Celebrate the beginning of NAIDOC Week with our FREE Morning Tea and experience the latest additions to our evolving community artwork, the Possum Skin Cloak.
NAIDOC Week 2025 marks a powerful milestone—50 years of honouring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture, and resilience.
This year’s theme, The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy, celebrates not only the achievements of the past but also the bright future ahead, empowered by the strength of our young leaders, the vision of our communities, and the enduring legacy of our ancestors.
Join us at the Museum at Inveresk to reflect on this theme and commemorate NAIDOC Week as we unveil the expanded Possum Skin Cloak and its accompanying audiovisual presentation.
This evolving artwork began in 2021 during QVMAG’s Wrapped in Culture exhibition. Over the years—including in 2025—participants have taken part in workshops where they used the traditional art of pyrography to inscribe personal stories, symbols, and designs onto individual squares of possum skin.
At this special free event, we will reveal the newly expanded cloak, a collective piece that tells a powerful story of shared history, cultural identity, and connection.
Following the morning tea, you are warmly invited to join a Making and Yarning session, where you can create Aboriginal bracelets and have a yarn about cultural traditions, the possum skin cloak, and what NAIDOC Week means today.
Workshop dates:
Possum Skin Cloak - Storytelling Workshop 1
Monday 16 June, 10:30am to 12:30pm
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington Street, Launceston
Possum Skin Cloak - Storytelling Workshop 2
Friday 20 June, 1pm to 3pm
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road, Launceston
Possum Skin Cloak - Storytelling Workshop 3
Saturday 21 June, 10:30am to 12:30pm
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington Street, Launceston
Possum Skin Cloak - Stitching It All Together
Monday 23 June, 1pm to 3pm
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road, Launceston
NAIDOC Week Morning Tea
Join us for our free morning tea celebrating the start of NAIDOC Week and the grand reveal of the newly-expanded Possum Skin Cloak.
NAIDOC Week Morning Tea
Sunday 6 July, 10:30am to 11am
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road, Launceston
Also—join us for other NAIDOC Week events at QVMAG:
Yarning and Making
Sit, weave, and yarn with friends old and new in this relaxed, hands-on activity celebrating culture, creativity and connection.
Yarning and Making - Day 1
Sunday 6 July, 11am to 1pm
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road, Launceston
Yarning and Making - Day 2
Monday 7 July, 1pm to 3pm
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington Street, Launceston
Yarning and Making - Day 3
Thursday 10 July, 11am to 1pm
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington Street, Launceston
Yarning and Making - Day 4
Friday 11 July, 1pm to 3pm
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road, Launceston
Through Someone Else's Eyes with Rod Gardner
Chat with Tasmanian Aboriginal artist Rod Gardner as he moves through QVMAG, using the essence of plein air painting to create a series of sketches and paintings responding to our current exhibitions.
Through Someone Else's Eyes - Day 1
Wednesday 9 July, 11am to 1pm
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road, Launceston
Through Someone Else's Eyes - Day 2
Saturday 12 July, 11am to 1pm
Art Gallery at Royal Park, 2 Wellington Street, Launceston
Through Someone Else's Eyes - Day 3
Sunday 13 July, 11am to 1pm
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road, Launceston