Voices for Reconciliation: Louder Than Ever 2024
Be part of a unique performance: join Voices for Reconciliation to celebrate National Reconciliation Week! Submission deadline 15 May 8pm.
Every year workplaces, schools, early learning services, community groups, reconciliation groups, and people right across the country host a whole range of activities and events during National Reconciliation Week (NRW).
Check out the events below and see how you can mark NRW at an event near you.
You can also add your own event to this calendar or register your private event.
The dates for NRW are the same each year; 27 May to 3 June.
Please note: the events posted below are not the responsibility of Reconciliation Australia. If you have any questions regarding an event, please contact the organisers.
Be part of a unique performance: join Voices for Reconciliation to celebrate National Reconciliation Week! Submission deadline 15 May 8pm.
A diverse array of over 400 artworks by more than 380 First Nations artists who have experienced incarceration in Victoria.
A powerful exhibition of works by some of Australia’s most renowned First Nations artists held at Mudgee Arts Precinct.
Hear Scott Rathman Jnr's acoustic session followed by a relaxed artists talk in Gallery M Sat 18 May
Learn the Art of Boomerang Making with Peter Swain - what makes it fly and what make it come back?
Please join us to learn and reflect on Indigenous culture, and the important role reconciliation plays in creating community awareness.
Students explore portraits of and by First Nations people. Image: Mick Dodson 2010 © Ricky Maynard
Our free, 60-minute yarn will be a panel discussion about the theme of National Reconciliation Week 2024 - 'Now More Than Ever'.
Panel of leading First Nations and non-Indigenous directors share insights, and discuss two-way learning in governance.
Join us for a concert featuring local Indigenous musicians with art and kids' activities
Workshop making products from indigenous plants with Pat Collins (herbalist and Vice President of Indigenous Plants for Health Association).
Come & weave some of our final threads into rag rugs for Reclaim the Void: Weaving Country Whole.
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Paul Girrawah House has multiple First Nation ancestries from the South-East Canberra region, including the Ngambri-Ngurmal (Walgalu), Pajong (Gundungurra), Wallabollooa (Ngunnawal) and Erambie/Brungle (Wiradyuri) family groups.
Paul acknowledges his diverse First Nation history, he particularly identifies as a descendant of Onyong aka Jindoomang from Weereewaa (Lake George) and Henry ‘Black Harry’ Williams from Namadgi who were both multilingual, essentially Walgalu-Ngunnawal-Wiradjuri speaking warriors and Ngunnawal–Wallaballooa man William Lane aka ‘Billy the Bull’ - Murrjinille.
Paul was born at the old Canberra hospital in the centre of his ancestral country and strongly acknowledges his First Nation matriarch ancestors, in particular his mother Dr Aunty Matilda House-Williams and grandmother, Ms Pearl Simpson-Wedge.
Paul completed a Bachelor of Community Management from Macquarie University, and Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage and Management from CSU.
Paul provided the Welcome to Country for the 47th Opening of Federal Parliament in 2022. Paul is Board Director, Ngambri Local Aboriginal Land Council, Member Indigenous Reference Group, National Museum of Australia and Australian Government Voice Referendum Engagement Group.
Paul works on country with the ANU, First Nations Portfolio as a Senior Community Engagement Officer
Reconciliation Australia acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website contains images or names of people who have passed away.
