Keeping place – Blacktown Native Institution Project

This website provides a keeping place for historical and personal stories, memories, visions for the future, responses to artworks, responses to the BNI site and the BNI Project.

Below you can watch and listen to stories collected throughout the 2014-15 project. To submit your own story please visit our contribute page. If you want any assistance in creating your story, please get in touch – we’re happy to help! Visit more information for terms and conditions of submitting to the website.

Listen: Karla Dickens artist talk

Watch: Leanne Tobin on 'Start Here Now'

Listen: Darren Bell on photography

Listen: Julie & Corina at Artist Camp #2

Listen: Linda Kennedy on 'decolonising design'

Listen: Danny and Jamie Eastwood

Listen: Uncle Greg Simms

Watch: Storytelling with Uncle Wes

Watch: Planting Workshop from Artist Camp #1

DARREN BELL: PORTRAITS

A series of portraits taken by artist Darren Bell at Artist Camp #1 in November 2014. The portraits were taken on the Blacktown Native Institution site in and around the storytelling caravan that was set up for the weekend.