The University of Sydney's Cellar Theatre - home to its Dramatic Society - is located on stolen Gadigal Land, belonging to the traditional custodians of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge those who came before us and pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and recognise their ongoing custodianship and care for country.
The land on which our theatre stands has been a place of learning, knowledge exchange, and wellbeing for First Nations people for thousands of years.
The Sydney University Dramatic Society, a society all about stories and how we choose to tell them - and the oldest continual theatre company in colonial Australia - recognise that we are just one small part in this country's long history of storytelling.
Oral tradition, Dreaming, and storytelling began with First Nations peoples thousands of years before British invasion and dispossession.
It is our duty, that with the resources and talents we have, we support and centre the continuation of this tradition in our work, and actively do what we can to tell the stories that need telling as part of reconciliation and recognition.
SUDS supports the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart in its entirety, and calls for the implementation of all three of its recommendations: Voice, Treaty, Truth.
With this, the Society supports an amendment to Australian Constitution to create a permanent Indigenous Voice to Parliament - an advisory body concerned with First Nations matters, whose members are decided by First Nations communities, and operates with their interests at heart.
Sydney University Dramatic Society
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