National Indigenous Art Fair 2023

This NAIDOC week, the Overseas Passenger Terminal will see two days of Indigenous art, along with smoking ceremonies, bushfood, culture, dance performances and communal weaving circles. 

The National Indigenous Art Fair will feature an ethical marketplace, where you'll find over 50 local artists, designers and makers from Australia's leading authentic First Nations marketplace - the Blak Markets - as well as stallholders from remote art centres. From artworks to fashion, jewellery and homewares, these inventive artisans are exemplars of sustainability. 

The Program

Saturday 1 July

• 9:45am - Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony
• 10am - National Indigenous Art Fair Official Opening
• 10:30am - Djiriba Waagura Dance Group
• 11am -  Radical Son
• 11:45pm - Bushfood Cooking Demonstration and talk
• 1pm - Larry Brandy storytelling for children
• 2pm - Barayagal Choir
• 3pm - Djiriba Waagura Dance Group
• 3:30pm - Radical Son
• 4:30pm - Uncle Eagle Creation story performance by Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation
• All Day - Weaving Circle

Sunday 2nd July

• 9:45am -   Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony at Cadman’s Cottage forecourt
• 10am -  National Indigenous Art Fair opens
• 10:30am  - Place Management presents Children’s Workshops all day at Cadmans Cottage forecourt - interactive dance and cultural adornment by Jannawi and plant propagation with IndigiGrow at Cadman’s Cottage forecourt
• 10:15am  - Mui Mui Bumer Gedlam Dance Group (OPT)
• 11:00am - Singing by Bow & Arrow band
• 11:45pm -  Bushfood Cooking Demonstration and talk
• 1pm - Panel discussion -For Our Elders
• 2:30pm - Larry Brandy storytelling for children
• 3:30pm -  Mui Mui Bumer Gedlam Dance Group
• 4pm - Singing by Bow & Arrow band