Come join us on November 5, 6, 7 at the 2013 Buunji National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Conference at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour. Join Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and educators from around Australia as we celebrate our identity, leadership, innovation, connections and achievements on delivering quality educational…

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative presents Bunarm Bologaman wahl Bundjalung (Brothers coming together of the Bundjalung Nation), an exhibition of new works by eight leading Bundjalung Artists, including Noel Charlie Caldwell, Luke Close, Anthony (Tule) Gordon, Burri Jerome, Gilbert Laurie, Oral Roberts, Jai Walker and Lewis Walker. This exhibition of paintings and wood sculptures is a…

Come down to the heart of Redfern for the free community even on Wednesday 30 October 2013t!  Join the stars and celebrate the Award Winning premiere of “Redfern Now” Season 2 on the big screen. Special Guest Performances by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Microwave Jenny and Frank Yamma. Bring a blanket or chair and we’ll provide the food.…

As part of the Corroborree Festival, larger-than-life images of Aboriginal women will be projected onto the 20-metre façade of the Australian Museum to celebrate the importance of Sydney’s Aboriginal history and culture. The wall on William Street will be transformed by stills from an original film work, ‘belong to all yet to none 3 2012’,…

Presented by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), award-winning Australian Aboriginal author and speaker Melissa Lucashenko will deliver the prestigious Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture in 2013. The lecture will be held on Thursday 17 October 2013 at 6pm at the Metcalfe Auditorium, State LIbrary of NSW. There is no change but bookings must be made…

The National Film and Sound Archive’s Black Screen program promotes cultural awareness and Indigenous screen culture, provides entertainment to communities and brings them together in discussion. It supports the industry by showcasing Australia’s Indigenous talent on and off screen. Black Screen’s DVDs of contemporary Indigenous Australian films are available to individuals and organisations free of charge to individuals…

‘String theory’ is a scientific term that speculates on the theory of everything. In this exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (16 August-27 October 2013 ), it is taken to mean the open-ended expansion and connections of ideas, stories and techniques. Visit the exhibition to see extraordinary pieces from a diverse range of Aboriginal…

Come join us on November 5, 6, 7 at the 2013 Buunji National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Conference at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour. Join Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and educators from around Australia as we celebrate our identity, leadership, innovation, connections and achievements on delivering quality educational…

Manly Art Gallery & Museum and guest curator Keith Vincent Smith have assembled a fascinating exhibition of watercolours, engravings, drawings, artefacts and other objects documenting the ‘first encounters’ between English settlers and the Gamaragal, the Aboriginal people who lived at what is now Manly and Northern Sydney, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ‘Gamaragal…

Discover the history and culture of Aboriginal Sydney with these new self-guided audio-supported tours developed by Aboriginal Studies Press. The tours cover heritage and rock art sites, as well as contemporary Australian Indigenous places of significance. From the edges of Sydney Harbour and the city’s museums and art galleries to Kuring-Gai National Park in the…

The Native Institute Exhibition is at Blacktown Arts Centre from 5 July to 21 September 2013. On a prominent and busy intersection where Rooty Hill Road North meets Richmond Road, a bare site is protected by cyclone fencing and a small lock.  Beyond the grassy surrounds the landscape is typical of Western Sydney’s urban sprawl.…

Paul Irish talks about his research on Aboriginal urban communities in Sydney and the origins of the Aborigines Protection Board on Friday 13 September 2013 at History House, 133 Macqurie Street, Sydney at 5-7pm. In the late 1870s Aboriginal people from south coast NSW and elsewhere re-entered Sydney, colonising the Government Boat Shed at Bennelong Point, and establishing…

This Fella, My Memory is the latest new work produced by Moogahlin Performing Arts with cultural consultants Aboriginal Elders Aunty Christine Blakeney and Uncle Max (Dulumunmun) Harrison. This brand new work celebrates the lives of three older women and their tenuous relationships with their friends, family and each other; ultimately leading to an enduring connection…

Musica Viva teams up with the students of the NAISDA Dance College to create a showcase of new music, dance and storytelling at Glebe Library on Wednesday 28 August 2013 at 8pm. Thousands of years ago out of the Dreamtime came the Dreamings. Listen, they say, listen to the Ancestor Spirits and tell our stories…

Hidden Gems is an international symposium that will explore the role  of libraries and  archives in the  revitalisation of Indigenous languages and culture. It will be held on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 August 2013 in the Metcalfe Auditorium at the State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street Sydney. The Hidden Gems symposium will bring together…

The Art Gallery of NSW is showcasing works from four of Brenda L Croft’s major photographic series, highlighting her family, friends and Indigenous community members. Brenda L Croft is a Gurindji/Malngin/Mudpurra artist, curator and academic. Born in Perth in 1964, and having lived in many parts of Australia and overseas, she now lives and works…

‘The Story Project’ tells the story of the first Aboriginal Legal Service in Australia, following its path from its beginning to where we are today. It is not one story, but many – told in the voices of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people who worked together to achieve greater justice for our people. The Story Project…

John William Lindt’s 1870s photographs of Aboriginal people in the Clarence Valley became the most widely distributed images of Aboriginal people in the 19th century. In 2004 the Cullen family purchased an album of the photographs at auction in London and donated it to the Grafton Regional Gallery. They wanted to restore some dignity to…

For 20 years Gadigal Information Service (incorporating Koori Radio 93.7FM) has been broadcasting the news and views of Aboriginal Australia from its home in Redfern. From Keating’s Redfern Speech to The Apology; from the Redfern riots to Mabo’s victory and the ongoing life of The Block, all the iconic moments have been captured from the…

Surry Hills Library will be displaying a collection of Torres Strait Islander prints from 1 July, as part of NAIDOC Week, through to 31 August 2013. The last two decades have seen printmaking become one of the most recognisable and respected visual forms of cultural expression by Torres Strait Island (Zenadh Kes) artists. Pioneered in…