Bundjalung Events

09/12/2024

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“WULA WULA LEE LA”
Sharing together
Thurs 12 Dec 2024
5-8pm

Ethan-James Kotiau
Kurun Warun
Melissa Ladkin

Ninbella 
19a Byron Street
Bangalow
All Welcome

28/11/2024

Attached is the schedule of the upcoming Unnatural Disasters Tour by the Australian Climate Case


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Northern Rivers friends: you’re invited to a special evening of discussion and action ✨✊📣

Join us for a panel discussion with a phenomenal line-up of speakers, followed by free catering, live music, and an action-taking session.

🎟️ Registration is free but essential - hit the link in our bio!

⚖️🐚 Lead plaintiffs in the landmark Australian Climate Case, Uncle Pabai & Uncle Paul, will be visiting Bundjalung Country to connect stories of climate impacts.

💥 JOIN US to learn how we can connect our movements, build collective power, and win stronger climate action together to keep our communities safe.

Everyone is welcome and needed. Together we are powerful!

28/11/2024

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Northern Rivers friends: you’re invited to a special evening of discussion and action ✨✊📣

Join us for a panel discussion with a phenomenal line-up of speakers, followed by free catering, live music, and an action-taking session.

🎟️ Registration is free but essential - hit the link in our bio!

⚖️🐚 Lead plaintiffs in the landmark Australian Climate Case, Uncle Pabai & Uncle Paul, will be visiting Bundjalung Country to connect stories of climate impacts.

💥 JOIN US to learn how we can connect our movements, build collective power, and win stronger climate action together to keep our communities safe.

Everyone is welcome and needed. Together we are powerful!

27/11/2024

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COMING SOON | Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali Exhibition

‘Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali Exhibition ...we weave together’ presents new work by contemporary Bundjalung First Nations artists responding to their great grandmothers’ artistry of weaving alongside historic woven objects from the collection of the Australian Museum.

Presented by Arts Northern Rivers and curated Kylie Caldwell, the exhibition will launch Saturday 21 December 2024 at Grafton Regional Gallery, travelling on to Tweed Regional Gallery and Lismore Regional Gallery on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.

This touring exhibition is presented by in partnership with , and . This project was made possible by the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support Program, the NSW Government through , the Dobell Exhibition Grant Program and the Australian Government

Images courtesy of Arts Northern Rivers.

26/11/2024

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🎅🏾 Excited to be a stall holder at the .services Lismore Christmas Carnival. Come along and enjoy a massive day of rides, food and stalls! The deadly Blackman Dreaming (Dad) will be an opening act. 🖤💛❤️
As well as being an original song writer dad is also an amazing artist, behind him is one of his artworks as he plays a guitar I painted up.

26/11/2024

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The highly anticipated Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award exhibition opens this Saturday, 30 November.

Join us at 2.00pm for the opening, where we’ll celebrate the incredible talent of the finalists and announce the winners. Guest judge Rebecca Ray, Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, will guide the selections.

🏆 Award Categories

Major non-acquisitive Koori Mail Art Award $10,000
Innovation Award $3,000
Friends of the Gallery Youth Award $500

✨ All are welcome to join the celebration! RSVP is preferred but not required

Proudly sponsored by the Koori Mail.

Image: Clare Jaque Vasquez, Sky Palette 2024.

22/11/2024

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Join us for the last installment of our Art Residency Program that’s been running all year.
We are celebrating the participants achievements with an exhibition held at .aari in Lismore on the 23rd November ✨

15/11/2024

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Art on Bundjalung Market is finally here all day tomorrow at Evans Head bringing together deadly creatives from all over this vast beautiful Bundjalung Jagun. I will have a few items including pendants and pinched bowls on stall. Thanks .art and the Casino women. See you all bright and early x image: Aunty Margot Torrens with weavings; some of my pendants

14/11/2024

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DURANGEN is screening as part of the SF3 HIGHLY-COMMENDED FILMS Session which goes live on their website from 18 November 2024

DURANGEN’ means ‘grow’ or ‘growing’ in a number of dialects of the traditional language, and this features six matriarchs speaking about their insider perspectives on .

Discussing our artworks in the film highlights the contribution of in growing culture, alongside some of the many companions revered in daily living for us as Aboriginal people since time immemorial, but are now under threat from recent floods, fires, drought and pests. It is essential for us to have an archival record and be able to reshare this, especially as it involves the irreplaceable biological heritage of the plant queendom.

As senior artists and cultural practitioners of the , we each represent different clan groups that make up some of the and are featured in collaboration with cyberTribe: Euphemia Bostock (Munanjali), Faith Baisden (Kombumerri), Tania Marlowe (Nyanbul), Deidre Currie (Minjungbal), Jasmin Stanford (Githabul), and myself as Artist Curator Filmmaker, Jenny Fraser (Migunburri).

The artists interviewed for the documentary were also part of a world first Bundjalung plant art showcase in Japan, representing Australia at the 2023 JAALA Biennial held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. The self-funded group collection featured a range of weaving, textiles, ceramics, photography, and text, all with a focus on a bio-regional approach to plant uses.

14/11/2024

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Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is coming up; this year on November 20th the Quad is offering ‘Aftercare’. A safe space for trans people and their families, chosen or kin, to come together. To connect, reflect and return to their body.

TDOR: Aftercare is joined by Gusta Silky from the House of Silky. Join Gusta as he guides you through the five elements that make up Vogue Fem to return to your body in a celebration of your existence and resistance. Discover the power that comes from expressing your inner world through movement and allow any heavy emotions of this day to shift and move through your body in the form of celebration.

Immersive art, yarning spaces and refreshments will also be provided on the afternoon.

Gusta Silky at the Silky Ball 2024. Photo: Rob Tennen

14/11/2024

12/11/2024

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ARTIST COLLAB | Aunty Simone Barker

This year, Art on Bundjalung is proud to be working with Aunty Simone Barker, Bandjalang custodian and knowledge holder - including an exciting artist collaboration!

A limited run of t-shirts featuring Aunty Simone’s beautiful design will be available for purchase exclusively at the event from the Arts Northern Rivers tent. Available in ochre, spectra yellow and anthracite in sizes S - ###L for $45.

All proceeds from purchases will support future Art on Bundjalung artist collaborations.

Photography - Kate Holmes

29/10/2024

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🔥🔥🔥🐝🌱🥥🛖🏹🪃,🥥🌱🍍🫚🍄🌳🐍🪺********* Early bird tickets ends on 31st October ...

24/10/2024

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MARKET | Art on Bundjalung 2024

We’re so excited to bring another brilliant Blak Market to Bundjalung Country! This year, our First Nations-led arts market will take place at Dirruwung | Evans Head on Saturday, 16th November. Dirruwung, meaning ‘goanna,’ is the name gifted to this special place by Bandjalang ancestors, a site rich in stories and significance for many Bundjalung peoples and their families.

This year’s market is set to be our biggest yet, featuring over 30 stalls from both emerging and established creatives from across Bundjalung Country. You’ll find a stunning array of artworks, prints, ceramics, carvings, textiles, homewares, artefacts, and woven treasures available for purchase. To learn more about our artists, check out artonbundjalung.com!

Plus, don’t miss the cultural program with an incredible line-up of performances and activities to be announced. Be sure to follow for upcoming details.

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Sat 16 Nov | 9am - 3pm
Cribb Reserve, Dirruwung | Evans Head
More info: artonbundjalung.com

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Artwork by Jason King, photograph courtesy of the artist.

24/10/2024

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Join artist, and co-curator of ‘Buruugaa Garaa Buruu Garaa Budgeramgali’, Melissa Ladkin, for a Jarjums art exploration with earth pigments. Youth will have an opportunity to connect to Country through a colourful and tactile ochre painting workshop.

Sunday 27 October, 10am - 12pm
Age: 10 - 16 years
Tickets: $10, First Nations, free. Bookings essential, limited places available, book via the Upcoming programs link in our bio.

Accessibility: The Gallery is wheelchair accessible, Auslan interpretation available on request via the booking link, all abilities welcome.
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24/10/2024

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This Saturday, 26 October at 11am join a conversation between First Nations knowledge holders Ella Noah Bancroft and Kris Cook, facilitated by broadcaster and journalist Mick O’Regan. Together they will delve into ongoing cultural connections to our lakes, rivers and oceans, and the significance of our waterways.

Ella Noah Bancroft is a proud Bundjalung woman from Northern NSW, and also has bloodlines to Scotland and Poland. She is an experienced speaker and facilitator advocating for the environment, social justice and system change. Ella is passionate about decolonising the world and the rise of feminine force.

Kris Cook Nyangbal barii Bundjalung barii naa, Dangattir bari. Burrugaa Ngiiyn, baluul ngiiyn. Maamang garraa, gamii garraa, babarraa naa. Bullina ngumbiyn ngee balun naa. Born Nyangbal, born of Bundjalung, Dangatti. Ocean dweller, river, dweller. Descendant of Maamang descendent of Grandmother, belong to father. Lives in Bullinaa beside the river. Kris is a Bandjalang Language and Cultural teacher and a professional photographer.

Mick O’Regan is a local broadcaster and journalist, well versed in hosting public conversations. In his career across various media, especially at ABC Radio National as a program maker and presenter, Mick has focused on progressive ideas and community engagement.

This conversation is in response to our exhibition ‘Buruugaa Garaa Buruu Garaa Budgeramgali’, co-curated by Melissa Ladkin.

For further information and to reserve your spot visit the Upcoming programs link in our bio.

Images courtesy the speakers, slide 4: Djon Mundine, ‘Tweed River Waters’ (video still, detail) 2016.

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15/09/2024

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Marking the official start of the Richmond River Festival with a dynamic day of activities overlooking the Wilsons River in Lismore.

11am Sunday 22nd September
Riverside Park, Lismore

The event will include river-themed stalls, cultural performances, and family-friendly activities, all designed to inspire and engage the local community. ‘

Hosted by Northern Rivers Community Healing Hub, Richmond Riverkeeper with Ozfish Unlimited , Jagun Alliance, with Social Futures and Landcare.

This event has been made possible with support from Lismore City Council.

See the full program for RiverFest at:

👉🏾 richmondriverfest.com

14/09/2024

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Heal The Rivers and Jagun Alliance announce Healing Baluun

Jagun Alliance is pleased to announce, as a part of the immersive multi-day NIDR Gathering event taking place 24-26 September at the Lismore Showground, we are hosting dinner and entertainment for NIDR delegates, mob and local allies. 

HEALING BALUUN, will take place Wednesday 25 September from 3.30pm to 7.30pm and is an afternoon/evening of connection, yarning, film, food and music.

Featuring guest speakers and films sharing story and knowledge about our Rivers, and a range of musical performers including Madi King and Bundjalung rapper, artist, activist and advocate, JK-47.

A night to remember under the big Bunyas.

Tickets are $30 and can be found here - https://events.humanitix.com/healing-baluun-nidr or Link in Bio

This event is supported by Heal the Rivers, funded by the Australian Government through the Northern Rivers Recovery and Resilience Program 2022-23 administered by the NSW Reconstruction Authority.
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Healing Baluun
�Wednesday 25 September
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�Lismore Showgrounds under the Bunyas