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Opening of new Melbourne library, narrm ngarrgu, and return of Koorie Heritage Trust

Melbourne's first new library in almost a decade opens and the renovated Koorie Heritage Trust centre returns.

BlakDance. Black and white photo featuring five dancers in various movements in a circle with a spotlight shined on them. The photo is taken from bird’s eye view. Dance.
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Powerful collaboration drives dance residency

First Collective Residencies by Australasian Dance Collective and BlakDance will run for two years with eight First Nations resident choreographers.

Large-scale mural, Mooroop Yarkeen, by Tommy Day revealed. Photo: Supplied.
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New First Nations mural centres hope and community

A vibrant 41-metre high mural by Tom Day (aka Jirri Jirri) will be unveiled this week.

Fashion. Five First Nations people sit on an outcrop of rocks in black T shirts and wearing or displaying a range of handmade fashion accessories.
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The trajectory of remote First Nations fashion

First Nations fashion, from remote Australia, takes wearable art to city streets. Involvement in the sector has the potential for…

Milbi Festival. image is from ‘Wajgan’s Return’ at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, a range of artworks covering a white wall of a gallery.
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Returning to Country and supporting regional arts

First Nations artists Gordon Hookey, Ivy Minniecon and curator Angelina Hurley speak about their participation in Bundaberg’s annual Milbi Festival…

Song Circle. Image is five First Nations musicians standing and sitting on stage, four men, one woman and some guitars.
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Performance review: Song Circle, QPAC

An emotional evening of Australian stories from First Nations legends of music.

CALD. Image is of a large group of people some standing, some sitting on the ground, from Sweatshop, a Western Sydney-based literary movement.
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CALD, CARM and collected: fostering the future artists of Australia

Leaders of Australia’s foremost arts companies run by and with culturally and linguistically diverse young people, speak about their role…

What art ought to be. Image is of four people sitting on a stage in front of an audience, in conversation. On the left a woman of Asian appearance, with long dark hair, on her right a woman of Aboriginal appearance in grey and on her right a Caucasian man in black with long grey hair - and they are all looking at a woman on the far right in colourful crocheted attire.
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What art ought to be through practice and engagement

Key topics raised at the recent Sydney Ideas talk on the importance of art in uncovering stories, connecting cultures, and…

Mob Image: Shutterstock. Illustration of two black side profiles against a green background. One figure has its eyes covered and another has its mouth covered.
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Are you an imposter?

Mob are allowed to ask respectful questions about where you come from and who your people are. This is so…

Melanie Hava. Image is a long painting stretching round three black walls. Painting is of colourful tropical Far North Queensland rainforest.
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Exhibition review: Melanie Hava: Bugan Mungan, Cairns Art Gallery

A must-see nine-metre long painting by one of Tropical North Queensland’s celebrated artists.

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