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TIM JARVIS
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WHAT IS IT?

PledgeTrek aims to raise awareness of the rich Aboriginal culture and history of the outback, mallee and coastal regions of southern Australia. Each trek will focus on a different area and ecosystem, and the people associated with them.
Funds will be raised to implement practical projects that are of lasting benefit to the Australian people and our natural environment.

Hands Across The Mallee

• requesting meetings with Aboriginal Elders from the local language groups to hear first-hand about their country and people
• asking the people he meets during his trek what reconciliation means to them
• visiting schools, hosting ecology walks and undertaking micro-bat monitoring along the route
• recording a video diary of his trek
• providing social media updates of his trek.

Hands Across The Mallee is one of several reconciliation events supported by the City of Salisbury.

WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING?
Funding is required to cover the costs of three exciting Hands Across The Mallee projects.

Project 1: Hands Across The Mallee Canvas Mural
Local Salisbury artist Raylene Snow from Marra Dreaming has begun to create a large canvas mural representing the Hands Across The Mallee journey. During the trek, Brian will visit schools and invite students and teachers to help complete the artwork by adding their hand prints to the canvas mural.

Project 2: Hands Across The Mallee Film
Adelaide based filmmaker David Wilson will run a Screen Studies training course for a group of Aboriginal students to learn film making skills. They will combine footage filmed during the Hands Across The Mallee trek with imagery obtained through further research and investigations into the cultural practices and history of the many Aboriginal language groups whose homelands this trek passes through.

The completed film and canvas mural will be available to schools as a learning resource.

Project 3: Rehabilitation of the Tappa Wodliparri Trail at Kaurna Park

Kaurna Park is a unique urban water reserve dedicated to the Kaurna community of the Adelaide Plains and Fleurieu Peninsula. The Tappa Wodliparri Trail at Kaurna Park tells the Kaurna Milky Way dreaming story about a celestial wetland through the stars in the sky. Over the years critical elements of the trail have been lost to vandalism, denying the community of a once popular and valuable learning resource. Tauondi College and Marra Dreaming will work together with Salisbury Council staff to reinterpret the story trail so that it can be redeveloped and incorporate new media technology that will minimize the potential future impact of vandalism.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?

Sponsor advertising will adorn Brian’s walking trailer for the duration of the trek and be visible on the PledgeTrek website, the PledgeTrek Facebook page and all printed Hands Across The Mallee promotional material. Sponsors will be featured in the documentary film credits and invited to a post trek dinner and film premiere.

In addition, sponsors and supporters are invited to step right into the heart of the trek by joining Brian for a group mallee walk through Danggali Conservation Park on Tuesday 22nd May.  The group walk will cover 20km over one day and will finish at Canopus Homestead.
Sponsors and supporters are also invited to celebrate the completion of the Hands across the Mallee trek and canvas mural by joining Brian, Raylene and David for the Tappa Wodliparri Reconciliation Walk through Kaurna Park at Burton in the City of Salisbury on Friday the 1st of June at 1.00pm. This event, one of a series of reconciliation events being supported by the City of Salisbury, will involve guided walks around the wetland trail, a BBQ and a commemorative planting event.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For more information about PledgeTrek, updates during the Hands Across The Mallee trek, and details of future treks as they become available or if you would like to register for a PledgeTrek event, sponsor a project or make further enquiries contact Brian directly,Please

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To make a pledge towards the projects please refer to:

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