2024 Sorry Day Commemoration
Event description
We invite you to join us this Sorry Day as we pause to remember and acknowledge the Stolen Generations and the impacts of those policies that caused such pain and suffering to individuals, families and communities over so many generations.
When: Monday 27 May 2024
Please arrive at: 10.10am
Where: Monash Park – cnr Welsford St and Fryers St, Shepparton
Yorta Yorta Country
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Sorry Day Commemoration
Welcome to Country
Smoking Ceremony
Guest Speaker
Readings from local Secondary School Students
Flag Raising and Laying of Wreath
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To help with event planning we ask that you register your attendance through Humnitix.
Let’s look after each other: If you are feeling unwell, please stay home and watch the livestream.
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This event will be livestreamed on: Facebook.com/RespectSRRG
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Shepparton Region Reconciliation Group acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country of the Dungala (Murray) - Kaiela (Goulburn) Valleys, the clans of the Yorta Yorta Nation; Bangerang, Kaieltheban, Kwat Kwat, Moira, Ulupna, Wollithiga, and Yalaba Yalaba and the Ngurai Illum Wurrung. We acknowledge their continuing connection to land, water and community and pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to their Elders past, present and emerging.
We also acknowledge that sovereignty of these lands and waters has never been ceded. Always was, always will be.