Put a hold in your diary and join your UC community in the Building 1 Theatrette for our Reconciliation Week lunch time documentary screenings.
Sessions are FREE.
Tuesday 28 May
Footprints on our Land
The life and legacy of Senior Ngunnawal Elder Aunty Agnes Shea.
Footprints on Our Land is testament to a senior Elder whose tireless service welcoming people to Ngunnawal country, in the tradition of her people, has been a major force for Reconciliation in the ACT.
Wednesday 29 May
Set at the time of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the film tells the story of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy's peace camp in Sydney's Victoria Park. At the centre of the film is Isabell Coe of the Wiradjuri Nation (in central New South Wales) who brought ashes to Sydney from the Sacred Fire for Peace and Justice at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, to symbolise the role of the Embassy in promoting reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians
Thursday 30 May
Take Heart reveals the incredible true-life stories of young people living with Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD), and the families and health workers caring for them. The stakes are high for these kids, RHD is life-threatening and they must comply to strict medication schedules to stay alive. Regular health checks, restricted activities and frequent hospital admissions are commonplace and they rely on the support of their family, friends and community health workers to keep them on track.