ABORIGINAL CORPORATION
Blak Markets is back live on Bare Island on Saturday 13 November 2021 kicking off at 11.30am and running through till 5.00pm.
CEO, Peter Cooley, said "We're so happy to be back and be able to meet our community of Blak Markets stallholders, visitors, and entertainers who make up the Blak Markets family.” Peter said.
"We're really proud that the Blak Markets have proved to be a big success for both visitors to the Markets and our stallholders over such a long period. La Perouse has a long history of being an Aboriginal Destination in Sydney and we are rekindling the fires that were lit by the original Aboriginal Families that used to make and sell their Cultural wares along the La Perouse loop".
The Blak Markets is a great chance to buy authentic and unique gifts knowing that 100% of the profits are going back into Aboriginal communities. This Blak markets features Aboriginal stallholders selling Arts, Crafts and bushfoods including Native Plants, award winning Jewellery and Pure Silk Scarves.
The Blak Markets will kick off Saturday afternoon with a welcome to country and performances by Marcus Corowa and Traditional Aboriginal Cultural group Milan Dhiiyaan. We will have a bushfood cooking demonstration by Indigenous Executive Chef, Matthew Atkins, of Plate Events, who will profile some of the amazing native ingredients developed by First Nations Businesses around Australia along with bushfood talks with IndigiGrow.
The Blak Markets are conducted in partnership with Randwick City Council and are held in Kamay-Botany Bay National Park and supported by Suncorp..
Blak Markets is a Covid-19 Safe event and all attendees are required to be double vaccinated and register for the event. Please register your attendance at eventbrite and pay the gate https://www.facebook.com/events/294391088887540/
Attendees will be required to sign in with the event QR code and maintain social distance.
All proceeds raised go towards employing local Indigenous youth
11:30 AM
MARKETS OPEN
12:30 PM
Welcome to Country, Smoking Ceremony and Mayors talk
1:00 PM
Traditional Aboriginal Dance Performance by Milan Dhiiyaan
1:45 PM
Singing performance by Marcus Corowa
2:15 PM
Cooking demonstration Plate Events
3:00 PM
Singing performance by Marcus Corowa
4:00 PM
Traditional Aboriginal Dance Performance by Milan Dhiiyaan
5:00 PM
MARKETS CLOSE
For more information, images and interviews, please contact:
Blak Markets Team | Mobile: 0427 824 059 | Email: stalls.firsthand@gmail.com
Our Blak Markets Social Enterprise enables us to celebrate,employ, train and provide enterprise opportunity for local indigenous people.
Blak Markets is a proven social enterprise business model that provides a space and opportunity for Aboriginal people to reconnect to culture, gain employment & training, engage with young Aboriginal people, build community capacity and support small business development & growth.
In our six years of operations we are proud to see the Blak markets grow from humble beginnings to major regular events across Sydney and an annual National Indigenous Art Fair which invites remote artists to join our marketplace