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Are you doing good things in Aboriginal Education? Aboriginal Studies Association (ASA) 2014 Conference will be held on 5-6 December 2014 University of Sydney. The conference theme is Aboriginal Education: the changing face of activsm. The ASA values input from Read More

Join us at the Macleay Museum for the 2014 Being Collected Lecture and Performance. For this year’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curator series, Being Collected, Nardi Simpson will talk about her work with wax cylinder recordings and a collaborative Read More

In late 2013, the City of Sydney’s History Team has engaged Aboriginal researcher Fabri Blacklock to carry out oral history interviews with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service men and women and their families. These interviews will support the development Read More

This month’s Black Markets held on Bare Island in Kamay Botany Bay National Park on Sunday 3 August 2014 will be a relaxed winter affair where visitors can browse our markets and in the afternoon enjoy plant, artefact and history Read More

Amala Groom and Blak Douglas have collaborated to produce Lawful & Permissible, a creative response to the proposed draft Freedom of Speech (repeal of s.18c) Bill 2014. The exhibition will held 7-13 July 2014 at Damien Minton Gallery, 583 Elizabeth Read More

There will be a suite of displays at a number of the City of Sydney’s libraries focussing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture throughout NAIDOC Week and into the months of July and August 2014. The exhibitions were Read More

NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. For many years the City of Sydney has supported NAIDOC Week events within the community. For the Read More

CarriageWorks presents an exhibition, Hereby Make Protest, from 17 June through to 18 July 2014. In 1938, while Australia celebrated its sesquicentenary, Aboriginal leaders and activists rallied from across the Country to an all-Aboriginal Conference held in Australia Hall in Elizabeth Read More

In the early ’70s, Aboriginal political activism took to the stage with the first all-Indigenous theatre company, the National Black Theatre in inner-city Redfern. Against the backdrop of street protests, a group of actors and activists created a voice for Read More

Indigenous Art @IGS (30–31 May 2014) will benefit Indigenous communities from the city to the centre with over 150 Indigenous artworks and crafts from Central Australia and Regional Centres for viewing and sale. Also celebrating National Reconciliation Week, the exhibition Read More