The exhibition Irrapinarna showcases the cultural tool-making practices of three young Kaurna men: Isaac Hannam, Drew Kilner, and Bryce Cawte. As emerging community leaders, they bring over a decade of experience developing skills and knowledge grounded in Kaurna traditional cultural practices.
Nexus Arts Gallery is open Tuesday-Friday 10am – 4pm.
Join the students of CASM (Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music) at Nexus on 10 July for a special NAIDOC Week performance celebrating creativity, collaboration and community. Featuring original songs, reimagined covers, duo and band performances, class collaborations and special guests, the show highlights the next generation of First Nations artists.
Aligned with this year’s NAIDOC Week theme, ‘50 Years of Deadly’, the concert also celebrates more than 50 years of CASM’s legacy, bringing together powerful storytelling and music across rap, hip hop, country, pop, electronic, rock, blues and reggae.
Stories of Water and Earth features Yuwaalaraay woman Nardi Simpson alongside a quartet of Ensemble Offspring’s genre bending instrumentalists, weaving together instrumental chamber music, long term collaboration, dreaming stories and reimagined times.
This hour-long show features a performance of Freshwater Woman by Nardi Simpson, where she shares Yuwaalaraay women’s creative and cultural practice through song and interactive moments. To complement and give context to this 40-minute work, a handful of deadly works from the last 10 years of Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers will speak to country and culture.
