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The event, Busking for Change, was initiated by Pyke with all proceeds going to the Indigenous Literacy Project, which raises money to help address the literacy crisis in remote indigenous communities.

“By Year 7 schooling, only one in five indigenous children from remote communities can read and write at the accepted minimum standard. This is a massive problem which can be quantifiably changed by the programs run by the Indigenous Literacy Project,” Pyke said. “To me, a decent level of literacy is really the cornerstone to being able to choose what type of life you want. If you can read and write and communicate with words, your world is opened up to further education, different creative pursuits, or just the escapism of reading a really good book at the end of a hard day at work. Being literate helps you put yourself in the context of the greater world that you live in.”

Pyke will play a solo set at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney on September 2, alongside other guest performers who’ll be announced soon.

Tickets are available online from this Monday, August 10. 

The Indigenous Literacy Project is a partnership between The Australian Book Industry and The Fred Hollows Foundation.

Source: Eleven Magazine

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