First Nations Futures

First Nations Futures

  • 24 Aug 2026
  • 06:30pm - 07:45pm
  • General Admission: $10 (+booking fee) / BLAKTIX: Free
  • Capitol Theatre
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In partnership with Now or Never and Yirramboi, RMIT presents First Nations Futures, a conversation exploring how new worlds are imagined into being through storytelling, visual language and acts of creative resistance. Featuring Allara Briggs Pattison, Axel Garay, April Phillips and Hayden Ryan.

What does a whole new world look like when it's shaped by First Nations artists? 

This conversation explores how new worlds are imagined into being through storytelling, visual language and acts of creative resistance. Across evolving practices and future-facing ideas, we consider how First Nations artists expand our understanding of what is possible: holding past, present and future in the same frame. 

Bringing together contemporary First Nations voices, the panel looks at how AI and digital realms are reshaping creative practice. As artists move through these shifting technologies, they navigate questions of authorship, control and cultural knowledge in increasingly complex digital spaces.  

Presented by Now or Never with RMIT University and Yirramboi

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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