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Fourth annual Indigenous Literacy Day today

Thousands of school children, together with hundreds of bookshops and publishers, libraries and organisations around Australia will celebrate the fourth Indigenous Literacy Day today, 1 September 2010...

Concert garners strong coverage for ILP ahead of Indigenous Literacy Day

The feedback from the Indigenous Literacy Project's Songs for Stories event held at Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday night has been ‘absolutely fantastic', event organiser Kristen Gill told the Wee...

Rein launches new early literacy program

Indigenous Literacy Day patron Therese Rein yesterday launched a new early childhood literacy program that will see sets of board books being given to all children under school age in several Indigeno...

Giveaway: win tickets to Songs for Stories!

This year's Songs for Stories concert to raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Project will feature performances from Dan Sultan and his band, Megan Washington, Goanna's Shane Howard, and many other...

ILP launches Book Buzz program in Wilcannia

The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) celebrated the launch of its Book Buzz early literacy project in the New South Wales community of Wilcannia on Tuesday 27 July. Hosted at St Therese's primar...

Songs for stories raises over $3000 in donations

A group of musicians and authors, sponsored by the Sydney Writers’ Festival and The City of Sydney performed at the Sydney Town Hall on 15 May  Over $3000 was raised for the Indigenous Lite...

In brief

Wheeler Centre opens; first event raises $20,000 for Indigenous Literacy ProjectThe Wheeler Centre officially opened on Friday night, with the Centre's first event, A Gala Night of Storytelling, raisi...

Indigenous Literacy Day 2009: $150,000 raised to date

This year's Indigenous Literacy Day, held last Wednesday 2 September to support the Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP), revealed ‘a wave of support and goodwill right around Australia', according...

Third annual Indigenous Literacy Day kicks off

Today is the third annual Indigenous Literacy Day, with fundraising events taking place around the country and many booksellers and publishers donating a percentage of their profits to the Indigenous ...

Indigenous Literacy Project: booksellers can download promotional web banners

Booksellers can download various web banners promoting the Indigenous Literacy Project ahead of the third annual Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 2 September. The Indigenous Literacy Committee int...
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