Gai-mariagal Festival 2024

A Celebration of the Oldest Living Culture on the Planet
26th May to 14th July 2024

Gai-mariagal Festival 2024 - Northern Sydney Region -  Aboriginal Heritage Office Presents The life of David Unaipon at Ku-ring-gai Library



Wednesday | 19 June 2024 | 6:30pm to 7:30pm

Aboriginal Heritage Office Presents The life of David Unaipon at Ku-ring-gai Library

His face will certainly by familiar to many, as it smiles at us from the $50 note. But David Unaipon's extraordinary life deserves to be remembered in full.

David Unaipon was a preacher, an inventor, and an author, with his multifaceted life helping to break many harmful stereotypes of Aboriginal people.

Karen Smith of the Aboriginal Heritage Office will visit to take us through Unaipon's life story and explain why it is still relevant to us today.

Karen has been the Education Officer at the Aboriginal Heritage Office since 2011 and has shared her knowledge and experience of the local Aboriginal history and culture with thousands of local residents, students and schools. She leads guided walks and gives presentations throughout the partner Councils in northern Sydney.

Karen is from the Buruberongal clan of the Hawkesbury (Derrubin) area and her family has been living in the Manly area for many years. 

  • Event cost:  Free
  • RSVP - 18 June, 2024 

Event Location - Gordon Library

Event Title - Contacts

Ku-ring-gai Library

Event enquiries email

0294240120

Event enquiries phone number.

Location

Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Hwy, Gordon, 2072

Organiser

Ku-ring-gai
Library

We acknowledge the original custodians of the land, the Gai-mariagal clans of the Northern Sydney Region.  We pay our respects to the Elders past and present.