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The National Trust is looking to promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural events between April and May 2014 as part of their annual Heritage Festival. It’s free to register an event and is a great way to promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Read More

Metro Screen has a wide variety of short courses for everyone from beginners to working professionals. In order to provide access to the tools for contemporary storytelling, and to empower visual storytellers from Indigenous backgrounds, Metro Screen offers Indigenous people Read More

“Bare Hands” is a new social enterprise offering an authentic Aboriginal tourism experience to the Sydney market while supporting cultural education for young Aboriginal people. Its first initiative is a fundraising day on the historic Bare Island at La Perouse Read More

The Royal Australian College of Physician’s final lecture for 2013 will be delivered by historian Barry Leithhead on Monday 25 November 2013 at the RACP Education Centre, Level 8, 52 Phillip Street, Sydney. Barry will be speaking on ‘Aboriginal health, public health Read More

Back in the early 1970s a group of pioneering Indigenous theatremakers occupied a dilapidated terrace in Redfern and started the National Black Theatre. The first full-length play they staged was Robert J Merritt’s The Cake Man. A droll examination of Read More

Aboriginal Astronomy talk by Ray Norris Let Ray Norris introduce you to Aboriginal astronomy. How did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people use the sun, moon and stars for practical and social purposes? Working closely with Indigenous elders and communities, Read More

Les Bursiill talks about the rock art of Southern Sydney. How are traditional Aboriginal Dreaming stories and rock art connected? Les Bursill is an Aboriginal man with a comprehensive understanding of the Southern Sydney Aboriginal community. With his cultural heritage Read More

Join Bill Gammage as he outlines his view of Aboriginal land management at the time of European contact. Bill argues that people used fire (and no fire) not just to create grasslands, but to distribute plants carefully and attract specific Read More

Artists talk on the Native Institute with Karla Dickens and Leanne Tobin The Native Institute was established in Blacktown in 1823, to ‘educate’ and ‘reform’ Aboriginal children during colonisation. This potent site represents the origins of the institutionalization of Aboriginal people Read More

As part of Corroboree Festival 2013, Sydney Opera House is giving you the opportunity to take an Indigenous Guided Tour around ‘tubogulle’ on the land of Gadigal, where the Opera House now resides. Discover the Indigenous history of the land Read More