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The Indigenous Futures Seminar Series is excited to welcome Professor Kathryn Gilbey, Crystal Austin & Sophia Taula-Liera to present March’s seminar.
Seminar Overview:
In August 2022, the LEGO Foundation celebrated the brand’s 90th year, launching the $143 million ‘Build A World Of Play Challenge’ for impactful solutions to the biggest global challenges facing children 0–6 years. Our proposal, led by the Center for Indigenous Health, Johns Hopkins University (US) in partnership with the First Nations Health Authority (British Columbia), the Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education (Australia), and Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare, University of Otago (Aotearoa) was one of the top three winners. Our global collective has been given an exceptional opportunity to create positive transformational change outside of the whims of mainstream government funding, and via Indigenous self-determined ways of being, knowing, doing, and relating. Focused on “play as medicine,” this program honours our deep ties and responsibilities to the lands and waterways that teach and sustain us. The SPIRIT programme (Supporting Play and Intergenerational Relationships with Indigenous Tradition) is an Indigenous led, family-centred and planet-minded movement. It expands innovative and culturally centred Indigenous maternal and child wellbeing programs – Family Spirit - and intergenerational Indigenous designed community play spaces. With the help and guidance of Indigenous leaders, elders and communities we are building multiple worlds of indigenous play for our children and families that privilege our languages, cultures and relationships to our natural environments. Together we share and weave together our collective learnings, journeys and efforts – as Indigenous educators, researchers, practitioners, advocates, parents, caregivers, and community members to honour Indigenous children as taonga (treasure), the embodiment of our hope, wonder, and joy.
Register to attend here.
