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  • SOUTHEAST Aboriginal Arts Market 2021

    SOUTHEAST Aboriginal Arts Market 2021

    SOUTHEAST Aboriginal Arts Market returns to Carriageworks as an online market for four days from 25-28 Nov 2021. Curated by Hetti Perkins (Arrernte and Kalkadoon) and Jonathan Jones (Wiradjuri and…

  • Connecting with Country: First Nations Speaker Series

    Connecting with Country: First Nations Speaker Series

    First Nations peoples have been caring for Country for more than 65,000 years, long before European intervention. How can we learn from this knowledge and experience by collaborating in our…

  • First Nations Collectors

    First Nations Collectors

    In this event on First Nations Collectors, presented by the State Library of NSW,  Melissa Jackson will look at the importance of collecting materials that document and celebrate the lives…

  • Yananurala

    Yananurala

    Yananurala is the new name for a walk that will share Aboriginal perspectives of place through artworks and installations along the Sydney Harbour foreshore. The 9km curated walk along Sydney…

  • Indigenous Science Experience at Redfern

    Indigenous Science Experience at Redfern

    What can Aboriginal astronomy tell us about the night sky? How is our native flora used in bush medicine? How do Indigenous Australians make axes from stone? What can we…

  • NAIDOC in the City 2021 Livestream

    NAIDOC in the City 2021 Livestream

    NAIDOC in the City 2021 is proudly presented by First Nations people in partnership with the City of Sydney. Public health restrictions and stay at home orders have changed the…

  • UNSETTLED exhibition at the Australian Museum 2021

    UNSETTLED exhibition at the Australian Museum 2021

    This land was not peacefully settled. The exhibition Unsettled at the Australian Museum uncovers the untold histories behind this nation’s foundation story. In this powerful exhibition, First Nations voices reveal…

  • First Nations Wikipedia edit-a-thon 2021

    First Nations Wikipedia edit-a-thon 2021

    Everyone is welcome to join our Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Redfern Community Centre. It will be led by Kirsten Thorpe, Nathan “Mudyi” Sentance, and experienced Wikipedia editors Toby Hudson and Caddie Brain.…

  • Reconciliation Week 2021

    Reconciliation Week 2021

    National Reconciliation Week runs from Thursday 27 May until 3 June 2021. This year the theme is ‘More than a Word. Reconciliation takes Action.’ Read more about Reconciliation Week here:…

  • Indigenous Voices in Documentary

    Indigenous Voices in Documentary

    A journalist returns to his hometown to revive the memory of the civil rights movement. Two mathematicians reveal the nuanced and advanced mathematics that underpin kinship systems. And a filmmaker…

  • Yabun 2021: Join the livestream!

    Yabun 2021: Join the livestream!

    Yabun Festival is the largest one day celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in Australia. It takes place on 26 January. Due to COVID-19 and related crowd restrictions…

  • SouthEast Aboriginal Arts Market 2020

    SouthEast Aboriginal Arts Market 2020

    Curated by Hetti Perkins and Jonathan Jones, the SouthEast Aboriginal Arts Market will be held exclusively as an online market from 26 to 29 November 2020. Presented by Carriageworks. The…

  • NAIDOC in the city 2020 online

    NAIDOC in the city 2020 online

    This year NAIDOC Week will be online. The 2020 theme ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’ recognises that First Nations peoples have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000…

  • Stargazing at the AGNSW

    Stargazing at the AGNSW

    Astrophysicist Kirsten Banks joins journalist Jan Fran to explore the constellations present in our night sky and in the art featured in the Under the Stars exhibition at the Art Gallery…

  • Eight Days in Kamay

    Eight Days in Kamay

    In April 1770, strangers onboard the Endeavour appeared off the shores of Kamay (Botany Bay). This new exhibition at the State Library of NSW explores the eight days that followed…

  • Black Stories Matter: Does the Media Fail Aboriginal political aspirations?

    Black Stories Matter: Does the Media Fail Aboriginal political aspirations?

    You’re invited to join ‘Black Stories Matter’, a 4-part webinar series bringing together media researchers, historians, former policy makers and members of the growing cohort of Aboriginal journalists whose work is disrupting the…

  • Finding your ancestors: Research Family History in NSW

    Finding your ancestors: Research Family History in NSW

    Finding Your Ancestors is a new project designed to encourage and help members of the Aboriginal community to take the first steps into researching family history. Most Aboriginal people are…

  • WARAMI Festival 2020

    WARAMI Festival 2020

    Celebrate Indigenous culture online with City of Parramatta’s vibrant online WARAMI festival until 5 July 2020. Enjoy fun, educational and interactive online activities, from a virtual welcome and smoking ceremony,…

  • Talking Deadly with Travis De Vries

    Talking Deadly with Travis De Vries

    This year marks the 250th anniversary of Cook’s arrival in Kamay (Botany Bay). Many Australians today can recite the story of this historic event, but our perspectives on the figure at the centre of it differ greatly. For…

  • City of Sydney grants in response to Covid-19

    City of Sydney grants in response to Covid-19

    The City of Sydney has launched 5 new grants to support businesses, artists and not-for-profits affected by Covid-19. The grants have been designed to complement State and Federal funding. The…

  • First Nations Wikipedia edit-a-thon 2020

    First Nations Wikipedia edit-a-thon 2020

    On Saturday 21 March 2020, City of Sydney Library is hosting a First Nations Wikipedia editathon at Redfern Community Centre Lawn Library to increase and improve content relevant to Aboriginal…

  • Yabun 2020

    Yabun 2020

    Resist invasion, celebrate survival and continue culture at the Yabun Festival on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people at Victoria Park on Sunday 26 January 2020. Yabun is a…

  • Living Language: Country, Culture, Community

    Living Language: Country, Culture, Community

    Marking the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages, the exhibition Living Language: Country, Culture, Community at the State Library of NSW builds on the Library’s historical collections with stories of…

  • Knowledge Ground 2019

    Knowledge Ground 2019

    Knowledge Ground: 30 years of sixty five thousand is a free immersive installation experience celebrating the 30th anniversary of Bangarra Dance Theatre. Navigate a series of thematic worlds, created using unique…

  • SOUTHEAST Aboriginal Arts Market 2019

    SOUTHEAST Aboriginal Arts Market 2019

    Curated by Hetti Perkins and Jonathan Jones, the SOUTHEAST Aboriginal Arts Market brings together artists and collectives from regional and coastal New South Wales, ACT, southern Victoria, the Murray basin…