Join RIAA at our Acknowledge This! Workshop, which will be led by First Nations educator and artist, Rhys Paddick, and presenter Emma Gibbens.
RIAA is pleased to offer this unique opportunity to our staff, Board and members as part of RIAA's NAIDOC Week activities, as well as our Human Rights Working Group workstream on First Nations Peoples' rights, RI and sustainable finance.
There are limited places available. Tickets to the workshop are $20 per person with proceeds to help support disadvantaged Indigenous students.
Today, many organisations are implementing Acknowledgements of Country – and not many people know why. Most people presenting an AoC read off a script, ad lib one they have heard, or treat it as part of housekeeping. This token nature of presentation defeats the purpose of what AoC's are meant to represent in the first place.
Learn the first steps on how to create a genuine and authentic Acknowledgement about the place, people and position you're in, how to articulate it (the words) and how to mean it (make it personal to you and your organisation).