Sat, 25 Oct
|UTS Building 7 - The Green Theatre - L2
Death of a Memorial | Critical Forum
A day of talks, poetry, and workshops exploring truth, memory, and resistance in First Nations art and history at UTS.
Time & Location
25 Oct 2025, 12:30 pm – 5:00 pm
UTS Building 7 - The Green Theatre - L2, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia
About the event
Death of a Memorial: Critical Forum
Saturday 25 October | UTS Green Theatre
Curated by Nathan mudyi Sentance, Death of a Memorial: Critical Forum brings together leading First Nations poets, curators, artists, and academics for a day of conversations, poetry, and making that explore truth, memory, and resistance.
Through panels, performances, and acts of creation, the forum asks how we remember, commemorate, and resist, and how art can challenge what W.E.H. Stanner called the “cult of forgetfulness” and “the Great Australian Silence.”
The day begins at 12:30pm with Memory as Living Practice: Weaving with Jodie Dowd. Noongar weaver Jodie Dowd invites participants to create a bracelet or basket woven throughout the afternoon, each stitch an act of remembering that carries the day’s conversations forward.
At 1:00pm, Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor delivers a Welcome to Country, grounding the program in respect and connection to place.