Safer Cities: Her Way
Safer Cities: Her Way is part of an important state-wide initiative to rethink and redesign public spaces.
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
We bring together the creative work of visual artists, craftspeople, designers, makers, and performance artists, to make temporary and permanent art accessible and visible across the City.
Safer Cities: Her Way is part of an important state-wide initiative to rethink and redesign public spaces.
Blacktown Arts and Blacktown City Council have installed 17 new vibrant bins throughout the Blacktown LGA featuring artworks by Aunty Edna Watson, Uncle Danny Eastwood and Jamie Eastwood, Karen Maber, Patrice Wills and more.
Laneways in Blacktown are being transformed with street art in It’s Our Thing Part III.
Artists Jan Cleveringa and Rosalind Stanley were commissioned to create murals in Marketown Riverstone. The artists consulted with Darug artist Leanne Watson for input in the designs with Darug symbology.
Take time to gather and reflect at Blacktown City’s first Domestic and Family Violence Memorial Garden.
Blacktown City Council has commissioned local Western Sydney artist Cameron Marbus to design and paint new murals to express the vibrancy and energy of the Riverstone youth precinct in Riverstone Park.
Blacktown City recognises the importance of public art in contributing to a vibrant, inclusive and resilient community.
Blacktown City recognises the importance of public art in contributing to a vibrant, inclusive and resilient community.