Once the economic heartbeat of La Perouse, The Loop connected community across generations through the exchange of ideas, creative practices and cultural heritage. Join us as La Perouse Museum honors this legacy through an exciting new public program series, The Loop, launching with a full day of hands-on workshops and artist talks that center ecology, culture and Country, drawing together three new exhibitions at the Museum

10:00-10:30am | Breakfast + Coffee

La Perouse Museum, Front Lawn

10:30-11:15am | Posidonia Walk + Talk

Join Operation Posidonia and the Gamay Rangers for a walk and talk to learn more about the seagrass Posidonia australis and the work being done to restore this endangered population in Gamay/Botany Bay. Come along to find out how you too can help restore this important ecosystem by collecting seagrass fragments from local beaches that we can then replant.

La Perouse Museum, Front Lawn

11:30-12:30pm | Weaving with Ngaire Pakai

Join First Nations Project Space recipient, Wiradjuri/Maori artist Ngaire Pakai for a hands-on weaving workshop, and learn about the materials and processes that are central to Ngaire's practice, and which are on display in her solo exhibition, Way of Waybarra.

La Perouse Museum, Front Lawn

12:30-1:00pm | BBQ Lunch

La Perouse Museum, Front Lawn

1:00-1:30pm | Artist Talk with Annelies Jahn and Jane Burton Taylor

Join Annelies Jahn and Jane Burton Taylor to hear first-hand insights into the collaborative processes behind their exhibition; Habitat is an ecological gesture of decolonisation, an immersive exhibition that provides an intimate view and experience of the habitat that sustains us, celebrating the local ecology of Gamay.

Level 1, Bayview Gallery

1:30-2:00pm | Artist Talk with Ngaire Pakai

Join artist Ngaire Pakai as she discusses her collection of weaving - Way of Waybarra. At the core of Ngaire’s practice is a connection to the teachers before her and the community who have taught her the patience, care and storytelling that takes place while weaving.

Level 1, First Nations Project Space

2:00-3:00pm | Slide Talk with Dr Peter McKenzie

Join La Perouse Museum Elder-in-Residence Dr Peter McKenzie for a presentation of slides documenting the long journey of six artists from the Yuendumu Community in the Northern Territory to Paris for Magiciens de la Terre (Magicians of the Earth), a landmark exhibition of global contemporary art held at the Centre George Pompidou and La Halle de la Villette, Paris, in 1989. Peter will talk about his role on the curatorial team and share his own photographs from that time, some of which are included in LA+ 001 | McKenzie + Croft.

Ground Level, Community Galleries

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