Children get NAIDOC lesson from the art

Facilitator Aaron Chatfield helps sisters Phoebe and Imogen King to paint boomerangs during NAIDOC week activities on Monday. Picture: Karleen Minney

For children, the Dreamtime Connections art workshop meant they got "their hands dirty" as they expressed their respect for Indigenous art culture. But for facilitator, local Gamilaraay man, Aaron Chatfield the event had a much deeper meaning.

Kicking off NAIDOC Week celebrations on Monday local children participated in an art workshop at Cooleman Court Shopping Centre where they learnt about First Nations art while they painted their own wooden boomerangs.