Biamunga Yarn Up 2023
Event description
Join us for this year's Biamunga Yarn-Up at Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College.
Our guest speaker is Teela Reid, a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, lawyer, essayist, storyteller and co-founder of @blackfulla_bookclub, a platform that honours First Nation's Ancestors as the original storytellers.
Currently, Teela is a Sydney-based Senior Solicitor practicing in Aboriginal Land Rights litigation and in 2022 was appointed the Inaugural First Nations Lawyer in residence at The University of Sydney Law School.
She is a key advocate for the Uluru Statement of the Heart and is part of the Federal Governments Referendum Engagement Group for the Referendum on a First Nations Voice to Parliament.
In 2022, Teela was awarded the Australian Law Awards Indigenous Leader of the Year.
We welcome your donation at the door in support of "From the Heart', a First Nations not-for-profit organisation.
The Biamunga Yarn-Up will be followed by the opening of the Maruku Marketplace at 7pm. Join us for Bush Tucker Canapés at the opening.