Blakademy offers a dedicated critical Indigenous learning space for First Nations Creatives and a home for First Nations community collectives. A space run by us for us.
Pasifika Storytellers Collective and Colectiva de Abya Yala will facilitate a First Nations-led weaving circle around the fire to talk about traversal connections across the Pacific Ocean. We gather to share cultural practices of water care and saltwater memories.
La Fiesta de la Charkra - “Winter Solstice Film” is an audiovisual piece that embraces an honest and humble desire to learn and exchange cultural practices and oral traditions from the South Pacific region between Australia, Pacific Islands, and Latin America, our so called Sur-Sur.
This text emerges from deep feelings of and for saltwater. We share our experience of coming together as a fluid conversation through our bodies, our memories and our ancestral connection to salt and fresh waters.