Tracks & Wings: Painting with Thelma Beeton

Name: Tracks & Wings: Painting with Thelma Beeton
Start: 2025-08-02T13:00:00+1000
End: 2025-08-02T15:30:00+1000
Location: Blak Dot Gallery

Sat, 2 Aug, 1pm - 2pm AEST

Blak Dot Gallery

Brunswick VIC, Australia

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Two free painting workshops for kids aged 5-10!

Session 1: 1:00 - 2:00pm
Session 2: 2:30 - 3:30pm

Join Palawa artist Thelma Beeton for a fun and colourful painting workshop inspired by her cultural totem, the rraykana (Tasmanian emu), and her signature buzzing bees!

Kids will learn how Thelma uses bright colours and bold shapes to tell stories of family, place and identity. Then they'll get to create their own emu or bee paintings to take home.

🎨 All materials provided
🍎 Light snacks included
☕ Grown-ups welcome to stay and join in or take a break nearby

Free event but bookings essential - only 10 spots per session available!

Perfect for curious young artists aged 5 - 10 years old.

Click here for more information about Thelma's exhibition, rraykana - showing now until August 3.

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Blak Dot Gallery

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Blak Dot Gallery, based in Narrm (Melbourne), is the leading gallery for contemporary First Nations art in Australia. Blak Dot Gallery was established in 2011 as a contemporary First Nations artist-run space to showcase contemporary artworks from world Indigenous cultures.

Blak Dot Gallery enables First Nations people to continually re-define and evolve contemporary culture through First Nations art, culture and cultural protocols. Blak Dot Gallery works with a strong network of First Nations artists from all over Victoria and Australia and has an ongoing commitment to ensuring First Nations artists have opportunities and access to a professional gallery environment. We deliver a vibrant and innovative exhibition schedule, catering to solo, group and community work, host regular community events, workshops, panel discussions, lectures, artists markets, and we are an a core participant to six major arts festivals across Melbourne which facilitates the engagement of Blak Dot’s community with a wider audience. Through Blak Dot Gallery, First Nations artists who work in non-traditional and mixed-media, have an opportunity to present their interpretation of lived experiences in contemporary society.