Dear Elders & Community
The Broken Hill City Art Gallery would like to invite you to The Looking Through Windows exhibition, workshops and performance week with the curator and artists. There will be an Elders tour, weaving workshops, oral history workshops with morning/afternoon tea and lunch provided.
Take a journey from the Outback to the New England, Northern Tablelands and the Coast through our Elders’ stories that have been transformed into poetry, art, song, music, theatre, sculptures in the exhibition.
This exhibition is the result of a two-year multimedia project by Dr Lorina L. Barker and her team which showcases our Elders stories of mission life and what it was like to be removed from Country and forced to live under the ‘protection’ of the Aborigines Protection/Welfare Boards.
Hang out with the artists for lunch and a yarn and share your stories, memories and experiences of the mission and reserve days and what it was like to live under the Act.
Help us to pay tribute to and remember the tenacity and strength of our Elders to record and preserve our languages and histories that connect us to our peoples, identities, cultures and Countries.
The Looking Through Windows artists would also like to discuss with you an idea to extend this project, by focusing on the oral histories of Broken Hill.
Join us in recording our stories and histories in our own way.