face TPL, includes Speaking in Colour merchandise
Course dates are:
6pm to 8pm, Wednesday 17 August
6pm to 8pm, Wednesday 23 November
Teacher professional learning highlights
- Online and face to face options
- NESA accredited TPLs for teachers maintaining proficient accreditation
- Minimum 15 people for face to face TPL, 25:1 participant to facilitator ratio
- TPLs developed for teachers working in early years, OOSH, primary and secondary education
- TPLs are written and facilitated by qualified education consultants.