STUDENTS have been enjoying the mix of activities, celebration and sense of community provided by the annual ASHEfest since 2006.
This three-day festival is an initiative of the Academy of Sport Health and Education (ASHE), where Indigenous and non-Indigenous students come together for traditional games, arts, crafts, Traditional dance, face painting, language, and storytelling.
“ASHEfest hasn’t been running for the last two years due to Covid, before then, it has been running for many years, bringing students together to share our culture and our knowledge,” said organiser, Seldan Andrews.
ASHEfest 2022 kicks off today, with prep through to grade three students participating in ‘ASHEletics,’ and students in grades four to six taking part on September 8.
ASHEletics incorporates a range of traditional games, Traditional dance, music and other activities into a cultural festival for primary school students.
The final day of festivities will bring together all secondary school students for buroinjin, a traditional game played with a ball made of animal skin. The aim of buroinjin is for a player of one team to run as far as possible with the ball and cross over the finish line at the end of the field.
More than 1,500 students from 22 schools in the region have registered for ASHEfest 2022 on Wednesday, September 7 through to Friday, September 9 at the Rumbalara FNC in Mercury Drive, Shepparton.
To RSVP or for more information, contact Seldan Andrews (Sel) on 5832 6600 or seldan.andrews@unimelb.edu.au/
