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Celebrate and acknowledge Aboriginal history and culture on one of Australia’s most important historical sites with the Blacktown Native Institution. Due to the impact of recent heavy rain falls on the Blacktown Native Institution site, the Corroboree planned for Saturday 27 June Read More

Sydney Theatre Company and Allens presents a debut work from playwright Kylie Coolwell – Battle of Waterloo. Coolwell describes the play as a ‘love letter to her community’. Told with poetic realism, Battle of Waterloo centres on a community of people whose Read More

Lore: dance stories of land and sea Showing at the Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre‘s latest dance work for 2015 ‘takes a fresh look on Indigenous stories tracing the silhouette of history and drawing on a sustainable future for Read More

Artist Lynette Riley discusses her journey in researching and making the kangaroo and possum skin cloaks as well as selected other works in ochre included in the exhibition, Dhaga Ngiyanhi Ngan.Girra (Where we all meet) at the Macleay Museum, University Read More

National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is celebrated across Australia each year between 27 May and 3 June. The dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey – the anniversaries of the successful 1967 referendum and the High Court Mabo decision. Read More

Do you want to learn about Traditional and Contemporary Aboriginal Art? Do you have a creative mind that would like to paint? Redfern Community Centre offer free Aboriginal Art Gatherings fortnightly on Saturday mornings. The space is open to anyone Read More

Exhibition at the Macleay Museum 22 May – 1 August 2015 This exhibition is the result of the creative partnership between two sisters, Lynette Riley and Diane Riley-McNaboe. Their Wiradjuri/Gamilaroi heritage is anchored in their birth-place, Dubbo, in western NSW, Read More

Opening at Blacktown Arts Centre, 14 May 2015 One of Australia’s leading Aboriginal Artists, Bronwyn Bancroft, is presenting a brand new suite of artworks in Riverstones and Ramifications at Blacktown Arts Centre. The exhibition will feature stunning large-scale paintings on paper, Read More

What Do We Want? A Political History of Aboriginal Land Rights in New South Wales Panel discussion with Dr Heidi Norman, Professor Gillian Cowlishaw, Professor Tim Rowse, with participating MC, Nathan Moran, CEO of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council. Read More

Each year the Coloured Digger March is held in Redfern on Anzac Day to honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicemen and servicewomen and those who served in non-military support roles. This day of commemoration not only recognises those who served at Read More