Inspector Keith Price and Matilda House perform the smoking ceremony.
UNESCO-designated World Art Day – that’s today, April 15 – purposely coincides with Leonardo Da Vinci’s birthday, so the arts officers at Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council decided to make an even bigger day of it.
The new Rusten House Arts Centre in Collett Street was previewed before a select group of arts insiders, gardeners, builders and local identities.
On hand was Queanbeyan sculptor and activist matriarch, Connee Colleen, still able to heckle the speechmakers, and Ngambri elder and artist, Matilda House, who said, “thanks to Connee… your footprint is here, you have walked here with me”.