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Launch of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute and Change Agenda for First Nations Gender Justice – Livestream

Name: Launch of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute and Change Agenda for First Nations Gender Justice – Livestream
Start: 2024-03-19T18:15:00+11:00
End: 2024-03-19T20:30:00+11:00

19 March @ 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm AEDT

Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute and Change Agenda for First Nations Gender Justice! event cover

Hosted by the Australian Human Rights Commission, you are invited to celebrate the official launch of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute, and the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Change Agenda for First Nations Gender Justice! The Livestream event (via Zoom) will be held Tue 19th Mar 2024, 5:15 pm – 7:30 pm AEST.

About The Event

This historic event will be accessible via livestream from 6:15pm (AEDT) on Tuesday 19 March 2024. This is a FREE online event with up to 1000 participants expected to attend.

Auslan interpretation and live captioning will be available. If you have any additional accessibility requirements, please contact the organisers.

About the Institute

The Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute will find its home at the Australian National University on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country (Canberra), with a commitment to national and global reach and impact. The Institute will work alongside First Nations women, girls, gender-diverse mob, researchers, practitioners, and non-Indigenous collaborators to reform systems and structures, and achieve sustained meaningful change for communities, everywhere. As articulated by First Nations delegates at the 2023 Summit:

“The Institute will be our place, where we will create the research agenda, design the models to support thriving societies for our women and families on the ground, and put forward our stories and lived experiences as evidence-based and innovative policy.”

More about Punkaliyarra

Punkaliyarra is a long term intergenerational cultural transmission project which has been developed in partnership with senior and young women from Ieramugadu (Roebourne), including emerging Yindjibarndi Elder Michelle Adams. In the project, young women join senior women Elders, artists and mentors to delve into the deep knowledge and strength of Pilbara women, documenting stories in stunning visuals, sound, movement and spoken word. Punkaliyara is a meditation on women’s experiences, celebrating ancient and contemporary stories of their power, where nurture, care and guidance are formed in the collective.