Experience Angel’s Palace
This year we invite you to enter Angel’s Palace, inspired by the character of Angel Day from Indigenous author Alexis Wright’s critically-acclaimed novel Carpentaria which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Alexis’ operatic and surreal tale will be brought to life by artist Gordon Hookey as an immersive artwork. Enjoy live performance, storytelling and talks exploring Indigenous art, history and culture.
The Angel’s Palace experience has been made possible through the generous support of the Taylor family.
UPLIT has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland’s Backing Indigenous Arts initiative.
Building Angel’s Palace
Read more about the building of Angel’s Palace, and how the epic artwork, with over 300 square metres of Gordon Hookey’s design, will come to life.
Performances
Events in kuril dhagun
New Histories
Mark McKenna / Michael Aird
Our Voices, Our Way
Rhianna Patrick / Sandy O’Sullivan / Susan Forde & more
Aboriginal Architecture
Timmah Ball / Professor Paul Memmott / Michael Aird & more
Aboriginal Storytelling
Dr Sandra Phillips / Sandra Phillips / Alexis Wright & more
Look Again
Alec Doomadgee / Rebecca Levingston
Reviving Culture
Dr Sandra Phillips / Desmond Crump / Cheryl Leavy & more
Land Rights
Sam Watson / Charlie Ward / Margaret Stephenson & more
Up Close with AQ’s Poet in Residence
Annie Te Whiu / Courtney Sina Meredith
A Night by The Fire
“She thought the dump was magnificent, as anyone dirt poor would. The way she talked you would have thought she was a very rich woman, and it was nothing for her to walk back and forth to the dump two dozen times a day to cart back pieces of sheet iron, jerry cans, bits of car bodies, pieces of rope, logs, plastic, discarded curtain and old clothing … until she ended up with an igloo made of rubbish.”
Alexis Wright, Carpentaria
