
Cooking workshop with Dayaa School and Kitchen
16 August, 11 am to 1 pmJoin us for a morning of cooking, snacking and storytelling with Siham and Justine of Dayaa School and Kitchen.
Bayadyinyang budyari Dharug yiyura Dharug Ngurra.
Bayady’u budyari Dharug Warunggadgu baranyiin barribugu.
Bayady’u budyari wagulgu yiyuragu Ngurra bimalgu Blacktown City. Flannel flowers dyurali bulbuwul.
Yanmannyang mudayi Dharug Ngurrawa. Walama ngyini budbud dali Dharug Ngurra Dharug yiyura baranyiin barribugu.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this Land, the Dharug people, and their continued connection to Country.
We pay our respects to Elders from yesterday to tomorrow.
We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Blacktown City where the flannel flowers still grow proud and strong.
We will walk softly on this land and open our hearts to Country as the Dharug people have for tens of thousands of years.
Credit to: Dharug woman Rhiannon Wright, daughter of Leanne ‘Mulgo’ Watson Redpath and granddaughter of Aunty Edna Watson
Get involved in a range of speciality workshops and engaging drop-in activities as part of Autumn Making!
Led by some Blacktown favourites plus some fresh new faces, Autumn Making encourages you to dig deep into your interests, ethics and creative practice to discover something new and spend more time doing the things you love.
Keep the conversation flowing with local First Nations Elders at Elders in Residence on Friday mornings, and expand your creative side on Wednesdays at Open Studio with artist and mentor Patrice Wills and 2022/23 Blacktown City Art Prize finalist Skye Andrew.
Join fellow 2022/23 Blacktown City Art Prize finalist Kirthana Selvaraj to capture the essence of who you are in a unique self-portrait, and join Magnify artist Shannon Smith to dive deep into Digital Drawing for young people.
Grab a spare tote bag or t-shirt and spend a morning making your mark for women in Iran with Woman Life Freedom.
Finally, bring the whole family along to the Blacktown City Festival Streets Alive Day, where local photographer Darren Bell will be snapping Family Portraits alongside his current exhibition, Darren Bell Shoots from the Hip.
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Patrice Wills has an extensive professional background working and training in visual arts, education, and health, traversing work in public arts programming. Patrice brings this life experience to her artistic practice which reflects on and explores the human condition and spirit. Patrice is an award-winning artist and producer of the Open Studio program. Patrice’s work is exhibited regularly, and frequently selected as a finalist in art awards and accrued in private and public collections.
Skye Andrew completed a Diploma of Fine Art at the National Art School, majoring in photography and painting, and has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Australia. She has a passion for the outdoors and loves creating art experiments alongside her primary school aged son.
Kirthana Selvaraj is a Queer, South Asian Artist, working on the unceded Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation (Sydney, Australia). Drawing on both individual and collective experiences within a Neo-colonial feminist discourse, her practice is centred on Race, intersections of seen and unseen, violence and passivity, and gender and sexuality.
Shannon Smith is a Gomeroi man, an Indigenous hip-hop artist and digital illustrator who has been active in the greater Sydney community for over ten years. As a performer, he has been involved in events and festivals including ChangeFest, SpeakUP Urban Poetry, and Say No to Ice Day, Mount Druitt. As a workshop director, his clients include Westfield, The Song Room, City of Parramatta, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, Noffs Foundation, and Blacktown City Council. He has performanced at various venues in the Sydney music scene, including Venue 505, Foundry 616 and Qudos Bank Arena.
Darren Bell is a First Nations artist and western Sydney resident who held his first exhibition in 2010 with Blacktown Arts. The following year he was featured in a Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative exhibition. He was included in Cold Eels and Distant Thoughts in Paddington and had his first solo exhibition at DNA Gallery in Chippendale in 2013. Darren’s artworks are held in state and private collections, and he was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize every year from 2012 to 2015.
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