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ACT: Bipotaim: Stories from the Torres Strait - 1 February 2012
ACT: Off the Walls - 1 February 2012
NSW: Buried City - 1 February 2012
NSW: I'm Your Man - 1 February 2012
NSW: Rites Here! Right Now! - 1 February 2012
NSW: Travelling Colony - 1 February 2012
NT: Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu - 1 February 2012
QLD: Flash Woman Art Exhibition - 1 February 2012
SA: Long Way Home - 1 February 2012
SA: Ricky Maynard, ALIAN, Papunya Tjupi Arts - 1 February 2012
SA: Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal women's fibre work - 1 February 2012
VIC: Our Children, Our Future - 1 February 2012
VIC: Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art - 1 February 2012
NATIONAL: The Straits - 2 February 2012
NSW: Passion, Power, Politics - 2 February 2012
VIC: Yalukit Willam Ngargee Indigenous Arts & Cultural Festival - 4 February 2012
NATIONAL: The Tall Man SBS Premiere and DVD Release - 8 February 2012
VIC: National Indigenous Photo-Media Forum - 8 February 2012
VIC: The Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival - 10 February 2012
ACT: Indigenous Showcase of the National multicultural Festival - 11 February 2012
NSW: TJ Hickey - eight years since his death, still no justice! - 14 February 2012
SA: Vibe 3on3 - 16 February 2012
VIC: Making Connections - an evening of films, music and speakers - 17 February 2012
VIC: Riverboat Music Festival - 17 February 2012
SA: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander welcome, showcase and networking session - 28 February 2012
SA: Deadly: in-between heaven and hell - 28 February 2012
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These are all the events listed for February 2012 in All States
1 February 2012 to 14 September 2012
ACT: Bipotaim: Stories from the Torres Strait
Bipotaim: Stories from the Torres Strait is an exhibition of striking photographs, stories and objects about the lives, culture and identity of Torres Strait Islanders
1 February 2012 to 10 June 2012
ACT: Off the Walls
Off the Walls: Art from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Agencies 1967 - 2005 takes you into the world of Indigenous art, and the politics and history of a time of great change
11 February 2012 to 12 February 2012
ACT: Indigenous Showcase of the National multicultural Festival
The National Multicultural Festival is Canberra's premier cultural event, which actively involves over 200 community groups, local and national arts groups, up to 70 diplomatic missions, numerous businesses and over 200,000 people who attend over 150 activities and events over the three day period
1 February 2012 to 5 February 2012
NSW: I'm Your Man
This summer, Belvoir's Downstairs Theatre will be converted into a boxing gym: a place of dreams, of glory, of a better life featuring Billy Mcpherson
1 February 2012 to 5 February 2012
NSW: Buried City
In a gutted building primed for development, a group of security workers, labourers and a local teenager are getting set for a showdown over who builds the future and who gets to own it
1 February 2012 to 4 March 2012
NSW: Travelling Colony
Travelling Colony is a major new work by Brook Andrew, whose interdisciplinary arts practice travels internationally. For two decades this celebrated artist has been creating astonishing interventions into history through installation and interactive monuments, playfully seducing audiences into new ways of seeing compelling issues of race, consumerism and history
1 February 2012 to 22 February 2012
NSW: Rites Here! Right Now!
Photography Exhibition of Protest and Performance by Kamilaroi woman, Barbara McGrady
2 February 2012 to 17 March 2012
NSW: Passion, Power, Politics
Bronwyn Bancroft is a notable Bundjalung artist with over thirty years in her practise
14 February 2012
NSW: TJ Hickey - eight years since his death, still no justice!
TJ died in Waterloo in February 2004. His bike was rammed by a Redfern Police vehicle driven. There has been a Coronial enquiry cover-up, police and Government cover-ups, and continuous protests, but 8 years later still no Justice for the young Aboriginal man and his Family
1 February 2012 to 15 July 2012
NT: Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu
'Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu' is a groundbreaking exhibition presenting the mythological, environmental and historical significance of the major site Yalangbara, in north-east Arnhem Land. This is the first Indigenous art exhibition to focus upon one clan's ancestral land. It is also the first major survey show for the talented Marika family, one of Australia's foremost artistic dynasties
1 February 2012 to 30 April 2012
QLD: Flash Woman Art Exhibition
Discover an eclectic, vibrant and stylish collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's favourite fashion pieces in this special exhibition
1 February 2012 to 19 February 2012
SA: Long Way Home
An Aboriginal art exhibition in celebration of the Yunggorendi First Nations Centre at Flinders University, showcasing Indigenous artwork from across the country. Free and all welcome.
1 February 2012 to 19 February 2012
SA: Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal women's fibre work
Tayenebe, a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning 'exchange', celebrates the revitalisation of Tasmanian Aboriginal weaving that has been taking place in recent years
1 February 2012 to 12 February 2012
SA: Ricky Maynard, ALIAN, Papunya Tjupi Arts
Ricky Maynard is a leading Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer. He lives on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland
16 February 2012
SA: Vibe 3on3
The National Indigenous 3on3 Basketball and Hip Hop Challenge - the Vibe 3on3 - is a traveling sport and music festival that brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous people for a fun day of basketball, dancing and music
28 February 2012
SA: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander welcome, showcase and networking session
The Australia Council for the Arts invite you to celebrate a unique experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and culture
28 February 2012 to 25 March 2012
SA: Deadly: in-between heaven and hell
A major exhibition of newly commissioned works by eight leading Australian Aboriginal artists and collectives
2 February 2012 to 29 March 2012
NATIONAL: The Straits
Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly humorous crime drama
8 February 2012
NATIONAL: The Tall Man SBS Premiere and DVD Release
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, a tropical paradise in Australia's Far North. It is the story of Cameron Doomadgee, who in 2004 was arrested for swearing at Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley - the 'tall man' of the title. 45 minutes later, Doomadgee was dead
1 February 2012 to 12 February 2012
VIC: Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art
This important exhibition features 200 of the first paintings produced at Papunya in 1971 to 72 by the founding artists of the Western Desert art movement
1 February 2012 to 5 February 2012
VIC: Our Children, Our Future
An exhibition by Koorie children and youth that celebrates the strength, diversity and vibrancy of Victorian Aboriginal culture
4 February 2012 to 9 February 2012
VIC: Yalukit Willam Ngargee Indigenous Arts & Cultural Festival
Yalukit Willam Ngargee will kick off the nine-day St Kilda Festival with an action packed program of free Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander music, dance, arts, children's activities and more
8 February 2012 to 10 February 2012
VIC: National Indigenous Photo-Media Forum
The Forum will present emerging and established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander photographers and photo-media artists with the opportunity to join key photographic and photo-media industry specialists, artists and educators from across Australia
10 February 2012 to 12 February 2012
VIC: The Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival
The inaugural Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival is set to open with Troy Cassar-Daley taking to the Federation Square stage to kick off the three day event
17 February 2012
VIC: Making Connections - an evening of films, music and speakers
Outdoor screening of 'Our Generation', a documentary made by Sinem Saban & Damien Curtis about the NT Intervention; and a short film about the Kimberley Campaign opposing the proposed Gas Hub at James Price Point
17 February 2012 to 19 February 2012
VIC: Riverboat Music Festival
With the Murray River basin flush with new life comes Riverboats Music Festival, full to the brim with great Aussie acts and a ticket price that will stoke your musical fires without breaking the bank...
