Danny Pettingill

ented by Melbourne Festival in association with Sydney Festival

Political agitator Gary Foley presents a swag of stories from a life lived in the spirit of resistance. From the frontlines of black activism to the halls of mainstream culture, he presents a colourful personal history and a dissident narrative of an Australian half-century.

See what Festival director Brett Sheehy has to say about Foley.

For more than forty years, Gary Foley has been deeply involved in the continuing struggle against foreign invasion. As activist, academic and actor, he’s been one of the key figures in ensuring that the Aboriginal experience is not written out of this land’s history.

Having spent decades spinning the yarns of black Australia, both past and present, he now uses his well-honed skills as troublemaker, teacher and teller of tales to bring his experiences to the stage in an explosive event that weaves his extraordinary life around the major happenings that have shaped modern Australia.

Entertaining and challenging, Foley is as much personal narrative as it is an account of an untold Australian history. From land rights to native title, from treaty to reconciliation, from the referendum to the embassy, from black power to black pride, Foley, with characteristic black humour, chronicles his life and times in what promises to be an engrossing tale of resistance and tenacity.

^{Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patrons are advised that this event will contain images of people who are now deceased}

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“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” GARY FOLEY

“If his ego is epic, as his opponents allege, so is his story.” THE AGE