Culture Love 2012 'Stories Under Tagai'
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The program aimed to promote intergenerational literacy during the Easter 2012 school holidays. It saw community Elders sharing traditional stories based around the Tagai legend with local children and was hosted by Indigenous Knowledge Centres (IKCs) on Badu/Mulgrave, Keriri/Hammond, Iama/Yam, Mabuiag/Jervis and Poruma/Coconut Islands, and the Rural Libraries Connect service on Waiben/Thursday Island. The programme reproduced these legends through storytelling, music, dance and art activities such as painting and printmaking.
Culture Love is a State Library of Queensland program delivered through Indigenous Knowledge Centres (IKCs). The Culture Love program provides opportunities for Indigenous children and young people to revive and celebrate culture through the arts. State Library staff and the IKC coordinator consult with the community to identify the local cultural themes to embed within the Culture Love program. From these consultations State Library staff prepare a draft program which is circulated and once approved support the IKC in the organisation of the program. The IKC then plays a lead role in delivering the program. The Culture Love program was first delivered in 2009. Participants in the program include State Library of Queensland, IKC network, Aboriginal Shire Councils and the Torres Strait Regional Council (who own and manage the IKCs), Arts Queensland, Queensland Health, the Torres Strait Regional Authority and the Office for the Arts, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. (Information taken from: Culture Love - State Library of Queensland : a case study in keeping culture strong through the arts, viewed 25 February 2022).
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