The centrepiece of Sydney Festival’s Indigenous component is a temporary meeting place – a “soft space” – for everyone to gather.
Under the shadow of Crown Sydney and close to the engineering marvel that is the new Metro station, a far more modest structure appeared in Barangaroo this week.
“It was so beautiful to have First Nations people and non-First Nations people sitting down together to do something that’s smaller and with so much meaning,” Nash says. “For me, the idea that we can communicate, connect and do something that’s a little slower for a couple of hours was really beautiful.
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