NAIDOC Week 2020
Always Was, Always Will Be
Sovereign Ideas (Premiere)
10am, Tuesday 10 November AEDT – Years 9 - 12
Join a panel of iconoclastic young Indigenous Australian cultural thinkers and leaders including Emily Johnson, Corey Tutt, Lille Madden and DOBBY in this unique NAIDOC event for secondary school students.
Guwanyi Walama: Kids Tour
WATCH NOW – Years 3 - 6
Join our Indigenous tour guides on a journey into the history and culture of Bennelong Point in this digital tour created especially for kids! This digital experience will deepen kids understanding of Aboriginal history in connection to the place where the Sydney Opera House now stands.
Badu Gili - Celebrating First Nations Culture
WATCH NOW – Years K - 12
Each night at sunset, Badu Gili would light up the eastern Bennelong Sail with ancient First Nations stories in a spectacular seven-minute projection. As the lights are dimmed on the sails, we bring you Badu Gili to your classroom.
Indigenous Literacy Day 2020
WATCH NOW – Years K - 6
A very special digital event for early learners featuring Australia’s favourite pop star, Jessica Mauboy - in two Indigenous languages, Tiwi, Mangarrayi, and English. Plus share a book reading of Yu Sabi Densdensbad? (Can you Dance?) in Kriol, by Cheryl Lardy and in English by Justine Clarke, and more.
Karen Manbulloo and Herbie Hancock read Moli det bigibigi
WATCH NOW – Years K - 2
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock joins Binjari author and artist Karen Manbulloo to read her book Moli det bigibigi (Molly the Pig), as part of the 2019 Indigeous Literacy Foundation’s Community Literacy Program.
Muggera Dance Party
WATCH NOW – Years K - 6
Hold your very own dance party with Daz and Jax Compton, stars of the popular TV show Move it Mob Style as you learn contemporary Indigenous and hip-hop infused dance moves.
DANCE RITES Online
11 - 14 & 21 November – Years 7 - 12
Join us online for the heats and finals of the DANCE RITES competition as First Nations dancers from around Australia come together to share their cultural knowledge and compete to win.
House Call podcast
Episode 1: Before the House with Rhoda Roberts
Years 2 - 6
What was there, before the Sydney Opera House was there?
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful building with a funny-looking roof that existed in Sydney Harbour. Wait, that can’t be right. Tune into this episode to hear all about the rich Indigenous history that existed in Sydney long before the Opera House was built.
Savoury style damper recipe
Years K - 6
- 2 cups of self raising flour
- A pinch of salt
- 2 teaspoons of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of Olive Oil – extra virgin is best
- Slice finely 10 olives (cut out the seeds)
- Ground black pepper
- Sesame seeds (as many as you want)
- 3/4 cup milk or water
- Add all the dry ingredients together with olive oil and mix
- Start needing the bread and add the milk or water
- When cooked in ashes you need to flatten the area with a flat stick; pat it down
- Place the mixture for about 10 minutes on the ashes
- Cover the whole damper and its top with the ashes and cook for about 20 - 30 minutes
- You often tell when it's just right by tapping the damper and it will sound hollow. Suprisingly the ashes will brush off when it's ready.
“I was taught to bake this by my grandmother in open coals... the best time to cook is after the fire has burnt down and its all the hot coals, and her secret was if sticky when kneading, add more flour so at the end you can hold it up and doesn't break.”
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Resources
The Opera House’s Teacher Resources provide inspirational activities to watch, listen and read for students in the classroom or learning at home. Teachers should adapt these resources to suit the student age, stage and the lesson outcomes desired.
Maths of the Sydney Opera House
Join award-winning maths teacher, author and Wootube star Eddie Woo on a marvellous adventure around the Opera House uncovering the mathematical concepts behind the construction and design solutions of building.
The Artificial Reef Project
Discover what's living in the water around the Opera House, learn about the project to protect it and ways you can help build a more sustainable future.
From our House to yours
Bring our stages to your sofa with our new digital program delivered weekly from our House to yours.