TENT EMBASSY IN THE ARBORETUM
Supporting Gosford Regional Gallery’s “OCCURRENT AFFAIR” Exhibition and activating Richard Bell’s Tent Embassy
Time & Location
21 Jan 2024, 9:30 am – 2:00 pm
Pearl Beach, 71 Crystal Ave, Pearl Beach NSW 2256, Australia
About the event
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was founded on Australia Day in 1972 by Indigenous activists – Michael Anderson, Billy Craigie, Bertie Williams and Tony Coorey in 1995 it was listed on the Register of the National Estate as a site that represented the political struggle of all Indigenous Australians.
It provides both a platform and a shelter for discussion on preconceived ideas and stereotypes about Aboriginal people art and culture
Delivered by the awsome Black First Nations Creative.
MC: First Nations Poet Brooke Scobie.
9.30am - Raising The Tent
11.00am - Acknowledgement to Country