To mark the end of the exhibition Tidal Kin: Stories from the Pacific, join educators from Papua New Guinea and the Cook islands at the Chau Chak Wing Museum.
Celebrate Cook Island Constitution Day with a Cook Islander-led language and dance class, followed by a workshop with Papua New Guinean bilum makers, Joyce Robinson and Grace Hull, to learn about contemporary practices for making this quintessential bag of PNG.
Saturday 3 August
12.30pm - 2pm
CIDA Language and Dance Class
2 - 2.30pm
Bilum workshop
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Joyce Robinson from Goroka has been making bilum most of her life and today passes on these skills to her community in Sydney.
Grace Hull from the Trobriand islands works with primary schools to teach gardening weaving practices.
The Cook Islands Day Australia (CIDA) have been bringing the Cook Islands' culture through language, dance, and music classes to the youth of Sydney since 2019.