NAIDOC Week in Bayside
National NAIDOC Week is held in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday) to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
National NAIDOC Week - 7 to 14 July 2024 - celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about First Nations cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth.
Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud
The 2024 theme is Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud.
The relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non‑Indigenous Australians needs to be based on justice, equity, and the proper recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights.
Deb Belyea, a Samuawgadhalgal artist and educator, is the winner of the prestigious National NAIDOC poster competition for 2024 with her entry, Urapun Muy, featured below.
Belyea's winning entry is titled, ‘Urapun Muy’ (pronounced Oorr-up-oon Mooy), and means ‘One Fire’ in the Kalaw Kawaw Ya (pronounced Kull-ow Koww-ow Yah) dialect.
What's on in Bayside
NAIDOC Week is a great opportunity to learn about First Nations cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth.
Sweet Country movie screening - SOLD OUT
Monday, 8 July
6:30pm - 8:30pm 199 Palace Brighton Bay, 294 Bay Street
Brighton
Join us in celebrating NAIDOC Week at Palace Cinema to watch Warwick Thornton’s classic film, Sweet Country.
Sweet Country is set in 1929 in the outback of the Northern Territory and is based on a series of true events. It is the story of a young boy called Philomac, who witnesses Sam, a First Nations stockman kill station owner Harry Marsh in self defence. Sam and his pregnant wife Lizzie go on the run while they are pursued across the outback.
Bunurong Land Council will be performing a Welcome to Country and Yidiki Ceremony prior to the screening.
Drinks and popcorn included.
Please note this event is now SOLD OUT
Megan Cope: Water is life
Bayside Gallery, Cnr Carpenter and Wilson St, Brighton
Open now until August 29
Quandamooka artist Megan Cope from Moreton Bay/North Stradbroke Island considers how art and culture can heal Country and Community in her multi-disciplinary art practice. Committed to the continuation of Indigenous cultural knowledge and revitalisation of Country, Cope investigates issues relating to colonial histories, environment and mapping practices through her site-specific sculptural installations, videos, paintings and prints.
Megan Cope: Water is life brings together a selection of Cope’s recent works that weave together Indigenous and Western histories of sites to challenge our sense of time and ownership in a settler colonial state and highlight the evolving nature of living sites as psychogeographies.
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NAIDOC Art Exhibition - Concentric Unity: Jintaka-juku
5 July 2024 to 19 July 2024 from 11:00am-05:00pm
Bayley Arts, 1 Avoca Street, Highett, Victoria
DB Fine Art Consultancy presents this dynamic Naidoc art exhibition proudly supported by Bayside City Council in partnership with Bayley Arts Gallery. This exhibition showcases a series of exceptional works which explore an artistic collaboration between the two artists Alice Nelson Napurrurla and Julian Di Stefano.
The project's title and theme “Jintaka-juku” has been chosen specifically by Warlpiri artist Alice Nelson Napurrurla. It is a Warlpiri word of multi-layered significance meaning Unity. She is proud to have developed this series of paintings for Naidoc week with the express intention of sending out a message of hope and reconciliation.
Take a walk along Bayside's Indigenous Coastal Trail
Extend your learning of Bayside’s rich Indigenous history by going on our Indigenous Coastal Trail. There’s 17km of foreshore, cliff tops and beaches to explore by foot or on a bike.
The Indigenous Trail signs and sculptures demonstrate the direct relationship Indigenous people have with the coastal environment. Art works include: The Barraimal (Emu) Constellation sculpture at Ricketts Point and The Ancient Yarra River with Bunjil’s eggs sculpture near Red Bluff, both by Glenn Romanis.
More on Bayside's Indigenous Coastal Trail
Visit Ellen José Student Reconciliation Awards exhibition
24 May – 26 July
Bayside Corporate Centre, 76 Royal Avenue Sandringham
The Ellen José Student Reconciliation Awards honour the life of Torres Strait Elder Ellen José (1951 - 2017). Ellen was a pioneer in Australia's urban Indigenous art movement and a radical activist and social justice campaigner. Her contribution to the arts and Bayside was outstanding and inspirational in raising awareness of reconciliation.
Now in their fifth year, the awards reflect Ellen Jose’s inspirational commitment to building awareness of reconciliation in Bayside and beyond.
The twenty finalist artworks are currently displayed at the Bayside Corporate Centre, 76 Royal Avenue Sandringham until 26 July 2024.
