The City of Fremantle and Centre for Stories are proud to announce the return of the Backyard Truth-Telling Series —a multi-site storytelling program bringing powerful and important place-based truth-telling into the backyards of Walyalup/Fremantle. We are pleased to announce our third and final backyard event will be hosted at Randwick Stables

Backyard Truth-Telling showcases emerging and established Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian storytellers, sharing their lived experiences in their own voices and in their own way.

Across three weekends in May, audiences are invited into intimate backyard settings in and around Walyalup/Fremantle to listen to stories that speak to the resilience and self-determination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, confront difficult truths, hidden histories, and reimagined futures.

Please respect this is an Alcohol-free event.

Cuppa's and light super provided. BYO picnic welcome.

Feel free to bring your favourite mug for your cuppa or soup

SCHEDULE

4:30pm Arrive, make a cuppa and settle in
5:00pm Welcome & Smoking with Aunty Geri Hayden
5:15pm MC, Ron Bradfield Jnr. Welcome messages and Storytellers introduced
5:30pm Storytellers
6:30pm Fire, Feed and Yarn
7:30pm Event ends

Please respect this is an active stable with livestock. You are welcome to meet the animals but strictly no entry to any of the stock yards

ACCESS, PARKING AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Bikes welcome!

Parking is available at Walley Hagan Basketball Stadium.

From the carpark, please cross the grassed reserve to the bottom gates of the stable yards

If you are walking or riding your bike down cardigan street you will get to the main gate entrance

Please no parking on Cardigan Street. This entrance parking delegated for elders, staff and ACROD users - please contact host to request Cardigan Street parking delegation.

Public Transport

From Fremantle, catch bus 520, 530, 531 or 549. Alight at Rockingham Road & Cardigan Street stop. Walk 200 meters to end of Cardigan Street / Stables gate entrance

To plan your journey further, visit Your Move | Journey Planner.

Accessibility

Please note the backyard is accessible to wheelchair users (please note is it a grassed area)

The toilet is on ground level but not fully accessible to wheelchair users.

This venue has parking bays at gate entrance. Please contact event host for any of your accessibility requirement or to have a parking bay delegated to ACROD permit holders.

Auslan Interpreters:

We are pleased to announce that the event will feature Auslan interpretation to ensure accessibility for all attendees.

To learn more about City of Fremantle's Truth-Telling Program here or Centre for Stories First Stories program here

Contact the host of Backyard Truth-Telling Series - Randwick Stables