Cooee Coffee Co acknowledges and respects the importance of Australia’s traditional owners and their culture.
We chose to partner with the extremely talented and inspirational Brad Hore, a proud indigenous man, an accomplished artist, athlete, two time Olympian and Commonwealth boxer, community worker, and mental health advocate to share and collaborate on Cooee Coffee Co’s journey, and connection with Australian coffee while also acknowledging and recognizing the traditional land which they are nurtured upon.
Brad Hore has created an astonishingly beautiful artwork as our business story, conveying the connection and unity between Country, Cooee Coffee Co, and the Australian coffee industry, and it proudly features on our Southern Cross Blend packaging.
“In Aboriginal culture our connection is collective. We connect as a peoples, we share as a mob, we practice our law as custodians of this land we all call Australia. We live from what our land provides us with and respect how our countries collide.
Sharing story is how we connect, we share it over coffee, over gatherings of people and food. Cooee Coffee Co carries these stories from the land to each farmer and from each plantation to pot. The 4 stories created in this painting amplify how as a collective culture we all connect in the middle, sharing what we have together. Two stories represent how different countries cultivated by different farmers creates a unique product to that land. Showing that product is produced using earth, water and hard work together. Another story shows the brand is connected to Aboriginal land with the wambuyn (kangaroo) tracks and the other shows how the sun is a life force for our peoples. It is shared by all, building and nourishing the land on which we link with others.”
Brad Hore – Dunghutti Custodian.
View the full artwork for Sharing Story
Visit Brad Hore’s Website Here: https://www.bradhoreart.com/
Cooee Coffee Co. acknowledges and pays respect to the Gubbi Gubbi people, the Traditional Custodians of Bli Bli, on which we are privileged to live, work, and play.
We further acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia, and their continuing connection to plants, foods, lands, waters, and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures and to Elders both past and present as wisdom and knowledge holders.
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