NSW Aboriginal Languages Week 2025
19 October - 26 October 2025
The third annual Aboriginal Languages Week took place from 19 to 26 October 2025 with a range of programming activities, resources and Community events across NSW to celebrate and showcase Aboriginal Languages.
The Week kicked off with the Aboriginal Languages Festival - a free, family-friendly festival for the whole community on 19 October at Carriageworks, Everleigh.
Educational and learning resources
Join the celebration and deepen your understanding of NSW Aboriginal Languages Week 2025 and Aboriginal Languages with our comprehensive range of downloadable learning resources. Perfect for schools, workplaces, and community organisations, our collection includes engaging educator presentation packs, posters and informative fact sheets.
Language Yarns
Watch these engaging roundtable discussions with Language Practitioners and the 2025 NSW Aboriginal Languages Week Ambassadors, which provided a space for truth-telling sharing and learning, highlighting their perspectives, innovations and histories with learning and teaching Languages, as well as their unique visions for their Languages into the future.
Aboriginal Languages Festival
The NSW Aboriginal Languages Festival 2025 was held on Sunday, 19 October 2025, at Carriageworks, Sydney. The festival featured a variety of activities, including music and dance performances, Language lessons, and children's activities.
Meet our 2025 Ambassadors
Two of New South Wales’ most recognised and respected Aboriginal voices, South Sydney Rabbitohs star Cody Walker and journalist Brooke Boney are front and centre as Ambassadors for NSW Aboriginal Languages Week.
Over the coming months, the Ambassadors will share their own personal Language journeys and participate in events and activities that explore celebrate Language revitalisation across NSW. Stay tuned on our socials and YouTube channel to follow along!
Let Our Voices Fly by Wonnarua artist Saretta Fielding
Let Our Voices Fly - about the 2025 theme
Let Our Voices Fly by Wonnarua artist Saretta Fielding is based on the ideas of Connect, Speak, and Fly, each representing a key part of the Language revitalisation journey:
- Connect is about knowledge sharing and collaboration between Language groups, teachers and learners, to support and nurture each other’s efforts in growing Languages together.
- Speak highlights the work of Communities speaking Language on Country and the innovative ways they are reclaiming and revitalising their Languages.
- Fly looks to the future where more Languages are being spoken and are strengthened and alive for generations to come.