Live music, markets, cultural activities, panel discussion and more
This winter, Blak Dot Gallery lights up the dark with the first of our annual, six-week screening series - transforming our glass entrance into a circular portal for moving image.
Join us for an Artist talk and Live performance with artist Daisy Dale Collier as they share ideas behind Tera echo and deliver a visceral sound intervention with collaborators, Nicholas Currie + Tristan Harwood.
Join artists Kirsten Garner Lyttle, wani toaishara and Frances Tapueluelu for an open conversation as they share the journey behind their works created for our current exhibition, EXCHANGE.
EXCHANGE: Panel discussion + ngargee: - Coming together to celebrate Southeast Australian Aboriginal art Book launch
Blam Balam community open day.
Applications are now open, Blak Dot First Nations Artists Market, SYDNEY RD, STREET PARTY 2025
Colectiva de Abya Yala are pleased to invite you all to Unknotting Sentipensares film screening.
Join: Julie Gough , Peta Clancy, Jody Haines and Jahkarli Romanis
A unique fusion of art and performance celebrating International Women’s Day and Future River: When the past flows.
BLAK DOT Artist Market presented in collaboration with Brunswick Music Festival
Blak Dot Gallery is proud to present the fourth annual Blak Dot Artists Market in Partnership with Brunswick Music Festival.
Primavera/Springtime in Naarm! Yo Soy Collective and Colectiva Abya Yala come together for the first time to curate a beautiful day of live performances, workshops and an artist market.
Enjoy music spoken word poetry, a bit of food refreshments and visual goodness!
Come celebrate the Equinox with live music, workshops, performances and food.
Come along and enjoy Culture, Connection, Collaboration and a good feast
Blak Dot Gallery is proud to present the fourth annual Blak Dot Artists Market in Partnership with Brunswick Music Festival.
Please join us for a afternoon on the lawns with Cubby Art Party Magazine Launch
First Nations-led weaving circle around the fire to talk about traversal connections across the Pacific Ocean.
Re-imagining our outdoor space turning it into an outdoor gallery
For Pacific Islanders, our hair are our crowns. Our connection to identity, ancestors and source of pride.
This event is FREE. Register via the link
These events are free but donations to CUBBY Art Magazine fundrazr are welcome (link below)
https://fundrazr.com/CubbyARTZINE?ref=ab_89rRd4
GOOD BREAD is an Afro American expression of pleasure and approval for a person, place or situation. Brought to you by Cubby Art Party, y'all could say that Good Bread is the art party that we've been... kneading!
At Good Bread, you can expect a wide array of flavour from a lineup of established and emerging artists from across the globe. We're cutting y'all some scrumptious slices of what we got over three weeks in October, so you can celebrate how you want to.
Butter up the dance floor on Opening Night. Snap your fingers at our Spoken Word event. Good Bread goes with everything! Come break some with us.
This event is FREE. Register via the link
These events are free but donations to CUBBY Art Magazine fundrazr are welcome (link below)
https://fundrazr.com/CubbyARTZINE?ref=ab_89rRd4
GOOD BREAD is an Afro American expression of pleasure and approval for a person, place or situation. Brought to you by Cubby Art Party, y'all could say that Good Bread is the art party that we've been... kneading!
At Good Bread, you can expect a wide array of flavour from a lineup of established and emerging artists from across the globe. We're cutting y'all some scrumptious slices of what we got over three weeks in October, so you can celebrate how you want to.
Butter up the dance floor on Opening Night. Snap your fingers at our Spoken Word event. Good Bread goes with everything! Come break some with us.
Blakademy Art Program presents:
Colectiva Abya Yala in collaboration with Kathleen Gonzalez gathered to celebrate the return of the sun, weaving a heartfelt ritual to honour the land and its cycles. The winter solstice has been celebrated by communities and cultures from the southern hemisphere since immemorial times. The gathering weaved threads between lands in the South, intertwining ‘Sur-Sur’ dialogues. Through the sharing of music, food, thoughts, caring and intentions around the fire, they put together a meaningful offering to the Pacha Mama. In circle, they braided their hair as roots braiding themselves, as sisters from Latin America inhabiting unceded Wurundjeri Land, inviting voices from the land, as plants climbing up to the light.
Bringing back to memory those days when we learned
That the land that gave us birth
it's the one to celebrate.
The return of the sun
ceases with the darkness.
Light inside of us
Light for our gardens.
The music is about to start
and the body needs to dance.
Through stories and prayers
flourishing in trance.
Gather for the harvest
and sitting by the fire
The feast has started
our spirits rising higher.
'Around the Fire’. Colectiva de Abya Yala will be hosting a Winter Solstice Celebration offering a caring space to open dialogues with the broad community around the subjects of rituals, poetry, music, dance and food.
𝗟𝗮 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗿𝗮
𝟮9𝘁𝗵 August 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 | 5.30-𝟳𝗣𝗠
𝗩𝗲𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗻𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗩𝗜𝗖
This event is part of the project 'Around the Fire' which has been proudly supported by Moreland City Council through the 2020 Flourish: Arts Recovery Grant program.
Blakademy’s free public art program 'Around the Fire’. In this opportunity, Colectiva de Abya Yala will be hosting a Winter Solstice Celebration offering a caring space to open dialogues with the broad community around the subjects of rituals, poetry, music, dance and food.
BLAK DOT GALLERY presents 'HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE'
A feature film written and directed by Taika Waititi (2016)
✿ BYO picnic & a rug
✿ family & dog friendly
✿ licensed bar, popcorn & choc tops available
✿ deck chairs provided
7.30pm | selected shorts begin
8:30pm (or dusk) | feature begins
Synopsis — This adventure comedy written and directed by Taika Waititi, whose screenplay was based on the book Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump. Sam Neill and Julian Dennison star as a rebellious kid and his foster uncle, as a national manhunt is ordered when they go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Produced by Little Projector Company
Hosted by Siteworks & Blak Dot Gallery
This is a COVIDSafe registered event. Please stay safe and do not attend if you are feeling unwell.
BLAK DOT GALLERY presents 'TOP END WEDDING'
A feature film by Wayne Blair (Australia, 2019)
✿ BYO picnic & a rug
✿ family & dog friendly
✿ licensed bar, popcorn & choc tops available
✿ deck chairs provided
7.30pm | selected shorts begin
8:30pm (or dusk) | feature begins
Synopsis — Lauren and Ned are 2 lawyers from Adelaide recently engaged, and set out through the stunning landscapes of Northern Territory to pull off their dream wedding. Adamant she can’t get hitched without her mum, Lauren and Ned hop in the four-wheel drive and get on the road to find her after a split with her Father. A rom-com story about family, heritage and the bonds that never break.
Produced by Little Projector Company
Hosted by Siteworks & Blak Dot Gallery
This is a COVIDSafe registered event. Please stay safe and do not attend if you are feeling unwell.
BLAK DOT GALLERY presents 'IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS'
A documentary by Maya Newell (Australia, 2019)
✿ BYO picnic & a rug
✿ family & dog friendly
✿ licensed bar, popcorn & choc tops available
✿ deck chairs provided
7.30pm | selected shorts begin
8:30pm (or dusk) | feature begins
Synopsis — 10 year old Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages. As he shares his wisdom of history and the complex world around him we see his spark and intelligence. Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare and the police. As he travels perilously close to incarceration, his family fight to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education lest he becomes another statistic.
We walk with him as he grapples with these pressures, shares his truths and somewhere in-between finds space to dream, imagine and hope for his future self.
Produced by Little Projector Company
Hosted by Siteworks & Blak Dot Gallery
This is a COVIDSafe registered event. Please stay safe and do not attend if you are feeling unwell.
DEAD END FILM FESTIVAL presents
'LAND OF THE LONG WHITE CLOUD'
A documentary by Florian Habicht (New Zealand, 2009)
✿ BYO picnic & a rug
✿ family & dog friendly
✿ licensed bar, popcorn & choc tops available
✿ deck chairs provided
7.30pm | selected shorts begin
8:30pm (or dusk) | feature begins
Synopsis — Director Florian Habicht returns to his Northland home turf to chronicle the annual Snapper Classic Fishing Contest, in this full-length documentary. First prize is $50,000, but the participants chase the joy of the cast as much as the purse.
The solitary figures on the epic sweep of Ninety Mile Beach provide poetic images, as Habicht teases out homespun philosophy while fishing for answers on love, the afterlife and whether fish have feelings. The soundtrack features 50s style instrumentals from Habicht regular Marc Chesterman, plus singalongs on the sand and at the local pub.
Produced by Little Projector Company
Hosted by Siteworks & Blak Dot Gallery
This is a COVIDSafe registered event. Please stay safe and do not attend if you are feeling unwell.
An online night of stories and omens with the Pasifika Storytellers Collective part of Melbourne fringe 2020.
Omens, Portents and messages from the other side. Stories of dreams, ancestral spirit visitors and the messages we receive daily as we walk through life. They are often warnings or telling of family events or suffering. A portent of death or of future birth. A warning of impending pain or a harbinger of future happiness.
As Indigenous and First Nations people we walk through life tuned into the spirit plane as well as the living plane. We weave mana and meaning into the things we create and understand that the spirituality of things is integral to its existence in the material world.
This event is hosted by the Pasifika Storytellers Collective in collaboration with Colectiva Abya Yala a as part of a shared series of events “Around the fire”. An opportunity for the two collectives (both housed at Blakademy) to meet 'around a fire', to share and engage in embodied knowledge and poetics that have migrated and traveled through time and territories of the South Pacific.
Join both Collectives for an online evening of sharing poetry, performance and woven words over zoom.
Register here for link.
PASIFIKA STORYTELLERS COLLECTIVE ARTISTS
Veisinia Tonga
Veisinia is a Tongan Kakala artist and Storyteller living in Narrm. With a background inJournalism and Floristry. Her art practice with Kakala (plant material) uses the traditional floristry practices of Tonga/Pacifika. As a writer, Veisinia has been published in various publications in New Zealand. Currently working on screenplays and a play with development funding. Veisinia sees a need for a vehicle to help elevate Pasifika narratives and to empower the Pasifika community to tell their own stories. She is working to facilitate the transfer of stories from elders (knowledge keepers) to the younger generation in order to continue the oral storytelling traditions of our Pasifika cultures, keenly aware of her role as a future knowledge keeper, she takes this responsibility seriously and is actively seeking knowledge and understanding by sitting at the feet of her cultural elders. Co-founder of Pasifika Storytellers Collective and Tongan Cultural group, Manava.
Mele-Ane Havea
Mele-Ane is a first generation Tongan Dutch Australian, who lives, works and creates on the land of the Kulin Nations. She is passionate about the intersection of First Nations wisdom, purpose led business and believes in the immense power of storytelling for change.
Her storytelling is an exploration of the many questions that arise when trying to live and love fully in the space between.
Grace Vanilau
Grace Vanilau is a Naarm based Inter-disciplinary artist and Community Cultural Development practitioner of Samoan descent. She morphs between multiple disciplines; singing, spoken word/oratory, weaving, writing and sometimes dancer - all while balancing motherhood. Born and bred in Otautahi she moved to Melbourne in 1996. She is currently working with Te Pasifika Redevelopment Team at the Melbourne Museums as a Cultural Consultant.
Seini F. Taumoepeau
Seini F. Taumoepeau, a.k.a SistaNative is a veteran professional of Oceanic Arts, Media & Cultural sectors in Australia - Songwoman & Orator.
The Founder of OceaniaX & LELEI Wellness, Seini is an Award winning Performer, International Presenter & Educator and she continues to dedicate her life to empower all peoples, with a specific First Nations focus on the Oceanic region towards Self-Determination.
Marita Davies
Marita Davies is an Australian/I-Kiribati writer. A storyteller at heart, Marita explores Pacific issues including women, health, domestic violence and climate change. She is passionate about recreating the animated and insightful oral storytelling of Pacific Islanders in various forms. Marita is a children’s book author and has written for frankie, The Guardian, The Big Issue and Dumbo Feather.
Lay the Mystic
Lay the Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician and dedicated cubby-fort maker based in Narrm.
His current works are centred around intimacy, all things close being both a lens to understand societal or cultural issues, and a landscape to enact change.
Natalia Mann
Natalia Mann is a Samoan harpist, composer and resonance artist for whom music is a mode of discovery, a language which connects us with the intelligence of our universe. Mann's art tests our perceived boundaries of reality, connecting people with their own subtle consciousness to experience heightened awareness of their environments. Her projects are social, interactive and experimental.
Jessica Taruna Paraha
Jessica Taruna Paraha is a multi-disciplinary artist who likes to look at her practice as a loving act of translation. She is a Ngati Hine Māori woman living on Cadigal land, and her translations come from her whakapapa, through recalling them she pays tribute to her tīpuna and the many lands she inhabits.
She is a member of the Pasifika Storytellers collective, is a current recipient of the Emerging Writers Festival’s at home residency program and currently works as a lead artist at the Youth Arts organisation Outloud, delivering social impact arts projects to young people in Western Sydney.
María José Herrera
Maria Jose Herrera is a Chilean migrant woman based in Naarm (Melbourne). Reader, writer and feminist activist. Currently growing roots in her own garden, evolving seasonally and flowering in Autumn. Her poetry is the result of a long journey of understanding the meaning of life and her own inner world in connection with nature.
Alejandra Marín Oyarce
Chilean Actress and Theatre Director. She has worked in Performing Arts for more than 10 years. In October 2017, she moved to Melbourne, Australia where she has been part of the Company The Bridge - Teatro Latino. She participated at the MELBOURNEFRINGEFESTIVAL2018withtheplay‘Beasts’a tLaMamaTheatre.
During the last two years she has also been doing Drama and Movement Workshops and has been actively participating in the Colectiva Abya Yala and Latinx Feminists Melbourne.
This event has been proudly supported by Moreland City Council through the 2020 Flourish: Arts Recovery Grant program. AROUND THE FIRE
