This year’s winning NAIDOC Poster ‘Urapun Muy’ will be displayed at the Maitland Hockey Centre on Saturday 6th July and throughout the following NAIDOC Week as we take this opportunity to recognise the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to hockey in Maitland and the Hunter as well as in our wider Community.

As a bit of background, the National NAIDOC Week Poster Competition has been running since 1967 and each year encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists aged 16 years and over to submit their artwork reflecting that year’s theme. This year’s poster, by Samuawgadhalgal artist Deb Belyea, is entitled ‘Urapun Muy’ (from the Kalaw Kawaw Ya dialect of the Top Western Islands of the Torres Strait) and means ‘One Fire’.

Reflecting this year’s theme, ‘Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud’, it represents the shared fire of passion for the oldest living culture in the world and the sharing of cultural knowledge from one generation to the next.

Further information about NAIDOC can be found at: https://www.naidoc.org.au/

Maitland Hockey Inc will recognise NAIDOC Week on Saturday 6th July with an Acknowledgement of Country prior to each game.