By Dylan Peisley
Want to get into the mood for Reconciliation Week without even leaving your lounge room?
Here’s a list of ten ways to connect without even having to get dressed for the occasion:
- Download these Spotify playlists and enjoy music by talented and brilliant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists
- Learn to count to ten in Kaurna language with the Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi
- Download Blacademia podcasts from the ‘Baby Academic’, Amy Thunig to hear her interviews with First Nations/Indigenous academics
- Head to ABCiview to watch Series 4 of the witty, wacky and sometimes acerbic but always entertaining, Black Comedy
- Register to do an online weaving workshop with Tjanpi Weavers or download their step-by-step instructions on how to weave a basket learning from the Tjanpi desert weavers themselves
- Check out some deadly Aboriginal people making hilarious TikToks exploring contemporary Aboriginality, here are a few of my faves: @yaaboiitoshii @sari_ella_thaiday @alwyndoolan
- Tune into the Healing Foundation as Uncle Jack Charles shares his story
- Tune into 989FM Friday mornings to listen to Dr Chelsea Bond and Angelina Hurley on their show ‘Wild Black Women’, where they yarn about all the things that makes them wild that week
- Watch this TedTalk by Jacinta Koolmatrie (Adnyamathanha/Ngarrindjeri) on “The myth of Aboriginal stories being myths”
- Cruise IndigenousX online to read articles by Indigenous people across the country sharing their knowledge, opinions and experiences
Feature image by Tjanpi Desert Weavers
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