Families had a fun and educational day at the celebrations of NAIDOC Week at Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne (RBGV) on Wednesday 10 July.
Art facilitator and aboriginal artist Nine Wright from EARTHwise Culture immersed families in aboriginal culture with interactive painting workshops. Families were guided to paint their own stories through aboriginal art and symbolism.
Nina is from the Kokatha tribe of South Australia and comes from a long cultural line of Kokatha people. Her families are from the Central and Western Desert regions of South Australia and the Narungga and Kaurna peoples of the Yorke Peninsula and greater Adelaide.
Another interactive showed everyone a traditional aboriginal game called Marngrook, the original AFL football. Participants were guided by RBGV’s Aboriginal Learning Officer Jaffa Richardson to prepare and sew possum skins to create their very own Marngrook to take home.
