NAIDOC Week at Fed Square

The annual VIC NAIDOC Flag Raising Ceremony officially marks the beginning of NAIDOC Week in Victoria. It brings members of the community together to publicly commemorate the importance of NAIDOC week.

Experience the power of storytelling and celebrate First Peoples culture at the Koorie Youth Film Festival. The winning films will be shown on the Big Screen at Fed Square during NAIDOC Week.

Enjoy this free, inclusive event, with a stellar line-up on the main stage including Briggs and The Deans of Soul, bring the family for arts and crafts, shop at a makers’ market and enjoy delicious food at NAIDOC in the City following the NAIDOC march.

KHT is partnering with Aboriginal Melbourne, City of Melbourne and Fed Square to present a First Peoples Market of over 25 stalls, showcasing art, craft, design, fashion and more – as well as free workshops facilitated by First Peoples creatives.

Join Jasmine-Skye in this free workshop to make a beautiful, small eagle to represent Bunjil.  Bunjil is a Creator Spirit and Ancestral Being that takes the form of the Wedge-Tail Eagle to some of the people of the Kulin Nations.  You’ll get to learn about the story of Bunjil and then use natural materials to craft your own bird to take home.  This workshop is Mob and Ally-friendly.

As part of NAIDOC 2024, mob are invited to join Jasmine-Skye in a free workshop to make a small scale marngrook from possum pelt.  You’ll be guided through the techniques to create a satisfying cultural object to take home.

This will be a culturally safe space to learn, make, share and connect.  All materials and tools will be provided.  This workshop is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People only.

Families and children of all ages can celebrate NAIDOC Week and join KHT and NGV to journey across Fed Square in this tour visiting both galleries. Start the morning off at NGV where you will join NGV Curator of First Nations Art, Michael Gentle and Wadawurrung artist Deanne Gilson to explore First Nations artworks in the NGV Collection. Then head over to KHT to discover artworks by the late Josh Muir as part of the soon-to-end exhibition JXSH MVIR FOREVER I LIVE before learning about some of the important cultural objects in KHT’s Collection. End the tour with an afternoon tea at Koorie Heritage Trust where you will be free to explore the NAIDOC Market and make yourself a Deadly Bracelet or paint a gum leaf.

Free, but bookings are required.

From Boorloo to the misty scrub of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country, ACMI’s NAIDOC Week film program presents six short films on Blak resilience and excellence.

On Wednesday 10 July, we’re inviting First Nations Elders and carers from Aboriginal Community Elders Services (ACES) to ACMI for a special visit.

If you are a First Nations Elder and would like to attend, please contact Gavin Somers via email at gavin.somers@acmi.net.au or call us (03) 8663 2200.

Join Wurundjeri Elder, Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO for a Welcome to Country on the Ground Level of NGV Australia to begin NAIDOC Week NGV Celebrations. Stay to listen to Aunty Joy read her children’s picture book Welcome to Country.

A drop by art-making activity for all ages led by Wadawurrung artist Deanne Gilson. Visitors can join Deanne and her niece Indigo Harrison in the foyer for a workshop focusing on the flight of the Bogong moth.

Emersed amongst artworks from Wurrdha Marra, join NGV Australia inside the exhibition for a performance of Kulin songs and dance choregraphed by Amos Roach and performed by The Murrundaya Yepengna Dance Troupe.

The Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions is a biennial mentorship and exhibition program that pairs emerging Australian First Nations artists and designers with an esteemed industry mentor across each state and territory.

Over the past year, artists involved in the commission and mentorship program have used the opportunity to expand or refine their artistic paths. Sophie Honess, a Gomeroi Yinarr artist residing and creating on Gamilaroi Country in Tamworth, New South Wales, embraced the task of interpreting her ancestral land through her textile and weaving artistry. Her latest endeavor involved working with wool to create her most ambitious piece yet.

Join NGV Curators Michael Gentle and Sophie Gerhard as they guide visitors on a journey through NGV’s Australian art collection.

Traditionally the Australian Art Galleries at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia have opened with the story of British arrival. Recently the Collection has been reimagined with the inclusion of historical and contemporary First Nations art in each Gallery space, commemorating 65,000 years of continued First Nations artistic and cultural practice.

In this this tour gain a fresh perspective on Australian art as the Curator’s delve into the Australian Art Collection through the lens of colonisation and First Peoples perspectives. Together, the curators will shine a light on the longer histories behind some of Australia’s most beloved artworks, situating them within the rich and complex stories that make up this country.

Dig Deeper into the lives and creative practices of four First Nations artists in this thought-provoking documentary, screened especially for NAIDOC Week.