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If you’re in Naarm/Melbourne for NAIDOC Week, you can catch these films and more. 🎟️️️️ This year, NAIDOC marks 50 years. Fifty years of mob showing up in the streets, the courts, the classrooms, the galleries, the water. To mark this moment, we’re proud to partner with @justfuturescollab on a community film and conversation series in Melbourne celebrating First Nations leadership, climate justice and our shared future. Organised by Kulkalaig woman and climate justice advocate Tishiko King, the series uses film as a way to bring people together for conversations around Country, community, and more than 65,000 years of knowledge and story. 5–12 July at Brunswick Picture House. Proceeds go directly to frontline communities. 🎟️👉Grab your tickets now at brunswickpicturehouse.com.au/naidoc-week (link in bio) #naidocweek2026 #naidocweek #naidoc2026 #50yearsofdeadly
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IN COMMUNITY: Opening Night Screening: AKI Director: Darlene Naponse (Anishnawbemowin) 🕒 June 2, 2026 | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM 📍 TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 1 Short Film Program: Love Has No Gender Directors: Alex PV, Allie Howell, Zachery Cameron Longboy, Giselle Ilaoa, Shanelle St. Hilaire 🕒 June 5, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 📍 TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 2 Ceremony Director: Banchi Hanuse (Nuxalk) Preceded by: Yiyíistsʼą́ą́ʼ (Listen) Director: Malakye Zaayin Tsosie (Navajo) 🕒 June 5, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM 📍 TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 3 Powwow People Director: Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk) Preceded by: Are You Native? Director: Victoria Cheyenne (Aymara) 🕒 June 7, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM 📍 TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 3 Journey Home, David Gulpilil Director: Trisha Morton-Thomas, Maggie Miles Preceded by: HOLDING S P A C E Director: Apryl Day, Jirra Lulla Harvey 🕒 June 6, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM 📍 TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 2 🔗 Tickets on sale now for the 26th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, taking place June 2-7, 2026 (Toronto) and June 8-14, 2026 (online)! Visit the Box Office at our link in bio to get tickets while they're still available. . . . . . #imagineNATIVE #IndigenousFilm #OpeningNightScreening #Tkaronto
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Apryl Day and Jirra Lulla’s collaborative exhibition and film work HOLDING SPACE at QVWC stood as a space that honoured grief, resilience, and joy simultaneously. Through photography and visual storytelling, the exhibition was a love letter to Cummeragunja, preserving stories and knowledge of Elders, the knowledge holders, whose guidance shapes the survival and revitalisation of cultural practices for future generations. With YIRRAMBOI’s 2027 Commissions EOI open, we sent some questions over to the 2025 Commissions artists. Check out the interview with Apryl and Jirra and head over to our website to learn more about the 2027 Commissions and to apply. + + @apryl_louise4 @kalinya.studios @dhadjowa_foundation @qvwc_melbourne Apryl Day and Jirra Lulla, they are both wearing long dresses, Jirra is smiling and looking away and Apryl is looking into the camera. They are surrounded by Native plants and flowers.
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For Holding Space, every element from film and photography to furniture was chosen to honour story, memory and Country. Shapes that curve like riverbanks, colours that echo Country from dusk to dawn. Every detail was chosen with intention: to hold memory, to reflect Country, to respect the stories shared by our Elders, and to create spaces that spark reflection, connection and remembering. This is what Indigenous-led design looks like. Holding Space was shaped by Indigenous values of respect, reciprocity and care for all living beings. We made sure the exhibition honoured Country not just in story, but in how it was created - choosing to reuse materials, keep things low-impact and gift back to community. Grateful for the in-kind support from @harrythehirer not only for their Camille, Harper and Pacific collections that sat beautifully alongside our immersive installation, but also for creating the visuals for this reel. Forever thankful to @mothdesign for their in-kind support, helping bring Holding Space to life in every sense from design guidance, to connecting us with suppliers, to holding the process with respect, care and creativity the whole way through. Thank you to @qvwc_melbourne for offering the venue, in-kind support and sponsorship that helped make this exhibition possible. And a special thank you to @alchemyorange for the gorgeous native floral installations that helped ground the space and connection to Country. The flowers you saw at the exhibition are now living on Yorta Yorta Country at Cummeragunja 👣 Song 🎵: Brand New Smile by @dean.bradyy
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To celebrate @NAIDOCWeek, we put together a video of all the deadly young people we’ve worked with over the years. From Barkindji to Yindjibarndi and many mobs in between, the next generation are shaping a bright future with their strength, vision and legacy. Special thanks to @3Three.Percent for blessing us with their Blak Xmas anthem “Our Greats”. Sign-up to GARUWA’s newsletter for deadly stories 🔗 __ Editor: Rah Dakota @RahDakota 🎥 @AndyAmanaki, @JoshYoouAre, @Ryan_Andrew_Lee, @MsSkyBird & @TysonFPerkinsDP ✍🏽Animators: @SteffieYee, @CaityLeeMotion & @ItsSharin
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Tote bags x indigenous spaces x radical imaginaries = My favourite things🫰🏼
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Holding Space @holdingspace_project is absolutely beautiful, moving, contemplative and so gentle in its immersive love letter to Cummergunja. Go see it before it closes this Sunday! It’s at Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Lonsdale St, Naarm. Congratulations to @apryl_louise4 @jirra.lulla and all the Elders, bubbas, family and Cummera community in it. 🖤🖤🖤 @yirramboi
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✨PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT✨ We are so excited to announce the Koorie Youth Summit and the Holding Space Project will be joining up to hold a screening of: HOLDING S P A C E   A love letter to Cummergunja and the Barmah Forest. Land holds memories of grief and joy, it tells our stories of resilience and love.   HOLDING S P A C E is a film, photography, and visual art installation exploring connections to place and the emotions Country evokes. Through visual storytelling Apryl Day and Jirra Lulla say thank you to their Elders, for nurturing connections and passing down knowledge, so future generations always have a place to come home to.  Apryl Day is a Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba, and Barapa Barapa woman, creative, and advocate for justice and systemic reform. After the passing of her mother, Aunty Tanya Day, in police custody, she led the campaign to decriminalise public drunkenness in Victoria. As founder of the Dhadjowa Foundation, she supports family-led justice campaigns. Her creative work honours culture and community through storytelling, blending art and activism. Jirra Lulla is a Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri woman from Cummergunja and Narrandera Sandhills. She is the founder of Kalinya Studios, a design and strategy company centring Indigenous knowledge in city-making. With a background in media, arts leadership, and innovation, Jirra works toward a regenerative future where cities are in harmony with Country. ✨✨✨ The screening will be held at Dharnya Centre on the 19th May. Register today and witness the strength of Elder’s, their Country, stories and the incredible work behind HOLDING S P A C E ✨
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“A Powerful New Exhibition Honouring Grief, Joy + Country” Thank you @thedesignfiles for a beautiful article about HOLDING S P A C E. Link in bio
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H O L D I N G S P A C E on now daily until 11 May 9AM - 5PM 🖤
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Naarm dump. Great to see some films I worked on with @ga.ru.wa and meet a few people down here on Wurundjeri country for @yirramboi - which is still on until May 11 if you’re down this way. It’s been a privilege to hear stories and be welcomed into smoking ceremonies and welcomed on country here 🙌 / Also side note it was great to see Dutton lose his seat- suck it - you’ll never get to stand in front of an Aboriginal flag you 🍆 head #alwayswasalwayswillbe🖤💛❤️
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@HoldingSpace_Project for @Yirramboi at Queen Victoria Women’s Centre. In this ode to Cummeragunja and the Barmah Forest, Apryl Day (Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Barapa Barapa) and Jirra Lulla Harvey (Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri) say thank you to their Elders for nurturing connections and passing down knowledge, so future generations always have a place to come home to. Storytellers: Aunty Rochelle Patten,Aunty Denise Morgan-Bulled, Aunty Dorothy Taylor, Aunty Sonia Cooper, Aunty Monica Morgan and Uncle Colin Walker Creative Directors: @Apryl_Louise4 and @Jirra.Lulla Producer: @KSat21 Cinematographer: @Ryan_Andrew_Lee Editor: @RahDakota Production Design: @Apryl_Louise4 and @Jirra.Lulla Colour by: @MoodLab.FilmLooks Colourist: @CJDobson_CSI_Colourist Original Music and Sound Mix: Jai Pyne @JaiDanielPyne Photographer: @Evoisevo Imagery: @KadeemWarrior
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