Moonlight Meanders Night Walks
Localjinni
7 + 14 November 2026
Day + Time | Saturday 7 November, 8.30 pm – 10.30pm, meet at Canberra Contemporary | Saturday 14 November, 8.30 pm – 10.00pm. meet at Smith’s Alternative
Location | Lakeside + City West
Entry | General Public Ticket $60 | Bookings Essential
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Part of an international movement of women-led creative tourism, Localjinni creates art experiences that foster local innovation, renewal and connection. Through two projected night walks created by local artists and inspired by urban play, this event invites participants to reclaim public space and reimagine the city around them.
Site responsive works draw on the design and history of Civic, exploring utopian and dystopian visions of urban planning while unsettling the dominant narratives that shape our experience of public space. Rooted in the tradition of the feminist flaneuse, these walks ask whose bodies are welcome in public space, when and why.
In the spirit of Dissent, Localjinni uses the act of walking as a form of creative resistance, countermapping the omissions in our shared urban landscape to reveal new possibilities for connection, play and collective imagination. By moving through the city together, participants are invited to reorient their perspectives, access a sense of playfulness and step into a vision of the city that is more open, inclusive and alive with creative possibility.
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Fiona Hooton founded Localjinni in 2018. For over 35 years she has worked as an artist, arts worker and educator. She has created permanent and ephemeral public art, been a public programmer in state and national cultural institutions, including CMAG, NFSA, NLA and NMA and program manager at the Federal Office of the Arts. She has an MA in Arts Administration and has published works on Australian experimental film.
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Cinnamon van Reyk, Localjinni curator in residence, has a Masters in Museums and Heritage, Honours in Art History and is a heritage specialist and museologist by training. Her long history of working as a curator with social history collections and exhibition includes at the National Library of Australia and the National Museum of Australia. Most recently, Cinnamon has been working as a freelance curator including as a content developer and interpretive text writer for Thylacine Exhibition company limited, focusing on regional collections and local heritage site interpretation. In her day job, she works as an Assistant Director in First Nations heritage on heritage listings. Cinnamon is a Canberra local who comes to Localjinni with a passion to collaborate, support and promote local artists, including craft artists and musicians in her home town.
Images | Localjinni | Moonwalk 2024 | Photos by Jane Duong