Ancestral Portals

This is a call to learn from traditions, revitalise the present, and summon the futures we need. Through the speculative framework of futurisms, we can turn dreams into tracks to navigate around current obstacles. Travelling through slipstreams of past and future, we search for knowledges to arrive at our legacies. 

Gazing into these Portals, we ask:  

How do we dissolve hierarchies and re-centre matriarchal systems?  

How do we open new pathways across and within generations?  

How do we draw from ancestral wisdoms to not only survive but thrive collectively?  

We hold power within the now to materialise the future we require. We hope that this provocation will inspire all of us to consider our responsibility as future ancestors; to leave Earth a better place for those to come. 

We invite you to our first program of the year, portals to the ancestors, as a part of PHIVE's Western Terrace series.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Wednesday 25 March, 2026

Time: 6-8pm

Location: Western Terrace, PHIVE, 5 Parramatta Square, Parramatta NSW

Cost: Free via Registration

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If you are a young Palestinian person, you are welcome to join our free workshop series, roots – a creative hang out space for Palestinian youth.

Expressions of Interests open now

More programs to be announced soon.

The Ancestral Portals artwork is a collaboration by artists Eddie Abd and Celine Cheung.

Background Artwork – Eddie Abd

Typography Design – Celine Cheung

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS

These projects are supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW and the Neilson Foundation.

This projects have been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Utp is supported by venue partner City of Canterbury Bankstown.