Walk: Down City Streets
Redfern: 21 February 2015
11.00 – 12.00
- Gather at Redfern Terrace at 36 Caroline Street and The Block community mural (designed by Reko Rennie, 2013). If wet weather: Ground Floor room, Redfern Community Centre, 29-53 Hugo Street.
- Welcome to Country and talk by Gadigal elder, Uncle Chicka Madden.
- Walk guided by Lee Davison and Nathan Moran, Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council
- Cross the ground in front of Redfern Community Centre (nearby Aboriginal flag mural painted by Alex Tui in 2000)
- Down Louis Street (the Block)
- Right into Vine Street past Elouera Gym and former Auntie Polly Smith Centre
- Right into Eveleigh to Holden St to former Community Development Employment Program (CDEP)
- Back onto Eveleigh past Murawina, former childcare centre
- Up to Lawson Street, Aboriginal Housing Company (Pemulwuy Project)
- Over the railway bridge, passing the 40,000 Years mural (designed by Carol Ruff, 1983)
- Down Redfern Street Laneway past GCA (formerly TNT) Towers
12.00 – 1.00
- Down Cope Street to Gadigal Information Service, home of Koori Radio (architects: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer; Cherry Pickers exterior artwork by Adam Hill).
- Near Wyanga Aboriginal Aged Care and Mission Boy Dreams mural (designed by Roy Kennedy)
- Through to Renwick Street: Aboriginal Dance Theatre, Redfern, next to the old Black Theatre site.
- Up Renwick Street to site of original NSW Aboriginal Land Council
- Cross Redfern Street and continue down Renwick Street to Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council.
- Out onto George Street and back up to Redfern Street
1pm Lunch at first floor, 107 Projects, 107 Redfern Street, catered by The Gatehouse Café.
2pm Roundtable discussion amongst participants.
Down City Streets 