Justine Clarke and the Barunga kids. Photo: Justine Taylor.
This year’s Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) will showcase three bilingual children’s books and, for the first time, the event will be livestreamed from the Sydney Opera House on Wednesday 6 September, featuring ambassadors Jessica Mauboy, Gregg Dreise, Justine Clarke and Josh Pyke, as well as children from Barunga Remote Community School.
Created as part of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF), the day was launched 12 years ago to platform and celebrate the stories, cultures and languages of First Nations peoples.
Thuy On is Reviews Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the books editor of The Big issue for 8 years. Her debut, a collection of poetry called Turbulence, came out in 2020 and was released by University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). Her second collection, Decadence, was published in July 2022, also by UWAP. Her third book, Essence, will be published in 2025.
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