COME AND CHAT OVER A CUPPA
The Indigenous Hospitality House is a space that welcomes people to learn, listen and share about what it means to come together, living on stolen, unceded, sovereign Aboriginal land.
If you’d like to contact us and have a chat with us about the project, share thoughts or discuss how we can work together toward serving the community, let us know. Give us a call on 9387 7557 and we can arrange a cuppa.
We want to centre Indigenous knowledge and voices, and encouraging solidarity from all settler folk.
We believe in working together to build relationships that strengthen community, support Indigenous people, and ground our collective connection to country.
LEARNING CIRCLES
Learning Circles are an opportunity to gather and learn about First Nations justice and resistance of the colonial system of so-called Australia.
We acknowledge that racism, negligence and discrimination are adverse health factors for Indigenous peoples, and is a contributing factor of colonisation. Therefore, we want to focus on community education to amplify Indigenous peoples voices and stories. We need to learn about these issues, to develop solidarity and collective liberation.
We seek to connect people who are involved in the IHH community and bring them together towards a common purpose; to journey towards justice and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples. The conversations we grapple with together are sometimes heavy, but important. We aim to support and hold each other through this process through honesty and sensitivity.
For example, past learning circles have discussed forced displacement, genocide, incarceration, stolen generations, stolen wages, deaths in custody, police brutality, human rights abuses under the government, spirituality, land back, self determination, mutual solidarity.
DOCUMENTARY & DISCUSSION NIGHTS
There are so many incredible works of art that show the stories, diversity and resilience of First Nations in this continent. Listening to the stories and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is essential to acknowledging the past and present, which informs the future. We seek to amplify these personal stories of truth to the IHH wider community through documentary and movie night viewing. We look to cultural history and current events as way to become educated and informed on how we can act in solidarity with Indigenous peoples healing.
We hold discussions afterwoods to reflect on how we can integrate these learnings into our lives.
READ “TALES FROM THE TABLE”
In 2017 we published a book which draws together some of what we’ve learned during the first fifteen years of the IHH. You can buy a copy here. We can post your copy to you, or you can drop in to pick it up from us.
