AANTAL LEIDERS VAN DE YOLNGU re amb. W. Andreae: re orale overlevering: Wali Wunungmura, chairman Northern Land Council, uit BMB; verwijzingen in de muziek van George. Geen letterlijke betekenis. Djambawa Marawilli, plaatselijk leider in BMB, Politiek leider Galarrway Yunupingu Visit Banambi Wunungmurra, President East Arnhem Shire Council, 'zusterstadrelatie' met Arnhem.
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- On the Reconciliation process: the Yolngu and The Netherlands -
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Visit Dutch Ambassador to Garma Festival
Click >>> Resources: Arnhem Land: Interview with the Dutch Ambassador at GARMA - 06 August 2010
... In 1623 an expedition consisting of two VOC-ships, Arnhem and Pera, under the command of Jan Carstensz set sail to northern Australia to extend Willem Jansz’s earlier survey and look for a possible opening (the Torres Strait). During a fight with Papuans in New Guinea the skipper of the Arnhem got killed and Carstensz appointed Willem van Colster as the new skipper of the Arnhem. Relations between the two men were strained by the poor state of the Arnhem and the difficulties of the passage.
In April they arrived on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula and continued past Jansz’s Cape Keerweer to the southern end of the Gulf of Carpentaria where the expedition halted. From this point onwards Carstensz planned to slowly retrace his steps, investigating the land and its inhabitants more closely – a proposition van Colster considered likely to have disastrous consequences for his crew in the badly leaking Arnhem.
Instead, van Colster separated from Carstensz and sailed north-west in the hope of getting back to Banda as quickly as possible....
The annual Garma Festival is the largest and most vibrant celebration of Yolngu (Aboriginal people of north-east Arnhem Land) culture. The event is widely regarded as one of Australia's most significant Indigenous festivals.
The aim of the festival is to encourage local people to preserve and maintain traditional dance (bunggul), song (manikay), art and ceremony. This year’s theme is ‘Indigenous Education and Training’.
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Home - Netherlands Missions Newsflash | 9 August 2010 Close to 400 years of contact between the Netherlands and the people of Arnhem Land provide the basis for an arts project aimed at helping the young women of the region develop skills to provide livelihoods and address the high incidence of youth suicide. The Netherlands is to support a project with the Warruwi community South Goulburn Island that will teach young women from that community screen-printing skills. The Netherlands has made available $5500 to finance the scheme, which will be implemented in partnership with Indigenous Community Volunteers [ICV].... “My presence at the Garma Festival is to underscore the historic relationship the Netherlands has with the people in Arnhemland. The Garma Festival is one of Australia’s most significant events to celebrate Indigneous culture. This year, the focus is on Indigenous education and training. Hence, our decision to finance this arts project with ICV and express our support for the people of Arnhem Land.” To ensure there is long term support for the project, the Mardbalk Arts Centre has been set up with the necessary equipment. The project will bring in volunteers to help establish the scheme and teach the necessary skills. Low self esteem among young Aboriginal people is a key factor leading to rates of Indigenous suicide estimated to be two to three times that of the non-Indigenous population... from:- www.netherlands.org.au/ -
HUNDREDS OF YEARS THE BASIS FOR A PROJECT SPANNING NORTH AND SOUTH Indigenous Community Volunteers; 06 August 2010 The Netherlands, the people of Arnhem Land and Indigenous Community Volunteers [ICV] are using nearly 400 years of links to combine to help the young women of the region develop skills to provide livelihoods and address the high incidence of youth suicide.... Netherlands ambassador to Australia Willem Andreae used the setting of the Garma Festival, the country’s premier Indigenous cultural festival to announce a $5500 grant to finance that will help teach young women of the Warruwi community South Goulburn Island screen-printing skills.... Indigenous Community Volunteers — News <<< from: www.icv.com.au/.../hundreds-of-years-the-basis-for-a-project-spanning-north
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Nederland haalt banden aan met Arnhemland Ambassadeur Willem Andreaeheeft van 6 tot 8 Augustus een bezoek gebracht aan het inheemse Garma Festival in Arnhemland in de Northern Territory. Het doel van het festival is het stimuleren van de lokale bevolking om de tradities, zoals dans (bunggul), zang (manikay), kunst en ceremonies levend te houden. Dit jaar is het thema ‘Indigenous Education and Training’. Aanleiding was het aantrekken van de historische banden tussen Nederland en de bevolking van Arnhemland. Deze contacten dateren van 1623, toen het Nederlandse schip de Arnhem als eerste een deel van de west kust van de Golf van Carpentaria in kaart bracht. Op deze manier kwam Arnhemland aan zijn naam. De Nederlandse banden met Arnhemland zijn nog steeds zichtbaar, bijvoorbeeld in de plaatsnaam Groote Eylandt. Er bestaan zelfs rotsschilderingen in Arnhemland van oude Nederlandse VOC schepen. Tijdens zijn bezoek overhandigde de Ambassadeur een kopie van de eerste kaart van Arnhemland aan Galarrwuy Yunupingu AM, politiek leider van de Yolngu bevolking. De Ambassadeur kondigde tevens aan dat Nederland een project zal steunen met de Warruwi en Minjilang gemeenschappen in West Arnhem Land. Dit kunstproject zal meisjes van deze gemeenschappen zogenaamde ‘screen-printing’ vaardigheden leren. Deze vaardigheden kunnen ze gebruiken om in hun levensonderhoud te voorzien. Ambassadeur Andreae: “My presence at the Garma Festival is to underscore the historic relationship the Netherlands has with the people in Arnhemland. The Garma Festival is one of Australia’s most significant events to celebrate Indigenous culture. This year, the focus is on Indigenous education and training. Hence, our decision to finance this arts project and express our support for the people of Arnhem Land.” De Ambassade stelt $5,500 ter beschikking voor de financiering van het kunstproject, dat zal worden uitgevoerd in partnerschap met Indigenous Community Volunteers [ICV]. Jonge Aborigines in Australië hebben veel te kampen met een negatief zelfbeeld en incidenten van zelfmoord liggen drie keer hoger dan bij de niet-inheemse bevolking. Het project is opgezet om deze bevolking aan meer zelfvertrouwen te helpen. Template Nieuws - NL - Nederlandse Vertegenwoordigingen
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Dutch celebrate historic links with the people of Arnhem Landfrom Indigenous Stock Exchange: Resources:
Dutch ambassador Willem Andreae and Mr Yunupingu
-Aboriginal education key theme Garma Festival- The Australian, 10 08 07 ...Before a mixed audience of dreadlocked backpackers, indigenous policy experts and festival regulars, Gumatj clan leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu opened the festival and declared Aboriginal education the key theme. "The little ones can't be who they want to be without learning," said Mr Yunupingu, 62. "They must have an educational pathway created properly by the adults like you and me." As part of the opening ceremony, Dutch ambassador Willem Andreae presented Mr Yunupingu with a replica map of the voyage of the Arnhem, the Dutch vessel that skirted the Australian coast in 1623. "It's going to remind people there's been another country which had respect for the country and never took it over," Mr Yunupingu said. For the Yolngu younger generation, the festival is an opportunity to better understand their ties to the land, to learn spear-making and how to find bush tucker, and even master the didgeridoo, formerly the preserve of the elders... from: The Australian-Aboriginal education the key theme of northeast Arnhem Land's ... <<< _________________________________________________________________
Garma consensus for local solutions | The Australian ...Yunupingu aims to use the region's initial royalties, the lion's share of which falls to his Gumatj clan, to rebuild Dhupuma, and longing for educational success is plain is across the region. The Tiwi Islanders secured federal funds to help them build a dedicated private college on Melville Island, while a handful of well-run remote schools in Arnhem Land have been switching to Christian systems to secure additional support. This dream of real education stems in great part from the memory of what Dhupuma was: a campus that trained most of the leaders of today's north. It was a place with a code. Its symbols recalled the potent story cycles of the region. Yunupingu briefed an architect on plans for the new school recently: in his vision it would be a 300-pupil high school balancing and integrating two cultures: his own and the mainstream. It would provide core rules that today's wayward young generations lack -- moral guidelines: "Don't lie or the lie will get you. Don't steal or the theft will destroy you. Don't hate or the hate will kill you." Another guideline sits inside Yunupingu's head: he, like Pearson, accepts that collectivism has failed Aboriginal people in the bush. Pearson, in his columns in The Australian, speaks of enlightened self-interest as a means of levering remote area communities out of poverty. Yunupingu appeals to the family principle: initiative propelling family members to work for each others' benefit. There is a strong quality of return to past paradigms in these thought patterns, and in this way the plan to remake Dhupuma as an elite college is a means of annulling a generation of shared fates and wasted schemes.... www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/.../story-e6frgd9f-1225901960424 |
