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Sorry day and National Reconciliation Week

2025 National Day of Healing (Sorry Day) Commemorative Flag Raising Morning Tea and Exhibition

The City of Ballarat, BADAC and CAFS will commemorate the National Day of Healing (Sorry Day) and Reconciliation Week 2025 with a powerful photographic exhibition as guided by Ballarat Elder Uncle Murray Harrison and Stolen Generations survivors.


Commemorative Flag Raising EVENT 

When: 9:15am, Monday 26th May

Where: BADAC Market St Carpark and entry via 108 Armstrong St, Ballarat Central

  • BADAC, City of Ballarat, CAFS and Wadawurrung invite one and all.
  • Smoking Ceremony to commemorate this significant date


9:45am Morning Tea and Pathways to Healing Yarning Circle in the BADAC Tree Room

  • Local Community Members featured in exhibition - Aunty Charmaine Clarke and Peter Kennedy Jnr, Photographer David G. Jones and 
  • Sorry Day flower craft and badge making


Loan of The TAKEN exhibition is generously provided by photographer and author David G. Jones. We will have, with permissions granted by survivors from Ballarat including Uncle Murray Harrison, Charmaine Clarke and Peter Kennedy and families, a small selection of the images exhibited at BADAC's Tree Room from 26th May to early June 2025. 


The selection of the Taken photographs on exhibition features local and national Stolen Generations victims from across Australia. This important photo book can be loaned from Ballarat and Central Highlands libraries with a library membership.


Questions: contact LenkaVanderboom@ballarat.vic.gov.au

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National Reconciliation Week 2025

National Reconciliation Week 2025

National Reconciliation Week 2025

Ballarat Aboriginal community member participating in a Smoking Ceremony for Reconciliation Week
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NAIDOC 2025

National Reconciliation Week 2025

National Reconciliation Week 2025

 A NAIDOC installation in Ballarat's umbrella lane - umbrellas in red yellow and black
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National Day of Healing and National Reconciliation Week

26th May 9:15am BADAC/City of Ballarat Flag-raising and Wadawurrung Cultural Ceremony to mark the National Day of Healing (Sorry Day) 2025 for one and all. Followed by Pathways to Healing Morning Tea Yarning Circle Tree Room at 108 Armstrong Street.

27th May - 4th June - The Taken Exhibition on show at BADAC Tree Room

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Stay tuned for updates to local 2025 National Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC events

2025 Healing (Sorry Day) and Truth-telling

Damascus Sorry Day Event

City of Ballarat collaborative event at BADAC

City of Ballarat collaborative event at BADAC

Annual collaborative event by Loreto College Ballarat, St Patrick's College and Damascus College to mark National Sorry Day.


Monday 26th May 

10am Official Welcome and Smoking Ceremony

Sorry Day Service and VIP Guest Speaker

11:30am Morning tea for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders and community members, students and their families.


Contact: Alex Jameson a.jameson@damascus.vic.edu.au


City of Ballarat collaborative event at BADAC

City of Ballarat collaborative event at BADAC

City of Ballarat collaborative event at BADAC

STAND TOGETHER to mark the anniversary of the tabling of the Bringing them Home Report and to commemorate the children and families impacted by the Stolen Generations policies.

9:15AM Monday 26th May 2025

Flag-Raising Morning Tea and Yarning Circle to mark 

National Day of Healing 

at BADAC


THE TAKEN - Photographic Exhibition 

by David G. Jones in collaboration with Stolen Generations survivors of Australia and will be on show until June 2025 at BADAC Tree Room.


Event co-designed with survivors and 

Uncle Murray Harrison and Charmaine Clarke.

#NRW2025 #LocalStories #StolenGenerations

#SorryDay


contact: lenkavanderboom@ballarat.vic.gov.au

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The Arthur Rylah Institute will be hosting a hybrid seminar Working together to understand the impacts of Cultural Burning at 1pm on Monday 27 May 2024. 

This seminar will feature Blair Gilson (Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation) who will tell us about the cultural burning program on Wadawurrung Country and its cultural significance. 

This will be followed by Dr Brad Farmilo (ARI) who will discuss the monitoring element of the project, and what we have learned so far.

To watch the Recording

Ballarat Reconciliation Events 2024

The Taken Exhibition and Video

BALLARAT LIBRARY EXHIBITION


EXTENDED  to MID JUNE



BALLARAT LIBRARY EXHIBITION


EXTENDED  to MID JUNE


New Book in the Library cataloque is complemented this Reconcilational Week with David G. Jones' photos featuring national and local Stolen Generations survivors. Uncle Murray Harrison calls for you to share this event and to head down and have a look at this collection of powerful images.  

EXTENDED EXHIBITION DATES


FREE


BALLARAT LIBRARY 

DOVETON ST

City of Ballarat Flag Raising followed by Morning Tea Yarning Circle

Monday 27th May

10:30am Flag raising and Wadawurrung Ceremony to mark the Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and the beginning of National Reconciliation Week followed by 11am - 12:15pm:

Morning Tea and Yarning Circle event hosted upstairs at the Trench Room, 

Ballarat Town Hall. Speakers:

  1. Yarrowee River Heritage Project
  2. Yarning Garden
  3. Ballarat Allies 
  4. KEAG Advisory Committee

Create space at your place – gardening for wildlife

Create space at your place – gardening for wildlife

Free Guided Tour

Wednesday 29 May 11.00 am

 45 - 60 minutes 

Dress for all weather

Enjoy the trees and beautiful floral beds of the Botanic Gardens on this guided tour to discover simple ways we can create a safe haven for local native plants and animals in our own gardens. Learn why this is important and how to join the growing band of Garde

Free Guided Tour

Wednesday 29 May 11.00 am

 45 - 60 minutes 

Dress for all weather

Enjoy the trees and beautiful floral beds of the Botanic Gardens on this guided tour to discover simple ways we can create a safe haven for local native plants and animals in our own gardens. Learn why this is important and how to join the growing band of Gardeners For Wildlife.

Venue: Ballarat Botanic Gardens; Meet outside between the Robert Clark Centre and Conservatory (Large Glass House)

Ages: All ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Other: Maximum 20 participants. 

  

Wheelchair accessible tour (some paths can be boggy after rains.)


Free take home information


Contact: anita.kane88@gmail.com

G4WB Facebook Page

Facing Up @ WPAC #NRW2024 special event

CANCELLED EVENT Sunshine Club by Wesley Enoch

Create space at your place – gardening for wildlife

Theatre Event

Tuesday 28th May 7pm

45min play followed by a Q&A


 For community members, educators, secondary and tertiary school groups, and local government representatives and officials committed to learning more about reconciliation, "Facing Up" offers a powerful platform for reflection, dialogue, and collective action. Don't miss this ch

Theatre Event

Tuesday 28th May 7pm

45min play followed by a Q&A


 For community members, educators, secondary and tertiary school groups, and local government representatives and officials committed to learning more about reconciliation, "Facing Up" offers a powerful platform for reflection, dialogue, and collective action. Don't miss this chance to be part of this experience during Reconciliation Week.   


 FACING UP by Lynden Nicholls combines historical records and personal stories to create a compelling theatrical experience. The play presents familiar events, such as the 1967 referendum, the enquiry into Aboriginal deaths in custody, and the Tent Embassy, while also revealing lesser-known, powerful moments that evoke a sense of urgency for change and progress. 

 

DURATION

45 minute show with a 30 minute Q and A

WARNINGS

Facing Up references some incidents in First Nations history that could be upsetting to some.

Suitable for a general audience.


Facing Up in partnership with Wendouree Performing Arts Centre discounted tickets for #NRW2024 

 

CREDITS

WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
Lynden Nicholls

CAST
Trudy Fatnowna Edgeley
Zerene Jaadwa
Shannon Nicholls

CULTURAL ADVISER
Tammy Gilson

EDUCATION PACKAGE

Hermione Higgins and Deb Lowah Clark
(available on request)

Discounted Tickets
Sunshine club poster showing leading couple with The Sunshine Club words in the background.  A young

CANCELLED EVENT Sunshine Club by Wesley Enoch

CANCELLED EVENT Sunshine Club by Wesley Enoch

CANCELLED EVENT Sunshine Club by Wesley Enoch

CANCELLED EVENT 

One show only at 

Ballarat Civic HalL

 

SWING INTO THE SUNSHINE CLUB WHERE EVERYONE IS WELCOME AND ROMANCES BLOOM.

HIT Productions is proud to be presenting this important Australian work in Ballarat.

It’s the summer of 1946, and the war is over. Aboriginal soldier Frank Doyle has spent years fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with 

CANCELLED EVENT 

One show only at 

Ballarat Civic HalL

 

SWING INTO THE SUNSHINE CLUB WHERE EVERYONE IS WELCOME AND ROMANCES BLOOM.

HIT Productions is proud to be presenting this important Australian work in Ballarat.

It’s the summer of 1946, and the war is over. Aboriginal soldier Frank Doyle has spent years fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with troops from all over Australia, but when he steps onto the Brisbane wharf he finds some things haven’t changed. 

Filled with hope and defiance, Frank sets up his own ballroom, The Sunshine Club, where everyone is invited to meet, mingle and sway the night away.

Queensland Theatre audiences first fell in love with The Sunshine Club in 1999. The First Nations artists behind it are now household names. Just when the world needs a beacon of hope, this glorious musical classic is here to leave you grinning and tapping your toes. 

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