NRW Events Calendar 2025

Every year workplaces, schools, early learning services, community groups, reconciliation groups, and people right across the country host a range of activities and events during National Reconciliation Week (NRW).

The dates for NRW are the same each year: 27 May to 3 June. Look through the calendar to see how you can mark NRW at an event near you.

Hosting your own NRW event? Head to the Events page to add it to the calendar.

Please note: the events on this calendar are not the responsibility of Reconciliation Australia. If you have any questions regarding an event, please contact the organisers.

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Yarra Ranges National Reconciliation Week

The Memo 235 Maroondah Hwy, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

Join us for our 2025 National Reconciliation Week event, live from The Memo in Healesville Tue 27 May.

These Entanglements Ecology After Nature Exhibition

UQ Art Museum The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Explore the interconnection between ecology and social systems through Indigenous art, highlighting strategies for survival and cultural healing.

Reconciliation Week Art Exhibition

Birrunga Gallery at Milton Green 19 Cribb Street, Milton, Queensland, Australia

Birrunga Gallery's CCDP National Reconciliation Week Art Exhibition

Reconciliation on the Rooftop

Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library 182 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North, Victoria, Australia

Join Aboriginal Housing Victoria and Yarra Libraries this National Reconciliation Week to recognise the oldest living culture in the world.

Blak Markets

Campbell Place UQ St Lucia The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Blak Markets will be returning to the St Lucia campus for National Reconciliation Week. Stallholders include: - ILF Book Swap - Murrorong Aboriginal Jewellery - Glass Art Dreaming - UQ Press and more! Come support First Nations market stalls, artists and businesses, including the Indigenous Literacy Foundation Book Swap and Cultural Weaving with Auntie Jeannine. […]

First Nations Experiences of Democracy Tour

Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House 18 King George Terrace, PARKES, ACT, Australia

45minute Tour at Old Parliament House

Free Aboriginal Heritage Walk

Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia

Journey into Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, a significant cultural site for the local Kulin Nation, with a First Peoples guide.

Dance Performance Brolga Dance Academy

Six Eighty World Square 680 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

A live dance performance by Brolga Dance Academy showcases First Nation storytelling's incredible talent and creativity through the art of dance. With a deep connection to tradition and a passion for storytelling, their performances offer a unique opportunity for audiences to experience the richness of First Nations culture brought to life by our deadly young, […]

Dance performance by Wadumbah

Brookfield Place Perth 125 St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Wadumbah are an exciting, professional Aboriginal dance group from the South-West of Western Australia. Led by renowned didgeridoo player James T Webb, Wadumbah take pleasure in sharing traditional First Nation culture in Australia. They help people understand and enjoy ancient heritage through music, dance and storytelling. Wadumbah means ‘Big Flood Waters’, and they truly live […]

Stories through time Living cultures enduring connections exhibition

UQ Anthropology Museum The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

In the spirit of considering the 2025 National Reconciliation Week (NRW) theme, Bridging Now to Next, which reflects the ongoing connection between past, present and future, please join UQ Anthropology Museum staff for a guided tour of Stories through time: Living cultures, enduring connections. Image: Untitled 2010. Irene Mbitjana Entata (1946-2014) Arrernte. UQ Anthropology Museum […]

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Paul House with gum leaves and smoke
Paul Girrawah House

Paul Girrawah House has multiple First Nation ancestries from the South-East Canberra region, including the Ngambri-Ngurmal (Walgalu), Pajong (Gundungurra), Wallabollooa (Ngunnawal) and Erambie/Brungle (Wiradyuri) family groups.

Paul acknowledges his diverse First Nation history, he particularly identifies as a descendant of Onyong aka Jindoomang from Weereewaa (Lake George) and Henry ‘Black Harry’ Williams from Namadgi who were both multilingual, essentially Walgalu-Ngunnawal-Wiradjuri speaking warriors and Ngunnawal–Wallaballooa man William Lane aka ‘Billy the Bull’ - Murrjinille.

Paul was born at the old Canberra hospital in the centre of his ancestral country and strongly acknowledges his First Nation matriarch ancestors, in particular his mother Dr Aunty Matilda House-Williams and grandmother, Ms Pearl Simpson-Wedge.

Paul completed a Bachelor of Community Management from Macquarie University, and Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage and Management from CSU.

Paul provided the Welcome to Country for the 47th Opening of Federal Parliament in 2022. Paul is Board Director, Ngambri Local Aboriginal Land Council, Member Indigenous Reference Group, National Museum of Australia and Australian Government Voice Referendum Engagement Group.  

Paul works on country with the ANU, First Nations Portfolio as a Senior Community Engagement Officer

Acknowledgement of Country

Reconciliation Australia acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing  connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present. 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website contains images or names of people who have passed away.

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