

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Birrpai:  Dancing Beyond The Lens of Thomas Dick
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 26 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 am – Mon, 26 Jan, 2026 at 08:30 am
- **Event Description**: Imagine seeing photos of your ancestors in museums, taken by people documenting an ‘exotic’ sighting.

From whose lens do we view memory, history, and culture?

Birrpai is a talk, performance, and exhibition refocusing the lens on the UNESCO-listed Thomas Dick Birrpai Photograph Collection. This collection of historical photos was taken from 1910 by non-Indigenous Port Macquarie oyster farmer Thomas Dick and to portray pre-contact Birrpai life and people.

Birrpai is a thought-provoking celebration and remembrance of family by the descendants of the photos: Birrpai Traditional Owner, historian and father John Heath; and his daughter, dancer and choreographer Ngioka Bunda-Heath.

$25 Full Price | $20 Concession | $15 Mob

5pm Sat 24 Jan
5pm Sun 25 Jan
5pm Mon 26 Jan
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/coffs-harbour/birrpai-dancing-beyond-the-lens-of-thomas-dick/200029565190649
- **Event Categories**: exhibitions
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://events.humanitix.com/birrpai-ngioka-bunda-heath/tickets?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=coffs+harbour-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Coffs Harbour
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: The Gallery
- **lat**: -30.29786
- **long**: 153.11361
- **full address**: The Gallery, 6 Park Ave,Coffs Harbour,NSW,Australia

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Saltwater Freshwater Festival (https://allevents.in/org/saltwater-freshwater-festival/27289341)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 26 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** The Gallery, 6 Park Ave,Coffs Harbour,NSW,Australia
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Saltwater Freshwater Festival
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** exhibitions
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Birrpai:  Dancing Beyond The Lens of Thomas Dick ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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