Cultural Events
Girrakool Blues Festival 2025
07-08 MARCH 2025
A celebration of music on the Central Coast. A weekend of music, food an culture.
Memorial Park, The Entrance NSW
Darkinjung Country
Mirring Attending
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Pali Kulpari Naru - Cultural Camp
20-22 SEPTEMBER 2024
Woman's Cultural Camp - Knowledge Sharing with Aunty Di McNabe
A Murrang-Ta Aboriginal Corporation gathering of Aboriginal women for knowledge exchange with Aunty Di McNabe on Wonnarua Country. Aunty Di will be sharing natural dying techniques, weaving techniques, making head dresses and arm bands for dancing.
Registration Required - Limited to 15 Spots
Minimbah NSW
Wonnarua Country
Mirring Attending
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Pali Kulpari Naru - Mental Health Workshop
06-08 SEPTEMBER 2024
Mental Health Workshop - Seven Sista’s Program
Facilitated by Geraldine Moran of Brae Enterprises t/a Oz Spectrum Success Coaching, developed by Ros Snyder. Ros is a psychologist in Western Australia who specialise in trauma healing, spending time with Aboriginal community teaching and sharing the program. The program combines her experience a psychologist with Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being to heal trauma and providing participants with the tools to prevent trauma related behaviors.
A Murrang-Ta Aboriginal Corporation gathering of Aboriginal women for mental health and wellbeing on Wonnarua Country.
Registration Required - Limited to 15 Spots
Minimbah NSW
Wonnarua Country
Mirring Attending
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Pali Kulpari Naru Cultural Wellbeing Camp
23-25 AUGUST 2024
A Murrang-Ta Aboriginal Corporation gathering of Aboriginal women for cultural connection on Wonnarua Country. Visit cultural sites, bush medicine identification and ceremony.
Registration Required - Limited Spots
Minimbah NSW
Wonnarua Country
Mirring Attending
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Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures
2-5 AUGUST 2024
The Garma Festival is Australia’s largest Indigenous gathering, a 4-day celebration of Yolngu life and culture held in remote northeast Arnhem Land. Hosted by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, Garma showcases traditional miny’tji (art), manikay (song), bunggul (dance) and story-telling, and is an important meeting point for the clans and families of the region.
Nhulunbuy, Gove Peninsula, NT
Yolngu Country
Mirring Attending / Volunteering
Saltwater Freshwater Festival
20 JULY 2024
The Saltwater Freshwater Festival is a free event celebrating the Goori culture from the Mid North Coast of NSW. Packed with music, dance, cultural workshops, yarn tent, Aboriginal arts and crafts stalls, food, and connection to culture and community.
Kempsey Race Club, Kempsey NSW
Dunghutti Country
Mirring Attending / Stallholder
Durrungan Gathering 2024
30 JUNE 2024
9:00-15:00 | Durrungan Gathering - Cultural festival, live music, cultural performances, wildlife and environmental workshops and stalls, ORRCA Whale Census Day location, cultural workshops, lighthouse tours, mech tent, food and coffee vendors.
Gold coin donation on entry
Norah Head Lighthouse, Norah Head NSW
Darkinjung Country
Mirring Hosting
2024 ORRCA Whale Census Day
30 JUNE 2024
5:30-18:00 | Join the 2024 ORRCA Whale Census Day! Grab your binoculars and head to your nearest headland to participate in ORRCA's Annual Whale Census Day! Simply join us at Norah Heads Lighthouse or pick a favourite headland and REGISTER for this event to log your location. You’ll be emailed our Census Day kit one week prior to the event, which contains a sighting fact sheet and how to access our Data Collection App to log your sightings on the day.
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Norah Head Lighthouse, Norah Head NSW
Darkinjung Country
Mirring Co-Hosting and Attending
5 Lands Walk
22 JUNE 2024
Connecting people to people and people to place. A cultural, physical and spiritual event that connects 5 coastal villages.
Central Coast NSW
Darkinjung Country (5 Lands): MacMasters Beach, Copacabana Beach, Avoca Beach, North Avoca & Terrigal Beach
Mirring Co-Hosting and Attending
Book Launch
15 JUNE 2024
Event Times: 11:00am-1:00pm
Private Book Launch on Gumbaynggirr Country with Professor Norm Sheehan, Uncle Rod Williams, Aunty Bea Ballangarry.
Mid-North Coast NSW
Gumbaynggirr Country
Mirring Attending
Firesticks: Ngangkirna Kardlatidli - Women With Fire
MAY 2024
Next month, over 100 Indigenous women will gather on Kaurna Country in a first-of-its-kind National Indigenous Women's Fire Workshop. Hosted by our Kaurna Fire Team and Kaurna Elders, Ngangkirna Kardlatidli: Women With Fire emphasises the key role of Indigenous women in land management.
Kaurna Country
Mirring Attending
Parrtjima- A Festival in Light
12-21 APRIL 2024
Parrtjima – A Festival in Light 2024 is an extraordinary free 10 night festival with an incredible program featuring light installations, music and talks held under the starry desert skies of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in the Red Centre. Watch the desert come alive with a celebration and exploration of art and culture on Arrernte Country. Parrtjima 2024 will infuse innovative technologies with traditional story-telling methods, offering visitors a unique perspective.
Free Event (register to attend / registration open now)
Alice Springs (Mparntwe), NT
Arrernte Country
Mirring Attending
Wonnarua Women’s Cultural Gathering
8-10 MARCH 2024
A Murrang-Ta Aboriginal Corporation gathering of Aboriginal women for cultural connection on Wonnarua Country. Visit cultural sites, bush medicine identification and ceremony.
Minimbah NSW
Wonnarua Country
Mirring Attending
Exhibition: Leanne Tobin: Memories of Water (Badu)
9 DEC 2023 - 28 APR 2024
‘Memories of Water (Badu)’ reveals glimpses of life from pre and post colonisation in the Liverpool/Casula region where the Georges River flows. The exhibition provides a unique insight into the often-overlooked Cabragal Dharug connection to badu (water) and Ngurra (country).
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
Casula, NSW, 2170
Cabrogal Dharug County
Mirring Attending