Eleven Ways to Celebrate NAIDOC Week

NAIDOC Week will be held across the country from July 6-13. This year marks a powerful milestone: 50 years of honouring and elevating First Nations voices, culture, and resilience. In celebration of the 2025 NAIDOC theme “The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy", we are sharing 10 ways to take part this NAIDOC week – at home, in the classroom and beyond.

1. Head to a NAIDOC event near you.
2. Read a poem by a young First Nations student — reflect on the words of the next generation.
3. Check out our 2023 NAIDOC resource which contains information on NAIDOC and loads of relevant poetry and writing prompts for the classroom. There is also the Australians Together resource for even more classroom activities.
4. Think about this year’s NAIDOC week theme and how we can look to the next generation and the bright future ahead — Discuss in class.
5. Read Red Room Poetry’s Truth and Reconciliation Pledge.
6. Make a list of the ways you can honour and contribute to this year's theme by creating your own pledge.
7. Read Kirli Saunders’ tips on working respectfully with your local Aboriginal communities in our new Poem Forest Learning Resource (p.23).
8. Read a poem by a First Nations poet from our archive.
9. Connect to non-human kin by Listening to Whales or heading to a headland near you to watch their migration
10. Sign up for a Shifting Ground workshop and become empowered to think, talk and act on issues of culture and race.
11. Make a donation to support our Poetry in First Languages Baraya Barray - Whale Song program, which connects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids with their Traditional languages through poetry.