BAYSIDE residents are invited to attend Council’s official Reconciliation Flag Raising Ceremony to be held on Saturday 30 May at 2pm, and to participate in Reconciliation Week from 27 May to 3 June.

Bayside Mayor Councillor James Long said the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island flags would be raised outside Council’s Corporate Centre to mark the important national week of recognition.

“The annual ceremony continues our commitment to reconciliation by formally recognising the role of the Boonerwrung people of the Kulin Nation as traditional owners of this land.”

“I encourage Bayside residents to participate in the Reconciliation Week celebrations, which allow us to recognise and to reflect on our past, present and future with Australia's Indigenous people,” Cr Long said.

Council’s Indigenous perspectives exhibition by one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, Gordon Bennett, will be launched on the same day as the ceremony in Council’s ARTrium space at the Corporate Centre.

Bennett’s work looks at Australia’s colonial past, exploring questions of cultural and personal identity and recently toured galleries throughout Australia.

The Indigenous art exhibition will continue until Friday 5 June. The ARTrium exhibition is open from Monday to Friday between 8.30am and 5pm at Council’s Corporate Centre, 76 Royal Avenue, Sandringham.

For more information on the Reconciliation Week ceremony and the ARTrium exhibition, please call Council on 9599 4444.