AN aboriginal storyteller has been educating youngsters as part of a project to celebrate the 2012 Olympics.
Students from Redcar Community College visited the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough to learn about international cultures.
They are working on a North-East Journeys of Discovery project, which will feed into the national Stories of the World initiative.
Students studied aboriginal objects from the Captain Cook Collection and met aboriginal elder Francis Firebrace.
Today they will take their experiences into the classroom where they will start making a cultural exhibition with Mr Firebrace, which will be used at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A former drover and stockman in the outback of New South Wales and Queensland, Mr Firebrace has spent the past 16 years travelling the world telling stories about cultural tolerance.
“Red and yellow, black and white, the earth is colour blind, and deserves the respect of all mankind,”
he said.
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