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The Town's 2026 Kaatijiin Screening follows on from the successful 2024 and 2025 instalments. 

Noongar for knowledge, 'Kaatijiin' is an apt name for these film screenings, which offer an intimate and thought-provoking look into tales of Country and the people on it. 

Our next film, "Genocide in the Wildflower State", will screen May 2026. Survivors give vivid and at times heartbreaking testimony of cruel isolation, abuse and humiliation in the system that spawned the Stolen Generations between 1905 and 1972. Their accounts are key to truth telling and supported by documentary evidence from state records, public archives and historical scholarship.

More details to come.

Banner artwork by Roni Forrest.

The films...

Breathing Life into Boodja 

PAST EVENT | Connect Victoria Park

A galvanising portrayal of the large-scale environmental achievements being made by community groups, Aboriginal communities, conservation landholders, farmers and scientists as they work to restore and heal land around the Porongurup and Stirling Ranges in south-western Australia.

After the film: See what’s happening in our backyard, with a discussion with Emeritus Professor Simon Forrest and Noongar artist and educator Roni Forrest showcasing the 2025 cultural burn of Hillview Bushland.

Genocide in the Wildflower State

UP NEXT: Friday 29 May | 6-7.30pm | Victoria Park Library

In springtime diverse and beautiful wildflowers bloom along roadsides leading to the many Native Missions and State institutions in Western Australia that once served effectively as concentration camps for Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents.

Booking information to come

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