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BOREDOM BUSTERS 2 Activities for you and your family YouthConnectTRC 131 872 [email protected] www.tr.qld.gov.au 2 HELP LINES Kids Help Line 1800 55 1800 Parents Help Line 13 43 25 84 Beyondblue 1300 22 4636 headspace Toowoomba 07 4639 9000 Life Line 13 11 14 QLIFE 1800 184 527 DV Connect 1800 811 811 13-Family 13 32 64 1800 Respect 1800 737 732 ADIS 1800 177 833 Policelink 131 444 Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000 National Coronavirus Helpline 1800 020 080 Queensland Community 1800 173 349 Recovery Hotline Having trouble navigating services? Contact YouthConnect! 131 872 [email protected] TRC Youth Connect Boredom Busters 3 WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRADITIONAL HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED CUSTODIANS OF THE TOOWOOMBA • Have a yarn! Positive change starts with conversations REGION, AND PAY OUR – ask questions and be involved. RESPECT TO ELDERS • Visit culturally significant sites and go on a cultural tour! PAST, PRESENT AND Check out the local ones: » Gumbi Gumbi Gardens at USQ (more on Page 20). Download EMERGING, FOR the free Gumbi Gumbi Gardens Audio Tour app and listen THEY HOLD THE to Elders share their stories and ideas, giving you a unique KNOWLEDGE, RICH opportunity to enjoy the Gardens through others’ eyes and walk TRADITIONS AND together towards Reconciliation. https://www.usq.edu.au/about-usq/locations/toowoomba/gumbi- BOLD AMBITIONS OF gumbi-gardens AUSTRALIA’S FIRST » Book a visit to Gummingurru - Gummingurru is located at PEOPLES. Gowrie Junction and is on the country of the Jarowair peoples. National Reconciliation Week (27 May-3 Gummingurru is a men’s ceremonial place and the site of stone June) is an important week for all of arrangements. us to appreciate and celebrate across https://www.gummingurru.com.au/Visiting Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait » Visit the Cobb+Co Museum and visit the Binangar Centre. This Islander cultures are the oldest living centre showcases local stories on the history of the Traditional cultures in the world. Reconciliation Custodians of the Toowoomba Region and celebrates centuries involves all Australians valuing and of local history, culture and people. recognising the rich and diverse • Cooking! Try making a damper or using native plants Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander like lemon myrtle to cook (recipe on Page 15). cultures that have existed in our nation for over 60,000 years and continue to • Watch a film! Check out movies such as Toomelah, this day. Samson and Delilah, Bran Nue Dae and Rabbit Proof 2020 marks the 20th Anniversary Fence. (Our Youth Leaders have reviewed some films - of National Reconciliation Week. In check out Page 11.) honour of the 20th Anniversary—when • Learn about Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Australia came together to walk on bridges and roads across the nation Strait Islander culture by checking out the Share our to show support for a more reconciled Pride website – http://www.shareourpride.org.au/ Australia—we present this chapter of Boredom Busters, a dedication to acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and recognising their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. https://www.reconciliation.org.au TRC Youth Connect Boredom Busters 4 ABOUT THE ABORIGINAL FLAG ABOUT THE TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER FLAG The Aboriginal flag was designed by Harold Thomas, a Luritja man from Central Australia. The Torres Strait Islander flag is attributed to the late Bernard Namok of Thursday It was created as a symbol of unity and national identity for Aboriginal people during the land rights movement of Island and was formally adopted in 1992. the early 1970s. The symbolic meaning of the flag colours are: The symbolic meaning of the flag colours are: Black Torres Strait Islander people Black Aboriginal people of Australia White peace (star: five major island groups, dhari: island custom) Red earth, the red ochre and a spiritual relation to the land Green northern and southern mainlands Yellow sun, the giver of life and protector. Blue waters of the Strait that nourish both spiritually and physically. Did Did you you know? know? • Language holds the key to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s history and is linked to • English is a foreign language in some Aboriginal cultural and spiritual identity. and Torres Strait Islander communities and in • More than 700 different Aboriginal languages some cases the third language spoken. and dialects were spoken in Australia before • Two broad languages in the Torres Strait are the European settlement. Western and Eastern language. • Today, less than 250 languages are still spoken. • A third language spoken in the Torres Strait is • European settlement interrupted the passing of Creole—also referred to as Yumplatok. language from one generation to another. • The Western language group incorporates four • Today, language lives on through individual dialects: Kalaw Lagaw Ya, Kalau Kawau Ya, words and varieties of Aboriginal English Kulkalgau Ya and Kawalgau Ya. incorporating structures of Aboriginal language. • The Eastern language group is called Meriam Mir. 3 5 From Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships www.datsip.qld.gov.au TRC Youth Connect Boredom Busters 5 ACTIVITIES SORRY HAND SUN PAPER PLANE What you need: How to make the best paper • Paper aeroplane! For more designs, • Paint/colouring pencils/crayons/ visit https://www.foldnfly.com/1. felt pens html#Basic-Dart • Scissors What you need: • Sticky tape • Paper • Pen or marker What to do: 1. Fold the paper in half What to do: 1. Using the pen or marker, trace 2. Unfold and then fold the corner around your hand on the paper into the centre 7-12 times. 3. Fold the top edges to the centre 2. Using the paint/colouring pencils/ 4. Fold the plane in half crayons/ felt pens, colour in each hand however you like – be as 5. Fold each wing down to meet the creative and colourful as you want. bottom of the plane WATER FIREWORKS 3. Carefully use the scissors to cut 6. VOILA, you have a perfect paper What you need: out each coloured-in hand shape. aeroplane • Empty clear jar or glass (the taller the better!) • Bowl or cup NATIONAL • Food colouring (any colour of your choosing) RECONCILIATION • Warm water WEEK ART ACTIVITY • Oil (any type of cooking oil) What you need: • Paper (this can be any kind of paper – • Fork blank white paper is best, but if you only What to do: have a newspaper or magazines laying 1. Fill jar/glass almost to the top with around, use that instead!) warm water • Tape/masking tape – not too sticky and 2. Pour about 3 tablespoons of oil thin tape is best into the other bowl/cup • Paint brush 3. Carefully put drops of food • Paint colouring into the oil » Aboriginal Colours - Red, Yellow, Black Paint 4. Mix food colouring and oil with the » Torres Strait Islander Colours – Green, Blue, Black Paint fork – you will notice it doesn’t mix What to do: with the oil, the colour will break 1. Using the tape, create the word you want to use on your bit of paper. into smaller drops 2. Using your paint and paintbrush, paint over the word, making sure it is completely 5. Pour the oil and colour mixture into covered with paint. Note: you can do it like picture above or you can be as the warm water in the clear jar/ creative as you like. glass 3. Once the paint is dry, carefully remove the tape from the paper - leaving behind 6. Now watch! The food colouring will the words in your art. slowly sink in the glass with each droplet expanding outwards as it *You can re-create any words that means something to you. We have used ‘Sorry’ falls. Looks like fireworks! Right? and ‘Proud’ in ours pictured above. Some other options could be Truth, Dreamtime, Pride, Country, Respect or Culture. TRC Youth Connect Boredom Busters 6 BACKYARD PATTERNS with Alex Stalling Watch the video at youtube.com/ToowoombaRegion Find out more about the artist at THE Instagram - alexstallingart Facebook - createwithtinker HOME PROJECT Backyard Patterns Observe. Lightly draw the objects individually, look at what shapes are alexstallingart createwithtinker used to make up the object as your WITH Alex Stalling starting point. Are they long and thin - or big and round? Once you have the rough shape, start to draw in the details. Look for bumps, curves, and Step 1: Gather. Collect leaves, flowers, sticksdetails that makeand up rocksyour object. Add as much detail as you like, or keep it 1 STEP 1 from your backyard. simple. Draw in any marks or shadowy STEP 2 areas of your objects. Gather. Collect leaves, flowers, sticks and rocks from your backyard. Step 2: Observe. Lightly draw the objects individually, look at what shapes are used to make up the object as your Pattern. With a black pen or pencil starting point. traceAre around they your longobjects, leaveand out thin - or big and round? any of the details you don’t want. Once you have Erasethe them rough now if you shape, are using a start to draw in the pencil or after if you are using a pen. details. Look forAdd bumps, in more details curves, to fill in the spaces and details that make up of your picture. Use patterns, lines, STEP 4 your object. Adddots, shapesas much to create interestingdetail as you Resolve.like, Howor willkeep you finish it your elements of your artwork. Overlap artwork? Will your pattern be black simple. Draw inthem, any or keep marks them separate, or itshadowy is up andareas white or ofwill you have colour? 2 STEP 3 to you. Are you keeping the colours the your objects.