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Heaps Decent acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, culture and community. We pay our respects to elders past, present and future.

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Heaps Decent is an initiative committed to finding and nurturing the creativity of underprivileged and Indigenous young people and emerging artists. By providing resources and opportunities, Heaps Decent supports the development of high quality Australian music with a unique identity.

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    TUNED IN: NSW Reconciliation Council are throwing a party with KOOLISM, BRIGGS, THE LAST KINECTION, TUKA, STUNNA SET and RAISING MONEY FOR HEAPS DECENT! Reconciliation Week is about bringing everyone together, so the amazing folk at NSW Reconciliation Council are getting the best of Indigenous and non-Indigenous hip hop and creating a party to raise money for HEAPS DECENT workshops in Juvenile Justice Centres.Incarceration rates for Indigenous young people are currently 28 times higher than non-Indigenous people of the same age!!! Here’s a great opportunity for you to be part of the solution to this problem while havin a good time/shakin your groove thang/cut a rug/get crunk/electric boogaloo/sendin out a signal/gettin jiggy with it, and partaking in all other hip hop cultural references…There’ll be a bunch of DJ’s and other ‘spesh’ things goin on. Tickets are $10, you can get them HERE.

    TUNED IN:

    NSW Reconciliation Council are throwing a party with KOOLISM, BRIGGS, THE LAST KINECTION, TUKA, STUNNA SET and RAISING MONEY FOR HEAPS DECENT!

    Reconciliation Week is about bringing everyone together, so the amazing folk at NSW Reconciliation Council are getting the best of Indigenous and non-Indigenous hip hop and creating a party to raise money for HEAPS DECENT workshops in Juvenile Justice Centres.

    Incarceration rates for Indigenous young people are currently 28 times higher than non-Indigenous people of the same age!!! Here’s a great opportunity for you to be part of the solution to this problem while havin a good time/shakin your groove thang/cut a rug/get crunk/electric boogaloo/sendin out a signal/gettin jiggy with it, and partaking in all other hip hop cultural references…

    There’ll be a bunch of DJ’s and other ‘spesh’ things goin on. Tickets are $10, you can get them HERE.


    May 9

    YOU PLUS ME EQUALS US: STORIES OF RECONCILIATION The NSW Reconciliation Council is launching their publication this week. You Plus Me Equals Us comprises eleven stories of experiences and topics ranging from the Stolen Generation to contemporary art. The NSW Reconciliation Council are having a launch on Friday night at Gleebooks in Glebe so get along and snap yourself up a copy. The numbers for the launch are strictly limited, so make sure you RSVP over here.

    YOU PLUS ME EQUALS US: STORIES OF RECONCILIATION

    The NSW Reconciliation Council is launching their publication this week. You Plus Me Equals Us comprises eleven stories of experiences and topics ranging from the Stolen Generation to contemporary art.

    The NSW Reconciliation Council are having a launch on Friday night at Gleebooks in Glebe so get along and snap yourself up a copy. The numbers for the launch are strictly limited, so make sure you RSVP over here.


    Oct 26


    In May we attended the NSW Reconciliation Council’s Reconciliation Week Challenge, where Paige Lagettie performed her major prize winning song “Don’t Look Down”. As the major prize, Paige won a recording session at Gadigal Studios, a state of the art recording studio space.

    Levins was asked to say a few words and we also saw the Revesby South Public School sing the National Anthem in Dharawal, the language and clan of then traditional owners of the land south of the Georges River.

    Check out the videos and if you missed it, you can download Paige Lagettie - “Don’t Look Down” here.


    Jun 22

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    Here’s the finished product from our star Paige Lagettie - “Don’t Look Down”! Thanks again to all involved in this great project for the NSW Reconciliation Council, especially Paige and Adam Bozzetto

    You can download the tune here


    Jun 1

    As this week is Reconciliation Week and the 10 year anniversary of the Reconciliation Bridge Walk, the New South Wales Reconciliation Council held a Schools Reconciliation Challenge to raise awareness of the concept of Reconciliation amongst young people. Yesterday, some of the Heaps Decent crew headed down to their Awards Ceremony where we were privileged to experience a fantastic choir performance by Revesby South Public School students and Major Award winner Paige Lagettie’s stellar performance of her Major Award winning song! (You can check out her track in the video below..)

    As this week is Reconciliation Week and the 10 year anniversary of the Reconciliation Bridge Walk, the New South Wales Reconciliation Council held a Schools Reconciliation Challenge to raise awareness of the concept of Reconciliation amongst young people. Yesterday, some of the Heaps Decent crew headed down to their Awards Ceremony where we were privileged to experience a fantastic choir performance by Revesby South Public School students and Major Award winner Paige Lagettie’s stellar performance of her Major Award winning song! (You can check out her track in the video below..)


    May 27


    Heaps Decent spent the day recording with Paige Lagettie last week. Paige wrote “Don’t Look Down”, the song that won the Schools Reconciliation Challenge run by the New South Wales Reconciliation Council this year.

    The song you can hear was produced by Adam Bozzetto for Heaps Decent. You’ll be able to hear the finished song later this week, we’re really proud of Paige for making it sound so great!

    Thanks to Paige and her Dad for coming to record with us, to Gadigal for providing us with somewhere to record, to Ben for engineering, to Adam Bozzetto for the great beat and to Julian and Leanne from NSW Reconciliation Council for putting the awesome project together!


    May 25

    HEAPS DECENT PROJECT PARTNERSThe New South Wales Reconciliation Council With over 2000 members, the New South Wales Reconciliation Council is the peak reconciliation body in NSW. Carrying on the work of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991-2000), The NSW Reconciliation Council works with reconciliation councils in other states, government agencies and other organisations to advance reconciliation and Indigenous social justice in their regions.Heaps Decent and NSW Reconciliation Council are currently planning a songs and poetry workshop project for schools in 2010.

    HEAPS DECENT PROJECT PARTNERS
    The New South Wales Reconciliation Council

    With over 2000 members, the New South Wales Reconciliation Council is the peak reconciliation body in NSW. Carrying on the work of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991-2000), The NSW Reconciliation Council works with reconciliation councils in other states, government agencies and other organisations to advance reconciliation and Indigenous social justice in their regions.

    Heaps Decent and NSW Reconciliation Council are currently planning a songs and poetry workshop project for schools in 2010.


    Sep 15