NAIDOC Week 2022  July 3 – July 10 2022

Join us for a full week of public events to celebrate NAIDOC WEEK in Paris, reserve your spot now directly on our Eventbrite week link: HERE

PROGRAM

MONDAY 4 JULY

12:30pm Exclusive visit of the Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, guided by curator Juliette Lecorne

TUESDAY 5 JULY

Morning & Afternoon Cooking station with Kath Witbreuk, Chef to the Ambassador, using ingredients from the bush

12pm Destiny – The Art of Destiny Deacon private tour at the embassy guided by NGV’s Indigenous senior curator Myles Russell-Cook

7pm Nuit Sally Gabori at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art for a conversation with the artist’s family and anthropologist Nicholas Evans, curator Bruce Johnson McLean, and specialist Judith Ryan

WEDNESDAY 6 JULY

9:30am Exclusive visit of the Musée du quai Branly Indigenous Australian collection guided by curator Stéphanie Leclerc Caffarel

1pm Private tour of the exhibition Reclaim the Earth at Palais de Tokyo guided by curator Daria De Beauvais

7pm High Ground film directed by Stephen Johnson –  screening in the Embassy auditorium (in partnership with Cinema des Antipodes)

THURSDAY 7 JULY

8:30am Debate around the ethical trade of Aboriginal art with Stephanie Parkin – Chair, Indigenous Art Code and IDAIA Gallery Director, Solenne Ducos-Lamotte,

6:30pm Etched in Bone – documentary on the repatriation of Ancestral remains – screening at the embassy auditorium in the presence of the director Béatrice Bijon followed by a discussion on the film’s subject

Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, this carefully crafted documentary explores the impact of a notorious bone theft by a member of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in Northern Australia. Hundred of bones were stolen – meaning ancestral spirts were wrenched from their traditional country – and deposited in the famous Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. In the late 1990s, Arnhem Land Indigenous elders learned of the bones’ location and called for their return. Made over eight years, Etched in Bone gives extraordinary insight into the deep and enduring conflict between scientific and traditional forms of knowledge. The repatriation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestral remains held in international museums and institutions is a priority for the Australian government.

FRIDAY 8 JULY

9:30am to 4:30pm Children’s Day at the Australian Embassy with activities based on the 6 seasons and with two tables for children of ages 3 – 6 and two tables for 6 – 10 year olds

BIRAK A sandbox to draw, touch and feel
BUNURU A TV corner
DJERAN A kitchen table with ingredients from the bush
MAKURU and KAMBARANG A painting and craft table
DJILBA Reading corner & traditional music