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Art exhibition brings Australian indigenous stories to the city

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The capital received a vibrant dose of Australian First Nations culture on Friday as Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters opened at the Humayun’s Tomb Museum.

Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters (Raajessh kashyap)

The exhibition presents five sections of Indigenous Western and Central Desert songlines through nearly 300 paintings, objects, song, dance, photography, and multimedia. It tells the story of the Seven Sisters, or the Pleiades star cluster, fleeing across the desert while pursued by a powerful, shape-shifting male Ancestor linked to Orion. At the heart of the exhibition is the Songline, a spiritual and physical map defining sacred landscapes and preserving Tjukurrpa, or Aboriginal law, history, and survival knowledge. The journey spans three Indigenous lands: the APY (Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) people in the central desert, the Ngaanyatjarra in the west, and the Martu in north-west Australia.

“Australia has three main stories” said Philip Green, adding, “Settlers from Britain, migrants, and our Indigenous people, whose culture has thrived for 65,000 years. This exhibition brings that history, art, and tradition to life.”

One of the highlights of the evening was the immersive dome theatre that showcased animated paintings. The exhibition runs from 22 November 2025 to 1 March 2026.

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Massive Attack Announce Brazil Concert Supporting Indigenous Rights and Climate Justice
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Massive Attack Announce Brazil Concert Supporting Indigenous Rights and Climate Justice

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Massive Attack will perform at the São Paulo arena Espaco Unimed, on a bill with the Sepultura side project Cavalera, on Thursday, November 13. They timed the event to coincide with the COP30 International Climate Change Summit taking place in the Brazilian city of Belém. The bands partnered with the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon to put on the show, in support of their fight to achieve climate justice and secure immediate recognition and protection for Indigenous lands.

Representatives of Indigenous movements will appear at the event itself, a press release notes, and the two bands will also work within Brazil to support Amazonian Indigenous movements. Sepultura founders Max and Iggor Cavalera will perform the band’s Chaos AD album in full at the show.

Robert “3D” Del Naja added that he is honored to work with the brothers “in support of the extraordinary integrity and vital role of the Indigenous people of Brazil and the wider Amazon region. This is more than a passing of the mic. It’s an opportunity to listen to the knowledge, moral authority and wisdom of the Indigenous alliances and help ensure they are heard in the negotiation rooms of COP30. We’ve never needed their presence within that distorted political space as much as we do right now.”

The announcement comes with a joint statement from three Indigenous bodies: the G9, the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon, and the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil. It reads: “We, Indigenous peoples, step onto the stage as if lighting an ancient fire in the heart of the night. Together with Massive Attack and Cavalera, we turn sound into uprising. Our voices—alive, ancestral, untamed—will cut through the air, cross every border, and unite peoples, from the Amazon to the Pacific. We are the roots that resist, the future that insists. We have never left. We are here to remind you: The Earth remembers. And through us, it demands—dismantle the machine that devours her. The answer is already here. It rises from the very ground we walk together. The Answer Is Us. All of us. And we will advance.”

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