The theme for NAIDOC Week (July 5-12) in 2009 is Honouring Our Elders, Nurturing Our Youth. The theme encourages our communities to acknowledge the status of our Elders as leaders and role models for our youth. NAIDOC stands for the National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee. Its origins can be traced to the emergence of Aboriginal groups in the 1920s which sought to increase awareness in the wider community of the status and treatment of Indigenous Australians.
Next Wave Time Lapse, is an arresting program of new screen-based work by young and emerging artists for Federation Square's Big Screen and surrounding multimedia sites. Starting July 2009, Next Wave will present new work by twelve of Australia's most exciting young video and new media artists. July 2009 - 30 May 2010.
The Scarf Festival is Back!
After a short hiatus, the very popular Scarf Festival is back and is moving from its former home at Craft Victoria in Melbourne to its new location at the National Wool Museum in Geelong, from 19 June to 19 July, 2009.
Australia's most extraordinary art event, the Archibald Prize, first awarded in 1921, is one of this country's oldest and most prestigious art awards. Bendigo Art Gallery is pleased to participate in the tour of the Archibald Prize as the exclusive Victorian venue until July 12th.
Presented and produced by Multicultural Arts Victoria, this dynamic arts festival celebrates Victoria's many diverse refugee and emerging cultures with a series of amazing performances and unique cultural experiences around Melbourne from 16 June to 26 July, 2009.
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