Campbelltown intergenerational Aboriginal project

• Reach:

  NSW

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Current

• Evaluated:

  No

Overview

The Campbelltown intergenerational Aboriginal project is a partnership initiative between Campbelltown City Council and the Office for Ageing (Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care). The project aims to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of Aboriginal men and women aged 45 years and over who live, work, or use services in the Campbelltown local government area in New South Wales.

This is achieved through:

• valuing the contributions of Aboriginal men and women to the community
• promoting learning, respect and understanding across generations and within the wider community
• providing opportunities for Aboriginal men and women to have their life stories documented for themselves and their families
• providing opportunities for older Aboriginal men and women to come together and strengthen connections with younger people in their community.

The project has recorded the life stories of voluntary older Aboriginal people, and provided opportunities for them to use their stories in a publication of Aboriginal men and women's stories, visual arts activities, theatre performances and school education materials. The two publications produced were:

• Tell me my mother
  • including 20 stories from Campbelltown Aboriginal women
• My father, my brother
  • including 20 stories from Campbelltown Aboriginal men.

Play scripts were developed from a number of these stories, which were performed by local secondary school students.

Abstract adapted from Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

Contacts

Project officer
PO Box 57
Campbelltown NSW 2560
Ph: (02) 4645 4416
Fax: (02) 4645 4385
Email: lisa.havilah@campbelltown.nsw.gov.au

To order copies of resources:
Campbelltown Arts Centre
PO Box 57
Campbelltown NSW 2560
Ph: (02) 4645 4100
Email: artscentre@campbelltown.nsw.gov.au

Links

• View information: Campbelltown City Council - Campbelltown intergenerational Aboriginal project
• View information: My father, my brother
• View information: Tell me my mother: stories of Campbelltown’s Aboriginal women
• View information: The Campbelltown intergenerational Aboriginal project
• View information: Campbelltown City Council - Campbelltown intergenerational Aboriginal project (Word - 35.5 KB)