Bangarra Dance Theatre: Ochres

First performed in 1995, Bangarra Dance Theatre‘s Ochres returns to the stage this year for its 21st anniversary. Ochres became the watershed production for the company as it led to sell out shows around Australia and introduced Bangarra to the Read More

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107 Presents: Culture and Conversation

When was the last time you had a yarn around a fire under the stars in Redfern? YARN & Sixty Thousand are curating two nights of music, art, poetry and stories by local elders, to bring people together in a Read More

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Thithuyil: Navigating with the Rhythm of the Stars

Brian Robinson is a multi-skilled contemporary artist, whose practice includes painting, printmaking, sculpture and design. The graphic style in his practice combines his Torres Strait Islander heritage with a strong passion for experimentation, both in theoretical approach and medium, as Read More

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Deadly Minds: Mental Health Month

During Mental Health month, Youthblock and Redfern Community Centre will host Deadly Minds on Saturday 10 October from 12pm – 3pm. There will be a range of activities and information on the day to raise awareness and promote good mental Read More

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Jonathan Jones at Carriageworks

A member of the Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi nations of south-east Australia, Jonathan Jones employs an array of materials and techniques in his work to explore Indigenous cultural forms and their continuity and manifestation through history into the present moment. Jones’ Read More

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Freedom Ride ‘65

This exhibition at the State Library of NSW – Freedom Ride ‘65: unpublished photos from the Tribune archive –  takes a fresh look at this iconic moment in Australian history, when a busload of students from the University of Sydney Read More

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Monument to the Eora

As part of the Eora Journey, the City of Sydney is currently inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to submit proposals for a major public artwork to honour the Eora, the Aboriginal people of Sydney, and to recognise the Read More

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Redfern Groove

This September, Sydney Fringe is proud to present an APRA AMCOS sponsored event with Redfern Community Centre. Redfern will play host to a day full of music, culture and coming together, not just FOR the community, but also WITH their Read More

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Black diggers: patriots or political activists?

In recent years, the experience of Aboriginal soldiers in the First World War has been subsumed into the nationalist grand narrative of the Anzac legend. However, as Wesley Enoch’s theatre production Black Diggers has recently shown, Aboriginal military service in Read More

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Indigenous Literacy Day 2015

Hear from well-known Indigenous authors about their love of the written word and participate in the Great Book Swap Challenge to help raise funds to increase literacy levels of Indigenous children in remote and regional Australia. Join Author, Linguist and Read More

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