Blak Markets is set to host the National Indigenous NAIDOC Art Festival at the Overseas Passenger Terminal in The Rocks on 30 June – 1 July 2018, to kick off celebrations ahead of NAIDOC Week 2018.
Among the artists exhibiting and selling their works will be Cheryl Davison, the artist who designed the 2018 Sydney Swans Indigenous Guernsey, that tells the story of the black swan.
Held across two days, the Blak Markets NAIDOC Art Festival offers remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art centres the opportunity to promote and sell their work alongside local stallholders as part of the vibrant Blak Market program, which includes bush tucker cooking demonstrations, live music, communal weaving and painting workshops and Aboriginal dance performances.
In the spirit of this year’s NAIDOC theme “Because of her, we can!”, the two-day event program includes an all-female line-up of live music by the Stiff Ginns, Triple J Unearthed High Indigenous Initiative winner in 2017 Rebbeca Hatch, Mi-Kaisha and Maddison Lyn, with dance performances by Wagana Aboriginal Dancers and Redfern Dance, as well as bush-food cooking demonstrations from Jody Orcher of Shared Knowledge and the mother of bushfoods Auntie Beryl Van-Oploo.
The Sydney Swans are proud to work with Blak Markets, a social enterprise arm of First Hand Solutions which provides economic and professional development opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Details
What: National Indigenous NAIDOC Art Fair
Where: Overseas Passenger Terminal, The Rocks
When: Saturday, 30 June and Sunday, 1 July 10am-5pm
Entry is free.
For more information, visit www.blakmarkets.com
