Cultural Programs

2016 – Cultural Blessing 

Aboriginal Traditional Custodian Kevin Duncan led a cleansing ceremony at Mt Penang Gardens, the first in thirteen years, to acknowledge country and to prepare for the inaugural Girrakool Blues Festival & BBQ.

2017 – Dancing Together

A special collaboration with Naisda Students and Yongal Man Gawurra

A special collaboration with Yongal man Stanley “Gawurra” Gaykamangu, a Kamilaroi Soul vocalist and dance students from Naisda,  mixed traditional steps with contemporary elements to create a new choreography.

2018 – Traditional Earth Oven 

An earth oven, also referred to as a Kup Murri, is a common method of cooking in Indigenous and Islander tribes. For the first time at Girrakool, Traditional Earth ovens were exhibited as the original method of slow cooking.