NAIDOC week celebrations – Sunday 7th July 2024
The Australian National Maritime Museum kicks off NAIDOC week 2024 with a Family Fun Day, honouring the theme for 2024 Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud.
Celebrate the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth, exploring stories and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Join in creative cultural activities for all ages with artmaking activities, dance workshops, face painting, tea tasting and storytelling.
Program
Ben Lexcen Terrace Forecourt
11am – Smoking ceremony
The Theatre
Sunday 7 July - Sunday 14 July 12pm daily
Screening of documentary film Mammung.
Mammung (Noongar name for the whale) is a documentary film exploring indigenous knowledge about climate change adaptation and sea level rise.
Terrace Room
10.30am- 4pm – NAIDOC facepainting and drop-in activities in Kids on Deck
Make a model nawi, design a badge to celebrate NAIDOC, and learn to make a woven ghostnet sea creature
11.30am- Session 1- Stories and Live art with Charmaine Ledden-Lewis
12.45pm- Session 2- Stories and Live art with Charmaine Ledden-Lewis
Ben Lexcen Terrace Performance area
12pm – Session 1- Kids Dance workshop with artists from Bangarra Dance Theatre (families session, recommended for kids 4-12 yrs)
12pm – 3.30pm – drop-in artmaking workshops
1pm - Session 2- Kids Dance workshop with artists from Bangarra Dance Theatre
(families session, recommended for kids 4-12 yrs)
2pm – Session 3- Open-age- Dance workshop with artists from Bangarra Dance Theatre
(Open age session- recommended for visitors ages 13- adult)
Museum Shop
11am – 3pm – Tea tastings –drop in for a taste-test of our new range of Mabu mabu teas
Bamal Yarning Space
All day – Catch a screening of Barani, a story that stretches back thousands of years, exploring themes of humanity, compassion and connection.
Museum foyer
10.30am – 11.30am and 2-3pm – Drop-in and explore touchable artefacts from our education collection at the Cabinet of Curiosities – Saltwater Stories
Artist Profiles
CHARMAINE LEDDEN LEWIS
Charmaine Ledden-Lewis is a proud Bundjalung woman, artist and illustrator, living on Dharug & Gundungurra Country in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Through guidance and demonstration, Charmaine shares her passion and enthusiasm for creativity and visual literacy, and encourages all those she meets to transcend inhibition and engage in artistic expression. Charmaine also takes pride in fostering conversation exploring First Nations perspective, inclusivity and diversity.
COURTNEY RADFORD
Balardong descendant (WA)
Courtney is a proud Balardong Noongar from Perth, Western Australia. She first found her passion for dance as a child in Port Hedland (Pilbara), WA. In 2016, she accepted a position with the West Australian Ballet and fulfilled her contract for two years. In 2019, Courtney joined Bangarra as a company dancer. Her biggest highlight so far was taking Spirit to Canada and sharing stories with people around the world.
KIARN DOYLE
A proud Aboriginal man from the Dunghutti Nation (NSW)
Kiarn is an Aboriginal man from the Dunghutti Nation, born in Mullumbimby (Bundjalung Country) and raised in the Blue Mountains (Darug/ Gundungurra Country). Kiarn trained at PAWS and then pursued full-time dance training at NAISDA Dance College. Kiarn received awards in Certificate III and IV in dance performance and graduated in 2019 with a Diploma of Dance. Kiarn joined Bangarra in 2020 as the Russell Page Graduate recipient.
