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Voices for Generations

Posted by Team APATA | May 4, 2023

Reconciliation Australia is hoping you will join them in song to contribute to National Reconciliation Week 2023.

Singers, choirs, school groups, and any group who sing together sign up as the country gathers to sing From Little Things Big Things Grow by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody.

HOW TO BE PART OF VOICES FOR GENERATIONS

  • Register your choir or group to participate using the registration form.
  • When you register your choir you will be able to access arrangements and backing tracks. There are full and shortened arrangements of the song.
  • Rehearse and work on your approach to the song – sing as much or as little of the song as you want.
  • Choose where you would like to perform your song – e.g., at school lunchtime, at a party or event, in a park, at the local markets, in a hospital or care facility, or even in your own lounge room.
  • You can choose to video your choir or group singing and share via social media during National Reconciliation Week using the tags #NRW2023Voices #VoicesforGenerations. 
  • Tag Reconciliation Australia: InstagramFacebookTwitterLinkedIn 
  • Deadline for submissions is 20 May 2023

Watch the video below where Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody talk about writing From Little Things Big Things Grow – The story of the Gurindji people’s struggle for their land. Describing the Wave Hill Walk-Off in 1966, through to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically handing Gurindji land back eight years later.


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