Activities to celebrate this NAIDOC Week from Yagan Square to Perth Cultural Centre
From Northbridge to the Perth CBD, the event calendar is full of activities to celebrate NAIDOC Week until 12th July.
This year’s theme, Fifty Years Deadly, is being celebrated at key cultural centres in and around Boorloo (Perth) with a showcase of artists’ works.
Here are a few, including year-round installations at Yagan Square and WA Museum Boola Bardip, to celebrate and recognise Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people’s history, stories and culture:
WA Museum Boola Bardip
Introduce your little ones to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories at the weekly Aboriginal Storytime, held every Thursday from 10.30am to 11am in the Ngalang Koort Boodja Wirn (Our heart, Country, spirit) gallery.
For all ages, every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 1pm to 2pm, the Boola Bardip Aboriginal Tour showcases the diverse culture and spirituality of Western Australia’s First Nations peoples.
From Boola Bardip take a short walk down William Street to Yagan Square.
(image: WA Museum Boola Bardip Facebook)
Yagan Square
See artists’ works shining bright on the Yagan Square Digital Tower and projected through Yagan Square until 26 July as part of Yagan’s Square’s collaboration with Kings Park and Lightscape.
Nyikina/Walmajarri Artist Lynley Nargoodah explores themes of bush medicine, bush foods and stories from the Fitzroy River, while Rubibi (Broome)-based artist Tiahna Oxenham draws inspiration from the wire weed seagrass of Shark Bay.
In the Yagan Square Amphitheatre, listen to the sounds and stories of Ngaank-Boodja, created by award-winning Noongar producer and artist Karla Hart. This six-piece series is a soundscape of voices, songs and stories of women's Country, sharing knowledge of culture, tradition and connection to place.
Audio stories are played on the hour from Monday to Sunday, 7am to 6pm.
ECU City Campus
Take in a program of art and interviews from the digital façade of the ECU City Campus to the Forum screen inside the main foyer.
Until 10 July, program highlights include a 50 Years of Deadly Poster Exhibition, showcasing iconic posters from across five decades of NAIDOC Week, tracing the movement's history from the 1970s until today.
Watch and listen to Look To See by Wiradjuri-Scottish woman of the Galari / Kalari peoples, April Philips, with an interview about her creative practice.
Access this program at the main entry of the ECU City Campus from 8am to 6pm, until 12 July.
