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This Australia Day we are encouraging the broader community to purchase an online embroidery session class that will be your contribution towards the making of a quilt that will be on display as part to the Museum of Australian Democracy social justice collection in Canberra ACT.

Due to COVID 19, this workshop will be hosted via zoom and online social media platforms. Refresher instruction videos will be posted to compliment your learning and participation over followup weeks to assist the completion of your contribution to the quilt in a timely fashion.

On completion of your square preferably over 2-3 week timeframe, we ask that it be returned postage paid back to Helen Fraser.

Reflect, respect, celebrate – we’re all part of the story.

* CRAFTISM WORKSHOP - YUMI OLGETA EMBROIDERY * ( or you and me altogether )

'Crafting a more Inclusive Democracy'

(embroidery workshop times TBA on registration)

Box includes a detailed instruction full-colour booklet emailed or posted, examples of embroidery choices, calico square, needle and thread.

Yumi Olgeta is an initiative as part of the Sugar Fest Oceanic Culture History & Music festival which is the result of over a decade of building community partnerships that celebrate the willingness of our Australian society to learn of its humble beginnings and the need to work together to build a more cohesive and robust society of inclusive multiculturalism.

On this day we remember what was before colonisation and reflect on our nation’s true history, which began tens of thousands of years ago with the First Australians – the world’s oldest living culture – and we must never forget the impact that European settlement had on our First Nations families way of life. We reflect and pay our respects to the knowledge keepers of land, sea and sky and in caring for Country.

Yumi Olgeta 'Crafting a more Inclusive Democracy' is a unique collaboration that has formed over the last two years between Australian South Sea Islanders (Port Jackson), Australian Artist Helen Fraser and the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra. In 2017 Helen joined an international quilt project called the United Declaration of Human Rights Quilt Project which led her to research Australia’s Slave Trade history. Her quilt block in this project was titled “Australia has a Slave History too” and was projected onto the front of Old Parliament House during the Canberra Enlighten Festival in 2019. It is now part of the Museum of Australian Democracy collection as they purchased the four quilts from this project in 2020. The Yumi Olgeta workshop is part of the Sugar Fest initiatives and the term is a Bislama word for 'you and me altogether'. Bislama is a language that was formed in Bundaberg Queensland in the 1800s as a result of clans tribes and plantation owners needing to communicate during Australia's Blackbirding trade.

All workshops cater for Beginners however there are options for Intermediate and Advanced participants included across all 3.

a) Session 1: 10 am - 12 noon (15 pp only per 1 to 2 hr zoom session)

b) Session 2: 1 pm - 3 pm (15 pp only per 1 to 2 hr zoom session)

c) Session 3: 4 pm - 6 pm (15 pp only per 1 to 2 hr zoom session)

Once you have purchased your ticket you will be contacted immediately with regards to which session you prefer and to have any questions answered or email assi.pj@gmail.com email: artemispsychology@bigpond.com

More on Helen Fraser and our Yumi Olgeta workshop in 2019.

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DATES & TIMES FOR WORKSHOP WILL BE ADVISED & HAVE BEEN FLEXIBLE DUE TO COVID pandemic limitations

Blackbirding History video 'Footprints'