🌟 UNVEILED – GALA DINNER EXPERIENCE

✨ A night of storytelling, exhibition, and connection

UNVEILED is a curated gala dinner experience presented by Underneath My Umbrella, bringing together storytelling, lived experience, exhibition, and community reflection in an evening of meaning, connection, and shared humanity.

Held on Saturday 17 October at 6:30pm at Bunjil Place Convention Gallery, this event invites guests into a space grounded in education, empowerment, and encouragement.

🎭 THE EXPERIENCE

Across the evening, guests will experience a carefully curated program including:

• The unveiling of the 2026 Women & Culture Digital Story Project

• The final presentation of the Silenced Witness Exhibition

• Guest speaker reflections and lived experience storytelling

• Community impact announcements and future project unveilings

• A two-course gala dinner in a formal setting

• Door prize draw and silent auction items

• Opportunities for reflection, dialogue, and connection

Drinks will be available for purchase at the bar.

🌿 ABOUT SILENCED WITNESS

Silenced Witness: Stories of Family Violence Through a Child’s Heart

Silenced Witness shares lived experience perspectives of family violence through a child’s lens — highlighting how children are often silent witnesses to what occurs within the home, carrying experiences that are deeply felt even when not spoken.

This exhibition brings forward these perspectives with care and respect, honouring the emotional reality of lived experience while creating space for reflection, awareness, and understanding.

🌿 ABOUT WOMEN & CULTURE DIGITAL STORY PROJECT

The Women & Culture Digital Story Project is a multimedia storytelling series exploring how culture — as defined by each individual woman — has shaped identity, lived experience, and pathways of recovery.

Rather than defining culture as fixed, this project recognises it as lived, personal, and evolving. Each story reflects how cultural connection, disconnection, tradition, identity, and lived experience intersect in journeys of healing and growth.

Through digital storytelling, participants share reflections that highlight resilience, empowerment, and the diverse ways meaning is created and reclaimed through lived experience.

🤝 TOGETHER IN DIALOGUE

Presented side by side, these two works create a layered narrative of lived experience:

• Silenced Witness reflects childhood perspective and the unseen impacts of family violence

• Women & Culture explores identity, culture, and recovery through adult reflection

Together, they offer a continuum of understanding — from lived experience to meaning-making, recovery, and voice.

💛 PURPOSE OF THE NIGHT

This evening sits at the intersection of education, empowerment, and encouragement.

Education — for those seeking greater understanding of lived experience and recovery journeys.
Empowerment — for those navigating healing, identity, and transition.
Encouragement — for those impacted directly or indirectly, including those supporting others through lived experience contexts.

UNVEILED is open to all genders and all members of the community, recognising that these experiences, stories, and systems impact everyone — and that meaningful change is created through shared understanding.

🎁 Prize Draw GIVEAWAY

Every ticket purchased goes into the major prize draw.
Early Bird tickets also go into a special bonus draw.

Door prizes will be during the evening.

🎟 TICKETS & ACCESS

Tickets are available via Humanitix:

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Options include:

• Early Bird Tickets (limited release) with bonus entry into our prize draw

• General Admission

• Table / Group Bookings

• Corporate Tables

• Save the Date (Free Expression of Interest option for those not yet ready to purchase)

📍 EVENT DETAILS

📍 Bunjil Place Convention Gallery, Narre Warren
📅 Saturday 17 October
🕡 6:30pm start