Acknowledgement of Country

Dharug

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.

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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

Makers Space with Ebony Wightman

Calling all spies to Blacktown Arts!
Ebony Wightman of We Are Studios is launching her 2025 Makers Space, ‘Level 5’, and you’re invited!

Informed by her lived experience as an Autistic person, Ebony’s playful Makers Space unpacks feelings of living a double life and trying to make yourself fit into a world that was not made for you. The space will be transformed into a spies hideout full of mysteries to solve, disguises to craft and wear, and talking pigeons!

On Level 5, “Why? And Who?” are both the questions and the answers.

Makers Space was launched in 2024 as an immersive and interactive space for creatives of all ages. Led by guest artists and curators, the Makers Space offers a year-round, dedicated space for reflection, creativity and play.

Bios

Ebony Wightman is a multi-disciplinary artist, creative leader, Disability advocate and self-identified spy living and working on Dharug country (Western Sydney).

Ebony’s practice champions disability-led perspectives and explores her lived experience as an Autistic person with complex health needs and chronic illness, as well as the intersectional rights and identities of d/Deaf and Disabled communities.

Ebony is a co-founder of We Are Studios, Australia’s first 100% disability-led studio for Western Sydney artists with disability. Ebony is a 2024 Creative Leadership Program recipient (Creative Australia).

This project is presented by Blacktown Arts and supported by Blacktown City Council and the NSW Government through Create NSW.

     

Image Credits:

Hero image designed by Ebony Wightman
Ebony Wightman, photographed by Louise Whelan

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