Past Event

NAIDOC Week at the Maritime Museum

Celebrate NAIDOC Week 2023 with a Family Fun Day, honouring the theme – For Our Elders at the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Celebrate the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth, exploring stories and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with a big day out of culture tours, performance and art.

Celebrate NAIDOC Week 2023 with a Family Fun Day, honouring the theme – For Our Elders at the Australian National Maritime Museum.

The day will begin with a smoking ceremony, Welcome to Country with didjeridoo performed by musician and composer Matthew Doyle at 10am, followed by tours, and drop-in art and craft workshops all day.

TOURS

  • Tour The Harbour: Discover sites of significance for Gadigal people of the Eora nation throughout time, guided by the Museum’s Indigenous Curator, Tyson Frigo, aboard an historic Rosman Ferry.
  • Shaped By the Sea Guided Exhibition Tour: Explorr Deep Time knowledges, artworks and installations - including work from the internationally-acclaimed Mulka Project with Indigenous Programs Manager Matt Poll

Tours run throughout the day and can be booked on entry

WORKSHOPS

  •  Weaving Workshops: With celebrated artists, Casino Wake Up Time (Bundjalung and Kamilaroi) demonstrate the collective’s collaborative, hands-on crafting process, using harvested fibres to create usable objects and art.
  • Goanna Hut Food Demonstrations: Indigenous food company bring food demonstrations and bush tea tastings, taking place waterside.

ARTS & CULTURE

  • Song and dance performances from women’s culture and educational ensemble, Djaadjawan Dancers (Yuin) share women’s stories from the south coast of NSW, and the museum’s newly-opened Bamal space hosts storytelling sessions throughout the day.
  • Film screenings run all day in the museum’s Theatre, including Sea Country, an exploration of Tasmania’s unique, stark Great Southern Reef and the big issues facing these waters and custodians.
NAIDOC Week at the Maritime Museum
02
Jul
When

Sunday 2nd July

Where

2 Murray St, Sydney NSW 2000

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Price

FREE

Map, showing NAIDOC Week at the Maritime Museum