CHILDREN, friends, family and community members have marked the start of Reconciliation Week by planting a “sea of hands” at the Youth Centre in Palmer Street.
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National Reconciliation Week runs until June 3 and was launched nationally on Saturday with the third anniversary of Sorry Day.
In Orange activities include a Reconciliation Golf Day on Friday at Ex-Services Golf Club and a Family Day at the Youth Centre in Palmer St on Saturday with a barbecue lunch, display of local Aboriginal artefacts and didgeridoo player.
Co-convener of the Orange Reconciliation group, Mike Cooper, said National Reconciliation Week had become a major event on the national calendar, culminating in last year’s Corroboree 2000 events, the people’s walk for reconciliation and strong reconciliation theme at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
“It is now important to maintain the momentum with local communities marking the week in their own ways as they have done in previous years.
“The range of activities at community level, the real people’s movement, has always been National Reconciliation Week’s great strength,” he said.
“In the light of last year’s events and the formal cessation in December 2000 of the Council for Reconciliation, the theme for this year is Reconciliation, keeping the flame alive.
“As well as our golf day, which is now an annual event, and family barbecue at the Youth Centre, the fantastic exhibition Utopia: Ancient Cultures/New Forms is on display at Orange Regional Gallery during May. A special invitation to a private viewing has been issued to members of the Aboriginal community on Friday, June 8 at 5.30pm,” he said.
To take part in the golf day or for information about the Family Day phone Jamie Newman on 6393-3300 or Mike Cooper on 6392-6771.
