refugee narratives – Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District

A new exhibition, They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from Detention, tells the stories of people who have sought and are seeking asylum and refuge in Australia. They Cannot Take the Sky opens at the Shepparton Library, on Monday March 16th and will run until Friday 15th May.

	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District acknowledges the Yorta Yorta People of the land which comprises the Goulburn Valley. We pay respect to tribal Elders, past, present and emerging and we celebrate their continuing culture and acknowledge the memory of their ancestors.
	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District is a peak body whose mission is to promote and represent the social, cultural and economic well-being of ethnic communities in the Goulburn Valley Region through the provision of quality and innovative settlement, refugee support, community development, and information and advocacy services.