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Media Release
7 March 2007
City of Yarra celebrates Fitzroy’s Indigenous past and present
Over the past few years, Yarra City Council, in conjunction with a Community Reference Group, has carried out an enormous amount of work to restore and enhance the historically significant Fitzroy Town Hall.
On Sunday 18 March, Council will launch a week-long celebration to officially re-open this important community facility to the public. The celebrations begin with a free community day on Sunday 18 March from 11am to 3pm.
As part of the official re-opening festival, Yarra City Council has also organised a range of events to celebrate Indigenous people’s past and present connection with Fitzroy.
The suburb of Fitzroy has a special and long-standing connection with Indigenous people in Yarra and across the country.
Fitzroy was established on part of the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people. This area, like much of central Melbourne was a significant meeting place for the Kulin clans, including the Wurundjeri people.
City of Yarra Mayor, Cr Jenny Farrar, said re-opening the Fitzroy Town Hall to the public meant celebrating the history of the area.
“We can not celebrate the history of Fitzroy without acknowledging its long-standing and important connection with Indigenous peoples, both past and present,” she said.
The Fitzroy Town Hall celebrations commence with a traditional Welcome to Country followed by a smoking ceremony to cleanse the building in the traditional way, by Wurundjeri Elder Ian Hunter.
Other Indigenous events throughout the week include:
- Indigenous dance workshop – free community day Sunday 18 March in the Fitzroy Town Hall Reading Room at 12.30pm.
- Public discussion on the 1967 Referendum - why Aboriginal people wanted changes to the Constitution which were overwhelmingly supported by the rest of Australia, on Thursday 22 March 12 midday at Fitzroy Town Hall Reading Room.
- Music workshop with Dave Arden - Thursday 22 March at 1.30pm in the Reading Room.
- Community forum on Securing a Fairer Victoria for Victoria’s Indigenous communities – Thursday 22 March at 2.00pm in the Mayor’s Room Fitzroy Town Hall.
For more information on these events or full a full listing on all events please contact Council on 9205 5555 or visit www.yarrcity.vic.gov.au.
What’s On - Family Day, Sunday 18 March
- Internationally acclaimed, Strange Fruit (www.strangefruit.net.au)
- Heritage tours
- Napier Studio mural launch and hip-hop on the street performance at 196 Napier Street
- “Green” renovation on your home and heritage talks
- Community group performances at entertainment
- Indigenous dance workshop
- Circus performance and workshop (www.westsidecircus.com)
- Bollywood dance and workshop
- Baby and family chill out zone
- Sport and recreation activities
- 3MBS Cry Baby Classical music concert (www.3mbs.org.au) at 2pm
- Historical Waiters race out the front of the Town Hall at 3pm
Other activities on throughout the week include a daily lunchtime lectures series, heritage tours, and citizenship ceremony, bi-lingual story times, Carnevale lunch for 100 senior citizens, Harmony Day, an African drumming and dance workshop, a youth hip-hop event, Al Gore Climate Change Project presentations and the Beasts Banquet – an interactive dinner and drama performance.
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