Naidoc Week “Stories in our Minds and Eyes” at Gallery Coinciding with NAIDOC Week at Cowra Regional Art Gallery is the indigenous art-themed exhibition, Warakurna: All the Stories Got into our Minds and Eyes. Running until July 31, this is a striking collection Aboriginal community and help all Australians of paintings produced at Warakurna, a community understand their complex history,” said Dr at the foot of the Rawlinson Ranges in Mathew Trinca, the director of the National Western Australia, 300 kilometres west of Uluru Museum of Australia in Canberra. (Ayers Rock). Western Desert people were among the last This Western Desert community is situated groups of Aboriginal people in Australia to have near the meeting of the borders of Western contact with Europeans. Warakurna lay in the Australia, South Australia and the Northern middle of the flight path of missiles launched from Territory. The works are the product of Woomera in the South Australian desert in the Warakurna Artists, a thriving art centre in the 1960s. heart of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. This is a National Museum of Australia Travelling The paintings in the Warakurna exhibition are Exhibition, supported by Visions of Australia, an more figurative in style than traditional Western Australian Government program supporting Desert art. The artists from Warakurna use their touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance painting to document their history – the coming for the development and touring of Australian of explorers, prospectors and missionaries, cultural material across Australia. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, building roads, missile testing and their return to 10am to 4pm and Sunday 2pm to 4pm. their homeland. Entry is free. For more information, “These paintings provide first-hand accounts call 6340 2190. of significant events which shaped the lives of an
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Thursday 7 July
Yalbillinga Open Day 10am to 2pm
Free BBQ, jumping castle, face painting, craft
Friday 8 July
CINC Family Fun Day at River Park and Kendal Street March (depart Squire Park) 11am to 2pm
Saturday 9 July
Community Awards Night
Cowra Services Club @ 7pm
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Camel Cull, 2012, by Eunice Yunurupa Porter, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 101 cm. Courtesy Warakurna Artists, from the collection of the National Museum, of Australia.