NAIDOC Week Family Day

Celebrate NAIDOC Week Family Day with a Welcome to Country by Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Aboriginal Corporation on the Museum Plaza. Bring along your jacket to keep warm.

Celebrate NAIDOC Week with creativity! Colour, design, and make your own badge inspired by previous NAIDOC Week themes. A fun, hands-on activity for all ages to honour culture, community and connection.

The health of our land and waterways affects the health of everyone, so it’s important we look after Country in whatever way we can for the next generation. Country is much more than soil, rocks, waterways, or trees - it’s a living environment that sustains, and is sustained by, people. 

 Think about ways that you can care for Country, and share your thoughts by writing, colouring and decorating your a Bunjil feather.

About Bunjil 

Bunjil is the Ancestral Wedge-tailed Eagle, the creator. Bunjil created much of south-eastern Australia and the features and animals within it. He also created people, by breathing life into figures moulded from clay. 

The name of Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre was chosen because ‘Bunjilaka’ means 'the place of Bunjil', evoking a sense of ongoing creation. 

Shop at our Blak Market in the Main Foyer with stalls from Haus of Dizzy, Gammin Threads, Baljil Art, Kevin Williams Designs, The Torch, Creed Custom Designs, Katie Bugden Art, and many more. 

Experience a glimpse of Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre and the First Peoples exhibition with 10-minute spot talks by our Cultural Interpreter team. 

Gather the family to the Main Foyer and join us for a spectacular First Peoples group dance performance.  

This year's theme celebrates not only the achievements of the past but the bright future ahead, empowered by the strength of our young leaders, the vision of our communities, and the legacy of our Ancestors. 

Join our First Peoples team, talking about the enduring legacy of First Peoples within cultural institutions and the power of the next generation coming through.