Australian National Maritime Museum celebrates NAIDOC week

The Australian National Maritime Museum will celebrate NAIDOC week with a program of performance, music, storytelling and art from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations.

A free program of events is on at the museum, from 8th to 10th July celebrating community and culture of Australia’s Indigenous peoples. Workshops, film screenings and live performances are on every day, with a special day of celebration on Sunday, opening with Welcome to Country and a smoking ceremony.  

Acclaimed artist Alick Tipoti - the Museum’s special guest - will be sharing his extraordinary multi-disciplinary art, film and performance. Bangarra Dance Theatre educators present a special interactive performance workshop for kids, inspired by upcoming production, Waru: Journey of the small turtle. A spectacular animation film of Alick Tipoti’s linocut prints, Malangu (from the sea), will be projected onto the roof of the museum each evening.  

Matt Poll, the Museum’s Manager of Indigenous Programs advises “the museum is proud to celebrate and share indigenous voices and cultures. It’s particularly exciting to be hosting Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait Islands artist Alick Tipoti for our NAIDOC week events, whose extraordinary Mariw Mirawal exhibition shares stories told to him by his father, about their country. I hope people will also take the opportunity to check out our new Shaped by the Sea exhibition, which takes perspectives from modern science and traditional knowledge holders to explore deep time in Australia in a new, compelling way.”

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