Published May 27, 2021
After the conversations around the systemic injustice towards our First Nations Australians, events need to do a much better job at recognising and spotlighting our Indigenous creatives. Cut to this year’s Afterpay Australian Fashion Week which is not only being held on the same week as National Reconciliation Week but opens with the event’s first welcome to country performance by First Nations designer
Grace Lillian Lee.
“Our practices and native landscapes have served as a great source of inspiration. Our people and our land continue to contribute to the growth and development of this nation,” Lee said in a statement.
Edith Wiggins leaves behind a storied legacy in the Chapel Hill community dailytarheel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailytarheel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
To begin its meeting on Wednesday, the Chapel Hill Town Council held a moment of silence for long-time Chapel Hill community member Edith Wiggins, who died on Sunday, April 4.
Wiggins, who retired from the council in 2005, lived in the town for decades and helped usher in many changes as an elected official and community leader. She moved to Chapel Hill for graduate school in 1962 after being raised and going to college in Greensboro. As the social worker remained in the area, she became more and more involved with community activities and assumed new roles in various organizations.
Voters elected Wiggins to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education in 1979 and she served for eight years, helping oversee changes in redistricting and enrollment. She then became even more involved with the university community, serving as the director of UNC’s Campus Y before becoming the first Black Vice Chancellor and Dean of Student Affairs in 1994.
IMG partners with First Nations Fashion Design to bring 200 years of design inspiration to AAFW
By Imogen Bailey | 1 April 2021
IMG has announced a partnership with First Nations Fashion and Design (FNFD), as part of Afterpay Australian Fashion Week (AAFW).
The deal will see IMG support Indigenous Australian designers and talent at AAFW – which will take place at Carriageworks, Sydney from May 31 to June 4 – through dedicated events and programming.
Runway shows, trade showrooms, virtual content and programming will help to bring conversations of representation and inclusion to the forefront of AAFW.
Speaking on the partnership, IMG executive director of APAC fashion events group Natalie Xenita said the organisation was proud to partner with FNFD.
PITTSFIELD â Over a dozen projects are in the running to receive a financial boost courtesy of the Community Preservation Act.
In the years since Pittsfield voters passed the act in 2016, funding requests have exceeded the amount of CPA money available, said City Planner C.J. Hoss. But this year, the $620,000 pot is enough to approve all 13 project requests, with some left over.
Past years CPA requests have come in around $1 million, give or take, Hoss said, but totaled $572,531 this year.
Hoss said the pandemic ushered in fundraising challenges and increased competition for many grants, meaning local nonprofits, which are popular requesters of CPA funds, might not have quite as many eligible projects on tap. âA lot of them arenât in a place to consider projects like they were in years past,â he said.