{"id":3657,"date":"2008-01-28T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/update-on-ngapartji-ngapartji-public-forum-on-indigenous-languages\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:04","slug":"update-on-ngapartji-ngapartji-public-forum-on-indigenous-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/update-on-ngapartji-ngapartji-public-forum-on-indigenous-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Ngapartji Ngapartji &#8211; Public Forum on Indigenous languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A theatre production by <a href=\"http:\/\/ngapartj.org\">Ngapartji Ngapartji<\/a> (who run the interesting online Pitjantjatjara course I <a href=\"<a href=\"\/blog\/2006\/10\/ngapartjingapartji-online-course-in-pitjantjatjara\/\">posted<\/a>  about in 2006) is having a sell-out run at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, with amazing reviews (links <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngapartji.org\/content\/view\/227\/1\/\">here<\/a>) (e.g. <i>The most important Australian work to inhabit our theatres for a long time.<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aussietheatre.com\/revngap.htm\">AussieTheatre.com<\/a>).<br \/>\n(Information: Belvoir St Theatre on (02) 9699 3444 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belvoir.com.au\/\">www.belvoir.com.au<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyfestival.org.au\/\">www.sydneyfestival.org.au<\/a>)<br \/>\n[<i>Update  4\/2\/08 &#8211; this has led to more publicity for the plight of Indigenous languages, e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/02\/01\/2152662.htm\">here on the ABC<\/a><\/i>]<br \/>\nThey are also having a  public forum on Australian Indigenous languages <i>Can you say &#8216;how do you do&#8217; at Uluru? <\/i> together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bighart.org\/\">Big hART<\/a>.<br \/>\nWHEN: 6-7pm, Wednesday January 30th 2008<br \/>\nWHERE: Belvoir Street Theatre. Belvoir St, Surry Hills, Sydney<br \/>\nHOSTED BY: Prof. Larissa Behrendt &#8211; Research Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSPEAKERS:<br \/>\nMakinti Minutjukur, Pukatja Community Liaison<br \/>\nKevin Lowe Inspector, Aboriginal Education, NSW Board of Studies<br \/>\nDaryn Mckenny, General Manager, Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Assn<br \/>\nJody Bruan Director General, NSW Department of Aboriginal Australia<br \/>\nAlex Kelly Creative Producer, Ngapartji Ngapartji<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the introduction:<br \/>\n<i>Before European arrival Australia was home to over 250 distinct languages. Tragically, in the last 218 years Australia has suffered the largest and most rapid loss of languages known worldwide.<br \/>\nNSW is currently the only state in Australia that has developed a comprehensive state-wide Indigenous languages policy.<br \/>\nJoin academics, community language workers and politicians as they discuss the urgent need to protect and maintain Australia&#8217;s languages. Supporting languages is an intrinsic part of protecting and valuing Indigenous cultures. It can provide the key to unlocking Indigenous disadvantage. <\/i><br \/>\nFor more information please contact<br \/>\nAlex Kelly Creative Producer, Ngapartji Ngapartji<br \/>\nM: 0422 777 590<br \/>\nE: alex AT ngapartji.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theatre production by Ngapartji Ngapartji (who run the interesting online Pitjantjatjara course I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}