Darug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation in Windsor, New South Wales | Community organisation

Darug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation

Locality: Windsor, New South Wales

Phone: +61 415 770 163

Address: PO Box 81 2756 Windsor, NSW, Australia

Website: https://darugcorporation.com.au

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25.01.2022 BORED IN THE HOLIDAYS ????? Come join in on our song writing and music holiday program. RECORD YOURE SONGS MAKE A BAND!!!!! ROCK OUT...MAKE FRIENDS.

25.01.2022 A range of rings I have been working on for a project on country #Darug Not for sale . . .... . . . #steringsilver #silversmith #smallbusiness #darug #ethicalsilver #slowfashion #925silver #silverjewellery #sterlingsilverjewelry #organicsilver #indigenousart #handmadejewellery #handmadeearrings #recycled #recycledjewellery #ethicallymade #sustainablymade #sustainablejewellery #sustainablefashion #fashion #oneofakind #industrialsilver#aboriginaljewellery #handmade #naidocweek #naidoc2020 See more

25.01.2022 Eel Festival 2021 7 March, Elizabeth Farm 10am-3pm Discover the Indigenous heritage of Parramatta, on Darug country.... On Sunday 7 March the annual Eel Festival returns to Elizabeth Farm. This family-friendly event celebrates Parramatta’s namesake, the eel, and its significance to the local Burramattagal people, who would gather in autumn to trade goods and share stories and food. Find out more via slm.is/eelfestival Eel Festival at Elizabeth Farm Alex Wisser for Sydney Living Museums

24.01.2022 Posted @withregram @baby_business_jasmine_seymour Thank you to everyone who has loved and shared Cooee Mittigar. I was a child who grew up on the Country of my ancestors (the Darug people) not being taught a single thing about my people, the Aboriginal people upon whom’s lands I attended school. Still here, still strong. Budyari budyari!!!!! #pmlitawards #magabalabooks #darug

23.01.2022 Post courtesy of Ja Rin. Hey tiddas Just wanted to show off our final touch in our Jarin Street x Trading Blak store at Warring...ah Mall Westfields - the first blak owned retail store in Westfields. Our very cool wall banner - by one of our Trading Blak founding members Jessica Johnson Self Determination in Action! Aboriginal owned First Nations owned products only (yes the water too! Deadly new company from Lapa) Aboriginal led First Nations staffed - including 6 Aboriginal young people who have never had a job before. Built from the ground up. Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far and into the next chapter of our journey. It is so very appreciated and vital to our existence and our core being. Everything about this is for our mob. So proud. Come visit !

23.01.2022 A truly amazing project that Custodians have been a part of for the last few years- helping to reconnect Darug language with Nura (Country).

22.01.2022 Leanne Mulgo Watson is a Darug artist-educator based in Blacktown who has illustrated children’s books including Cooee Mittigar and contributed to Young Dark Em...u. Leanne is the daughter of Aunty Edna Watson. She has been a director of the Darug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation for many years. Cooee Mittigar is her first book. She says I had always wanted to create books to share our knowledge, as education is the key to our culture staying strong. For our upcoming exhibition, Songlines and Sightlines Colouring in Blacktown, Leanne Mulgo Watson and artist Peter Rush have mapped sites of significance onto the gallery walls reflecting Darug song lines, plants, animals and the built environment for visitors to interact with, follow and be inspired by. Featuring Erin Wilkins and Bundeluk Watson. Curated by Tian Zhang. The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre 22 May - 19 June Free admission Learn more: https://bit.ly/2PiTDf0

21.01.2022 We are excited to announce that ‘Cooee Mittigar’ by Jasmine Seymour and Leanne Mulgo Watson has been shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards! Congratulations Jasmine and Leanne!

21.01.2022 THIS FRIDAY it’s time for the annual Santa Pub Crawl - Windsor 2020 Where everyone comes together to have fun fun fun, meet up with friends and make new ones... ..... while raising money for Hawkesbury's Helping Hands who aim to ensure that no one goes hungry at Christmas or any other time This years timetable is Friday December 18th, 2020 3.30 Railway Hotel Windsor 5.00 Tate’s Hotel 6.45 Royal Hotel (The Rex) 8.00 Macquarie Arms Hotel 9.30 Fitzroy Hotel Nothing is better than sharing the Christmas spirit with friends and helping others less fortunate. Blessed to live in the Hawkesbury #hawkesburylifestyle #whatawonderfulworld

20.01.2022 Smokey Dreaming Program Healing through Stories 19th May 2021 10am-1pm KCC 119 Cliff Drive, Katoomba Contact Aunty Elly 0478 138 681

20.01.2022 Here’s an excerpt of ‘Secrets Untold’ by Leanne Tobin. A collage work of Parramatta’s stories landscape, transformed as a video & storytelling piece for STORYBO...X Parramatfa. Go to our Parramatta showcase at storybox.co/parramatta-tobins to watch the full video & learn more about this beautiful piece. #naidocweek #storyboxparramatta See more

20.01.2022 I’m so happy to be playing some songs alongside these brilliant other artists soon to celebrate and raise money for Children's Ground. They are a really amazing... organisation that supports First Nations families and kids with community-driven education and health care. It’s free to register for the show via www.crowdcast.io/e/dqi6t5ne (donations are optional but encouraged of course if you can)! Looking forward to singing to you through the online looking-glass soon See more

16.01.2022 Huge congratulations to Jasmine Seymour and Leanne Watson on winning the Children’s Literature Category in the Prime Ministers Literary Awards with their amazing book Cooee Mittigar! If you missed seeing it announced click on the link below to see the moment unfold..

16.01.2022 Have you ever seen a blue bee? How beautiful?! This little one is a female blue-banded bee (amegilla walkeri) and can be found in parts of Western Australia Nick Volpe Wildlife Photography

15.01.2022 You are invited to the Annual commemoration of the Battle of Richmond Hill, RSVP is a must.

14.01.2022 "If we assume explorers and anthropologists like Sir Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt, Edward Eyre, Ernest Giles, Alfred Howitt, George Robinson, Augustus Gregory..., John McKinlay, Peter Warburton and others were not committing porkies in their diaries, then let us look at the blot from their witness. - If you saw people excavating earth to build a dam, tamping clay and ant bed into the base to make it waterproof, - if you saw them plant seed saved from last year’s harvest and irrigate that planting from the dam or stream diversion or blocking off an entire stream to cause it to flood across the grain field, if you saw that grain field harvested and stooked, - if you saw the green crop bundled behind brush fences and burnt so that dried grain fell into storage vessels, - if you saw the grain ground on large mills, if you saw the excess stored in stone silos, skin bladders or mud and straw rendered vessels, if you saw people herding young waterfowl into a stockyard for fattening, - if you saw engineers constructing thousands of kilometres of water races, tunnelling through rock, gauging the hydrology to within millimetres, if you saw permanent fishing weirs built so that the fences flattened with the incoming tide and could be erected on the outgoing to trap fish in storage ponds, - if you saw a stone house with vegetables growing on the turf roof, if the door of that house had a message telling neighbours where the occupants had gone that day, if that house overlooked the landscape of weirs and tuber fields, - if the oven outside that house had been swept in readiness for that night’s meal, if you saw that baskets inside the house were full of fruit or wrapped parcels of smoked fish and preserved plums, ... if you saw those things, what would you call those people? BRUCE PASCOE

14.01.2022 Listen to some more about this amazing project here

13.01.2022 Wonderful afternoon spent at Hawkesbury Central Library listening to the amazing Professor Grace Karskens speak about her new book- People of the River and also the fantastic research project- Dyarubbin The Real Secret River. Learning, sharing and truth telling all about The Hawkesbury Rivers (Dyarubbin) Aboriginal and colonial past, present and future..

13.01.2022 We acknowledge and honour First Nations people, who were the first to love and care for this beautiful land. Always Was, Always Will Be. Australia has the ol...dest continuing cultures in the world and that is something to celebrate! www.kwsa.com.au #alwayswasalwayswillbe #naidocweek #naidoc2020 #naidocweek2020 #aboriginal #torresstraitislander #community #australia #australians #keywordsign

13.01.2022 Happening today at 1pm

13.01.2022 MORE HOLIDAY PROGRAMS IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THINGS TO DO

13.01.2022 NPWS Aboriginal guide Chris Tobin shows us the traditional use of the native Soap Wattle (Acacia Longifolia). #NSWParks

10.01.2022 Burbaga Burawa Presentation Night (11/12/2020) What a fantastic night celebrating 1st & 2nd for the NSW Aboriginal Knockout Health Challenge. Beautiful opening... ceremony performance, with a welcome to country by Rhiannon Wright, followed by a dance performance by the Sista Girlz and finishing up with a didgeridoo performance by Jessy Currie - Nulungu Dreaming. Thank you to all our supporters and sponsors.. Huge shoutout to: Game Change PT , WentWest Ltd , Nxtset Health & Fitness & BYSA - Blacktown Youth Services Association with their support, we can continue to close the gap across the Western Sydney Community. Congratulations to all our mob at Burbaga Burawa!! What a celebration.....

09.01.2022 Little snippet from today of one of our youngest Custodians doing her part (in language!) for the Welcome to Country at Professor Grace Karskens talk about her new book, People of the River, at Windsor Library. This is how our Knowledge, Culture, Traditions and Language are passed down through the generations. Lyra got up with her mother, Rhiannon, while her grandmother, Leanne and great grandmother Darug Elder Aunty Edna Watson proudly watched the next generation step up an...d continue the amazing work that they have been doing for years of keeping the old ways of our people alive and strong! How special to have four generations of proud Darug women practicing and sharing our beautiful Culture and Language

09.01.2022 More pictures from NAIDOC week

09.01.2022 Aboriginal population matched the carrying capacity of the land because they saw their primary mandate as caring for the land and each other, their society was ...focused on the development of sophisticated technologies for land management, resource husbanding and population control. The structure of Aboriginal society also reflected these ecological considerations and eldership was attained not simply through age, but by demonstrated and accumulated merit in both religious and secular knowledge. There was therefore no division between church and state, because elders had to demonstrate a unified knowledge base as well as a communal approach to decision making. Through this blending of spiritual and secular authority in a system of eldership. Aboriginal society might be best described as a 'Druidic Meritocracy'. It was therefore a truly communalist society with no individual or specific group having control over resources. There was no individual accumulation of wealth or power and as a consequence there was conversely no accumulated poverty or disadvantage. there were no social class differences apart from the respect due to age and merit, and as indicated. decision making was by consensus rather than edict. All tribal areas were based on water catchment areas and the totemic system was utilised as a means of species conservation and land management.' The totem system therefore had a primary ecological purpose and all knowledge was integrated through the totem system to serve that primary ecological purpose. This ecological focus was achieved by the universal way in which the totem system was structured across Australia and in turn how this determined the structure of Aboriginal society itself. Aboriginal family kinship was therefore an integral part of their system of ecological relationship and control. Aboriginal people therefore saw human society as an interdependent part of the whole ecology and not separate from or holding dominion over it. For instance in all Aboriginal societies a Yin and Yang type of conceptual division existed, where every living and non living thing was divided between these two halves or 'moieties'. At the simplest level (and there were several ritual exceptions) this meant that an individual was not allowed to hunt or eat any of the animals in their own moiety. because they were his or her spirit cousins. In this way at least half the food sources were taboo to an individual and for instance it might mean you could eat wallaby but not grey kangaroo, or ring-tailed possum but not brush-tailed possum. As indicated, the totem system also governed marriage and family relationships and together with common male and female contraceptive practices, all tribes ensured that their population remained consistent with the natural carrying capacity of the land. This was however not just the carrying capacity of the land in a good or average year, but in the worst of years. For Aboriginal people abundance was the norm.' These land management and population control practices therefore meant that prior to British settlement in 1788 Aboriginal people in Australia enjoyed the highest common standard of living of any people in the world. Excerpt from 'The Dust of the Mindye' by Jim Poulter PhD.M.S.W. Dip.Crim. Dip. Soc.Stud. MAASW

09.01.2022 Congratulations to all the winners of the 2020 #PMLitAwards. Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago by Tiffany Shellam (Australian Histor...y) How it Feels to Float by Helena Fox (Young adult fiction) Cooee Mittigar: A Story on Darug Songlines by Jasmine Seymour, Illustrated by Leanne Mulgo Watson (Children’s fiction) The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr (Poetry) The Yield by Tara June Winch (Fiction) Songspirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country through Songlines by Gay’wu Group of Women (Non-fiction) Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson (Non-fiction)

08.01.2022 The incredible Archie Roach is inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. #ARIAs

05.01.2022 Some people may just see two kangaroos, but I see two old spirits in their totem form, watching over Mother Earth and protecting her secrets! Sometimes all you need to do is look a little bit deeper, and you will see everything for what it truly is!

03.01.2022 Reverend McGarvie thought he was making a neat list of names for specific places. But the name his informant gave him also explained what happened here in the Dreaming, what was significant about this place. Perhaps it went something like this: He asks, notebook ready, pencil poised: And what is the name of this place, Paddy Burns’ farm?... She gestures south-east, across Burns’ farm towards Gurangatty, fixed on rock, and then sweeps her arm towards those rugged, high cliffs beside the river. Dorumbolooa. The rainbow moves through here.

03.01.2022 To highlight the rich understanding and cultural connection to water that Aboriginal people have held for thousands of years, this week for NAIDOC Week, you’ll ...hear from five Aboriginal communities from across South Australia as they share their traditional and contemporary #WaterWisdom. We begin with the Adnyamathanha people in the northern #FlindersRanges, where in a persistently dry landscape, knowledge of water management is vital. #NAIDOC2020

02.01.2022 Beautiful review of the amazing Cooee Mittigar which is on the short list for the Prime Ministers Literary Award for 2020.

02.01.2022 Via @seed.and.sew

02.01.2022 Looking back on the year that was... Uncle Jack Charles joins Charlie Pickering tonight to discuss the highs and lows of 2020. The Yearly tonight 8pm, ABC TV + iview

02.01.2022 RARE BIRD OF A FEATHER Look at this beautiful Kookaburra showing off her rare plummage in Shellharbour! : Debbie Gay, Shellharbour