A new text, Warrgamay Mayay Pronouns, has been developed. This book is the first in a series of Warrgamay texts which will include Country, Kinship, verbs, pronouns and a phrasebook.
Mirroma Workshop Participants Thursday Island
We have just started today and the workshop is going great. The Thursday Island mob are very excited and couldn’t help but comment that a black fella must’ve come up with the concept of Miromaa. (more…)
Article by Stephen O’Grady, from the Fraser Coast Chronicle
HERVEY Bay is poised to pioneer an indigenous education revolution.
Scrub Hill Indigenous Education Forum. Attending: Sandy Strait State School principal Shane Urquhart, Fraser Coast councillor David Dalgleish, Paul Herschell and Will Davis of Qld Studies Authority with Butchulla elder Frances Gala and Butchulla community linguist Joyce Bonner. Photo by Daniel Tweed
Graduation for Community Language Workers who completed a Diploma Australian Languages, and Warrgamay Elder who completed A Ba Arts (Language and Linguistics).
Article by Jedda Priman.
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Queensland Stories is the State Library of Queensland’s project to collect and display Queensland digital stories; stories about your community, your house, a special person, your favourite place, or things you love to do.
Queensland Stories is the State Library of Queensland’s project to collect and display Queensland digital stories; stories about your community, your house, a special person, your favourite place, or things you love to do.
Queensland digital stories are 3-4 minute mini movies where you are the storyteller and movie maker.
Queensland Stories is a growing resource providing a collection of digital stories which record and document the diversity of our lives as Queenslanders.
Is there a story about your Language project that you would like to tell? If so have a look at the SLQ website to find out how to be involved.
It would be great to have lots of stories from Language workers around Queensland, and we all like a good yarn so lets get talking!
Children from the Butchulla language program, in Hervey Bay, Queensland had a great end of year trip to Brisbane at Christmas time, which included their appearance as special guests at the State Library of Queensland Murri Christmas celebrations.
The children have for the past two years been part of an innovative and exciting program run by the Korrawinga Aboriginal Corporation which allows them to write and learn songs in Butchulla throughout the year, in preparation for an end of year performance.
St. Joseph’s Primary School.