The Mirring Aboriginal Corporation is an Aboriginal Women’s Darkinjung Group set up to support Aboriginal women residing on Darkinjung Country and supporting Aboriginal Women and Non-Aboriginal Women with Aboriginal Children. Learn the craft of traditional basket weaving using natural dyed grasses, make paper bark bowls or traditional string with cultural facilitators from the Mirring Aboriginal Woman’s Corporation, between 12-3pm Sunday 5 March.
Roundabout Circus is the Central Coast’s Community Circus. They are the leading Circus Arts Cultural Charity in the region with a mission to use circus to empower individuals in our community. Roundabout Circus focuses on promoting the culture and benefits of social circus arts. As a Social Enterprise they reinvest any surplus into projects such as offering discounted classes and programs for disadvantaged groups in the community such as people with disabilities and at risk youth. Roundabout’s Circus Play space allows people of all ages to join the circus without having to run away. With over 15 different activities on offer, including the aerial rig, they cater to all ages and abilities.
The beautiful Central Coast is rich in heritage and it is central to an area that has been used for ceremony for thousands of years. Aboriginal ceremony is used to acknowledge country and connect with mother earth. A Smoking ceremony is a way of cleansing the area, remembering the past, and as a way for all who use, live and visit the lands to benefit from into the future. Celebrate our first nations peoples with Aboriginal Traditional Custodian Kevin Duncan, as he leads a moving and spiritual Welcome to Country with his soul stirring didgeridoo, cultural songs, and dance on country. Join in by immersing in smoke, during the smoking ceremony. Girrakool Blues recognises the indigenous people of this land by naming the event after the Girrakool waterfalls at Somersby, which is Aboriginal for “Place of still water”.
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Girrakool Blues acknowledges the Darkinjung and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which our event is held. We pay respect to their Elders’ past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples as knowledge holders with continuing connections to land, place, waters and community.
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The official Girrakool schedule and guide, is now available via our very own festival mobile app. Easily view the full line-up, schedules, get playing time reminders, or get notified of any event changes.
