Friends of Ireland NAIDOC Presentation
2pm - 4pm Sunday 3 July
National Gallery of Australia
Parkes Place, Canberra ACT
Join Dr Brenda Croft for a fascintaing presentation on First Nations/ Irish heritage, relationships and understandings, Irish harp and didgeridoo, Irish music of Irelandis.
Dr Brenda L Croft is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory of Australia, and Anglo-Australian/German/Irish/Chinese heritage. Brenda lives and works on the unceded sovereign lands of the Ngambri/Ngunnawal Peoples. Brenda’s multi-disciplinary practice-led research encompasses critical performative Indigenous auto-ethnography, representation and identity, Indigenous Storying and creative narratives, installation, multi-media and multi-platform work, particularly a in long-standing engagement with patrilineal family and community members, both on traditional homelands and also as part of dispossessed, Gurindji-affiliated communities.
In 2023 - 24 Brenda will be the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, in a placement with the Department of History of Art and Architecture and Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, while also engaging with colleagues in the Harvard University Native American Program and outside the university.
Venue
Parks Place
National Gallery of Australia
ACT