12:00-12:30pm | BBQ Lunch

La Perouse Museum, Front Lawn

12:30-1:30pm | Weaving Workshop + Talk with Numbulwar Numburindi

Join master weavers from the remote community of Numbulwar in South East Arnhem Land for a hands-on weaving workshop. Learn techniques passed down through generations and about Maguj (pandanus) and Nanja (repurposed ghost nets) collected from our shores. Once a deadly threat to marine life, ghost nets are reclaimed by our artists and transformed into vessels of story and strength. As you weave, you're part of a living practice connecting people, place, and purpose. Sit with us, share stories, and take part in keeping these traditions strong.

Free | Materials provided | Bookings required.

Ground Level, Community Galleries

1:30-2:00pm | Poetry Reading with Jazz Money

Join Wiradjuri artist, poet and filmmaker, Jazz Money for an intimate poetry reading in their exhibition, Horizon. Money's cross-disciplinary practice speaks to language, narrative and First Nations’ legacies of place.

Horizon is a dialogue between salt water and fresh water stories. Taking inspiration from the remarkable La Perouse coastal headland, and the artist’s connection to fresh water river systems  as a Wiradjuri woman, Horizon poetically considers the meeting point of waters and stories that thread across this continent. With embroidered organza, bronze, wood, and vinyl the suspended work invites audiences to consider the vast horizon of La Perouse’s headland and people, and their own place within these equally vast stories.

Level 1, First Nations Project Space

2:00-3:30pm | Weaving Workshop + Talk with Malima

Join local family-run business and weaving collective Malima for a string making and fishing net workshop. Over the course of the session, you will use natural fibres to weave string with techniques used to create the collective fishing on display in LA+ 003 | Malima + Numbulwar Numburindi. If you'd prefer to keep your piece of string, you're more than welcome to do so.

Free | Materials provided | Bookings required

Ground Level, Community Galleries

3.30-5:30pm | NearShore Cinema

In My Blood It Runs (2019)

Classification: PG

In My Blood It Runs tells the story of ten-year-old Dujuan, who is harnessing his Ngangkere (healing power), learning the languages and traditions of his ancestors, and trying to figure out his future within a failed system. It is also the story of a family fighting to give its children a strong Arrernte education alongside Australia’s mainstream curriculum.

Filmed over three and a half years, this observational documentary unfolds across Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Sandy Bore Homeland and Borroloola Community in the Northern Territory. While Dujuan struggles in the classroom and finds himself on a path towards incarceration, it is at Sandy Bore, his ancestral homeland, that he could focus, learn and breathe. As he puts it so profoundly, “when you go out bush every week, you learn how to control your anger, and you learn how to control your life – to stop acting like a little kid when you grow up” – one of the many moments in the film where his wisdom touches the audience.

As we follow the quiet and intimate observation of filmmaker Maya Newell, once in a while, our young protagonist picks up the camera, turning its lens towards the people and world around him. Through his eyes, we encounter the vast landscape, his family and his community, and share the joys and struggles of growing up.