Gai-mariagal Festival 2023

A Celebration of the Oldest Living Culture on the Planet
26th May to 9th July 2023

Festival Events 2023

'His Royal Travesty' exhibition by BLAK DOUGLAS
'His Royal Travesty'
exhibition by BLAK DOUGLAS

26 May to 10 July 2023

Aunty Time @ Synergy Youth Centre
Aunty Time @ Synergy Youth Centre  -  Youth

30 May 2023

National Reconciliation Week - Aboriginal History Talk (Mandarin)
National Reconciliation Week - Aboriginal History Talk (Mandarin)

30 May 2023

Weaving Bridges 2023
Weaving Bridges 2023 - Manly Creative Library

1 June 2023 to 23 June 2023

Children’s Voices for Reconciliation - The Canopy Lane Cove
Children’s Voices for Reconciliation - The Canopy Lane Cove

1 June 2023

National Reconciliation Week - Aboriginal History Talk

1 June 2023

Shared Voices: Walk and Yarning Circle - Longueville Park
Shared Voices: Walk and Yarning Circle - Longueville Park

2 June 2023

Weaving Bridges 2023 - Mona Vale Creative Space - Gallery
Weaving Bridges 2023 - Mona Vale Creative Space

2 June to 23 June 2023

'His Royal Travesty' exhibition by BLAK DOUGLAS
In Conversation with artist Blak Douglas

3 June 2023

National Reconciliation Week Traditional Aboriginal games event


3 June 2023

Guided Walk: National Reconciliation Week – Glades Bay Riverwalk - Session 1

4 June 2023

Guided Walk: National Reconciliation Week – Glades Bay Riverwalk - Session 2

4 June 2023

Singing Up Country 2023

4 June 2023

Aboriginal weaving workshop

5 June 2023

Koori Kinnections at Playgroup!

5 June 2023

Dot painting workshop with Jude Jarrett
Dot painting workshop with Jude Jarrett

7 June 2023

Aunty Time at Chatswood Library - 7 June 2023
Aunty Time at Chatswood Library  -  Youth

7 June 2023

Indigenous heritage presentation and bush tucker walk
Indigenous heritage presentation and bush tucker walk

08 June 2023

Midday River Walk with ‘Bush to Bowl’
Midday River Walk with ‘Bush to Bowl’

14 June 2023

Morning River Walk with ‘Bush to Bowl’
Morning River Walk with ‘Bush to Bowl’

14 June 2023

Aunty Time at Chatswood Library - 14 June 2023
Aunty Time at Chatswood Library  -  Youth

14 June 2023

Aboriginal Local History - Talk in English and Mandarin
Aboriginal Local History - Talk in English and Mandarin

16 June 2023

Taste of Indigiearth - Bush Foods and Botanicals
Taste of Indigiearth - Bush Foods & Botanicals

17 June 2023

Aunty Time for Adults
Aunty Time for Adults

20 June 2023

Aunty Time for Adults
The Redfern Story

21 June 2023

Aunty Time @ Mosman Youth Centre
Aunty Time @ Mosman Youth Centre  -  Youth

21 June to 5 July 2023

Karen Smith drawing tracks in the sand in Willoughby's Clive Park.
Gai-mariagal Festival talk with Karen Smith

22 June 2023

Aunty Time - St Ives - 22 June 2023
Aunty Time - St Ives  -  Youth

22 June 2023

Animals of the Dreaming - Lane Cove Plaza
Animals of the Dreaming - Lane Cove Plaza

24 June 2023

Aboriginal astronomy with Will Stevens
Aboriginal astronomy with Will Stevens

24 June 2023

Bhoomi - place and belonging
Bhoomi - place and belonging

24 June 2023

Virginia Keft, "Imprints of Country", 2022, raffia silk eco-printed with eucalyptus leaves found on Dharawal Country
(Re)telling: Stories of Country and Truth

24 June 2023

Aunty Time - St Ives - 27 June 2023
Aunty Time - St Ives  -  Youth

27 June 2023

Weaving Connections
Weaving Connections

29 June 2023

Truth-telling: Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Truth-telling: Contemporary Aboriginal Art

1 July 2023

Experience Bushtucker with Bush to Bowl
Experience Bushtucker with Bush to Bowl

1 July 2023

(Re)telling: Stories of Country and Truth; Curator's Tour
(Re)telling: Stories of Country and Truth; Curator's Tour

1 July 2023

Film screening of 'Ngaligumerra - We Are One'
  

2 July 2023

Film screening of 'A Voice to be Heard'
Film screening of 'A Voice to be Heard'

4 July 2023

Indigenous experience workshop for children
Indigenous experience workshop for children

04 July 2023

Mitjili Napurrula, Untitled 2, © estate of the artist, Artists Agency Ltd.
Objectified  |  Exhibition

04 July 2023

Paint your own boomerang workshop
Paint your own boomerang workshop

05 July 2023

Echidna book art for kids | 7-12yrs
Echidna book art for kids | 7-12yrs

5 July 2023

River Wander - Blackman Park, Lane Cove West
River Wander - Blackman Park, Lane Cove West

6 July 2023

Gai-mariagal preschool storytime | 3-6yrs
Gai-mariagal preschool storytime | 3-6yrs

6 July 2023

‘Kadul’ Ryka Ali
‘Kadul’ Ryka Ali - Mosman library  

6 July 2023

Weaving Bridges 2023 - Curl Curl Creative Space
Weaving Bridges - Curl Curl Creative Space

7 July 2023

Paper Plate Snakes - Mosman library
Paper Plate Snakes - Mosman library

7 July 2023

First Fridays with Koori Kinnections - Lane Cove Plaza
First Fridays with Koori Kinnections - Lane Cove Plaza

7 July 2023

Gai-mariagal preschool storytime
Gai-mariagal preschool storytime

7 July 2023

Aunty Time at Lane Cove Library - Lane Cove Library
Aunty Time at Lane Cove Library - Lane Cove Library

7 July 2023

NAIDOC week film screening: Ten Canoes
NAIDOC week film screening: Ten Canoes

8 July 2023

Gai-mariagal craftermorning for kids - 6-10yrs
Gai-mariagal craftermorning for kids - 6-10yrs

11 July 2023

Maureen Baker and family, Untitled (detail), 2003, enamel car paint on primed car bonnet. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Patrick Corrigan, 2017. Macquarie University Art Collection. Photography: Effy Alexakis, Photowrite. © Maureen Baker and family/Copyright Agency, 2019
In Conversation with Blak Douglas

15 July 2023

Gai-mariagal Festival

We acknowledge the original custodians of the land, the Gai-mariagal clans of the Northern Sydney Region.  We pay our respects to the Elders past and present.


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