You are invited to the opening of the exhibition Looking Through Windows on Friday 10 November, 2017. 

5pm

Armidale & Region Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place, 128 Kentucky St, Armidale.

Introduction: Rose Lovelock, Chairperson, Armidale & Region Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place.

Theatre performance: Trucked-off by Julie Collins & Lorina Barker with family members and local cast members.

6pm

New England Regional Art Museum 106-114 Kentucky St, Armidale.

Welcome to Country: Uncle Steve Widders, Anaiwan Elder

Guest speakers: Aunty Dianne Roberts, Thunghutti Elder; Professor Heiko Daniel, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of New England.

Performance & Smoking Ceremony: Birabun Dancers

Looking Through Windows is an exhibition curated by artist, filmmaker and oral historian Dr Lorina Barker who has used a fusion of old art forms and new technologies to document the lived stories, experiences and memories of Aboriginal people across the New England and Northwest regions of NSW. Her exhibition depicts life under ‘The Act’ and control of the Aborigines Protection and Welfare Boards. Exhibition open 10 November – 10 December 2017.

Supported through the Australian Government Department of Communications and the Arts Indigenous Languages and Arts program. 

Image: Brian Smith, The Gathering 2017 acrylic on canvas