GURINGAI FESTIVAL 26 May – 10 July 2016
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GURINGAI FESTIVAL 26 May – 10 July 2016 Through My Eyes A Celebration of Aboriginal Culture and Heritage guringaifestival.com.au 1 THE COVER Aboriginal artist Jessica Birk led a weekend workshop on site to develop designs and paint murals onto the doors of Primrose Park Arts and Craft Centre as part of the 2014 Guringai Festival. Responding to this year’s theme ‘Through My Eyes’ she will develop designs and paint a mural on Ridge Street North Sydney. See page 32 for details of the unveiling event. Jessica Birk – Matora Lane Mural Project, 2014 Primrose Park Artist Studios, Cremorne. Courtesy North Sydney Council 2 CONTENTS Welcome Message 4 About the Guringai Festival 5 Program at a Glance 6 Festival Launch 9 Events Hornsby 10 Events Hunters Hill 11 Events Ku-ring-gai 12 Events Lane Cove 16 Events Manly 20 Events Mosman 26 Events North Sydney 30 Events Pittwater 34 Events Ryde 42 Events Warringah 44 Events Willoughby 50 Acknowledgement 56 Important Dates 58 Public Artwork Acknowledgements 60 PUBLIC ART IN AVALON 3 WELCOME MESSAGE Welcome to another year of celebrating next generations. As adults we need First Australian culture and heritage in to listen and grow up our young ones the Northern Sydney region. Welcome strong! to the Guringai Festival 2016, we are Once again we have a long list of still here and we are still going strong! activities that commemorate, celebrate ‘Through My Eyes’ is this year’s and create spaces and places for those festival theme, inviting people of important conversations to be had. all ages to participate in events We invite you to come along; attend across the region, which have a a concert; film night, forum, art focus on Youth. We are promoting exhibition or bush walk, which has all intergenerational conversations, been created for you and your families activities and perspectives and when enjoyment. viewed by different people of different Sue Pinckham, Caroline Glass-Pattison and Susan Moylan-Coombs age groups, gender and races we have Once again, welcome to this years the ability to shape our future and to Guringai Festival. be inclusive of all. Public art from across Susan Moylan-Coombs, this region is throughout the brochure, Caroline Glass-Pattison and and by definition is inclusive of all and Sue Pinckham starts conversations. Co-Chairs, ‘Through My Eyes’ invites youth in the Guringai Festival Committee region to contribute to our story of place so we can be better informed about what is needed now and for the 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We acknowledge the Traditional About the Guringai Owners of the land, the Guringai peoples on whose land we now stand, Festival we pay our respects to the Elders past Founded in 2001, the Guringai Festival and present. aims to raise awareness of Aboriginal Sorry Business and Torres Strait Islander people living We would like to acknowledge the in the Northern Sydney region. The passing and contributions of those festival usually starts on Sorry Day, members of the local community who 26 May and goes through to the end are no longer with us to celebrate the of NAIDOC Week, the second week in Guringai Festival. July each year. The festival involves 11 Councils and numerous reconciliation and community groups. Events include workshops, art exhibitions, performances, films and talks. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this document/website may contain images PUBLIC ART IN NORTH SYDNEY or names of people who have since passed away. 5 MAY DATE EVENT LOCATION PAGE Sat 7 May – Sun 15 May Central Desert Art Exhibition Hunters Hill 11 Fri 13 May – Sun 26 June Nicole Foreshew Mulunma (Within, Inside) Manly 20 Mon 23 May Aboriginal ‘Hands-on’ Arts and Crafts Activities Narrabeen 34 Thur 26 May Children’s Voices for Reconciliation Lane Cove 16 Thur 26 May and every Thur to 30 June Weaving Bridges Project – Yarn to Yarn Workshops Manly 22 Fri 27 May Guringai Festival Launch Concert Macquarie University 9 Fri 27 May Constitutional Reform Forum Macquarie University 9 Fri 27 May Children’s Voices for Reconciliation Hornsby 10 Sat 28 May Aboriginal Heritage Walk Roseville 12 Sun 29 May Ku-Ring-Gai Chase Indigenous Walk Ku-Ring-Gai Chase 36 Sun 29 May A Reconciliation Church Service Thornleigh 10 Sun 29 May Commemorating National Sorry Day 2016 North Narrabeen 34 Sun 29 May Saltwater Coastal Walk Freshwater 44 Tue 31 May – Tue 28 June Digital Education Program for Primary Schools Manly 21 PUBLIC ART IN DEE WHY 6 JUNE DATE EVENT LOCATION PAGE Thur 2 June Film Screening: Spear – The Bangarra Theatre Chatswood 50 Fri 3 June Indigenous Film Festival – Mabo Mona Vale 35 Sat 4 June Narrabeen Lagoon Catchment Walk Oxford Falls 36 Sat 4 June Contemporary Bush Tucker Cooking Workshop Chatswood 51 6, 13, 20 June Weaving Bridges Project – Yarn to Yarn Workshops North Curl Curl 45 Wed 8 June Angophora Reserve Indigenous Walk Avalon 37 Thur 9 June Indigenous Film Festival – Bran Nu Dae Mona Vale 35 Sat 11 June Kelly’s Bush Walk and Talk Woolwich 11 Sat 11 June Traditional Basket Weaving with Karleen Green North Sydney 30 Sat 11 June Bushwalk in the Narrabeen Lagoon Catchment Cromer 38 Wed 15 June Cultural Heritage ‘Talk and Taste’ Mona Vale 38 Wed 15 June Putuparri and the Rainmakers Collaroy 46 Wed 15 June – Sun 3 July Miss-represent Exhibition Willoughby 51 Thur 16 June Explorers Playgroup Guringai Activity Week North Sydney 31 Thur 16 June Indigenous Film Festival – Rabbit Proof Fence Mona Vale 35 Sat 18 June Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Walk North Sydney 31 Sun 19 June Kelly’s Bush Walk and Talk Woolwich 11 Sun 19 June Warriewood Wetlands Indigenous Walk Warriewood 39 Sun 19 June Singing Up Country 2016 ‘Social Justice’ Terrey Hills 47 Sun 19 June Aboriginal Cultural Bushwalk Lane Cove North 52 Thur 23 June Ridge Street Mural Project North Sydney 32 Thur 23 June Indigenous Film Festival – The Sapphires Mona Vale 35 Sat 25 June ‘Walk and Talk’ to North Head Sanctuary Manly 24 Sat 25 June Life Drawing with Jannawi Dance Clan Willoughby 53 Sun 26 June Walk the Basin Track Ku-Ring-Gai Chase 12 Mon 27 June – Fri 1 July Dreamtime stories for Pre-schoolers Chatswood 53 7 JULY DATE EVENT LOCATION PAGE Fri 1 July Young Black and Deadly Musicians Chatswood 54 Sat 2 July Gundhay Art: Native Floristry Workshop Willoughby 55 Sat 2 July Native Bees – Installation and Discussion North Narrabeen 48 Sun 3 July – Sun 10 July NAIDOC week – Students’ Artwork Exhibition Mosman 26 Sat 2 July – Sun 10 July NAIDOC week – Mosman High School Yr 7 Collaborative Art Project Mosman 26 Mon 4 July Synergy Youth Centre Bush Tucker Cooking Lane Cove 18 Tues 5 July Aboriginal Art and Culture Day St Ives 13 Tues 5 July Aboriginal Bush Skills and Survival St Ives 13 Tues 5 July Dreamtime Stories and Art St Ives 14 Tues 5 July NAIDOC Week – Launch of the Weaving Bridges Project 2016 Manly 23 Tues 5 July Bark Painting with Chris Tobin Mona Vale 40 Wed 6 July Wuruniri with Matthew Doyle Mosman 27 Wed 6 July – Sat 30 July Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize Exhibition Lane Cove 17 Thur 7 July Life amongst the Garigal people St Ives 15 Thur 7 July Walking Cammeraygal Country Greenwich 19 Fri 8 July Kadal with Ryka Ali Mosman 27 Fri 8 July Beach Sounds Mosman 28 Fri 8 July Animals of the Dreaming Crows Nest 33 Sat 9 July Artist Talk With Nicole Monks Lane Cove 17 Mon 11 July NAIDOC Songlines –The Living Narrative of our Nation Mona Vale 40 Thur 14 July NAIDOC Week at Ryde Library – Stories and Culture Ryde 42 8 Constitutional Reform Guringai Festival Forum Launch Concert Friday 27 May, 10am-12pm Friday 27 May, 2-5pm The Atrium Macquarie University Central Courtyard Level 0 The Hub Macquarie University Free Gymnasium Rd, Macquarie University The Macquarie University Indigenous Free Student Body in conjunction with Enjoy the diverse sounds from six leading Walanga Muru and The Macquarie Law Aboriginal groups and performers. School, are presenting a public forum Launching the 16th Annual Guringai centred on the issues surrounding Festival, this Concert is a time to see the constitutional reform. difference young people do make in our Enquiries lives. A time to share and enjoy culture [email protected] through music. Bookings Also launching: Reconciliation week, eventbrite.com.au Walanga Muru Office of Indigenous Strategy, Macquarie University, and welcoming NDIS in Northern Sydney region. Pay parking on campus. Enquiries [email protected] PUBLIC ART IN MANLY 9 EVENTS IN HORNSBY Children’s Voices for A Reconciliation Reconciliation: Windigi Church Service Boojigal (‘Young Friends’ Sunday 29 May, 9.30am Thornleigh Hillcrest Uniting Church in Guringai) 1-3 Paling St, Thornleigh Friday 27 May, 10am-12pm Free Florence St, Hornsby Mall The speaker will be Rev. Garry Free Dromfield, Minister of Sylvania Uniting Free concert event celebrating National Church and Deputy Chair of the Uniting Reconciliation Week. School students Aboriginal and Islander Christian express their understanding of Congress. All welcome. reconciliation between Aboriginal and Enquiries Previous Children’s Voices for Reconciliation event non-Aboriginal Australians through Allan West 9484 5693 story, song, dance, speech, poetry or the display of artwork. Local Elders share culture and stories, and Hornsby Area Residents for Reconciliation share information. Enquiries Fallon Davis 9847 6585 [email protected] hornsby.nsw.gov.au 10 EVENTS IN HUNTERS HILL Central Desert Art Kelly’s Bush Walk and Talk Exhibition Saturday 11 June, 2-3.30pm Sunday 19 June 10.30am-12pm Saturday 7-8,11-15 May Meet at Weil Park Scout Hall Honey Ant Gallery (opposite Marist Sisters, 39 Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill 66a Woolwich Rd) Free Free Honey Ant Gallery is proud to showcase Local Aboriginal resident, Dave Bird superb quality Aboriginal Artworks will lead two walks around Kelly’s Bush from Central and Western Desert in Woolwich.