9th September

DARRUYAYGAM MAAGUN CULTURE & WELLNESS FESTIVAL

Name: DARRUYAYGAM MAAGUN CULTURE & WELLNESS FESTIVAL
Start: 2022-09-09T10:00:00+1000
End: 2022-09-09T16:00:00+1000
Location: Bellwood Park

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DARRUYAYGAM MAAGUN CULTURE & WELLNESS FESTIVAL

LIVE MUSIC | STALLS | DANCERS | FOOD | ACTIVITIES

We are excited to announce the inaugural Darruyaygam Maagun Festival - The feast of wellness!

A FREE community event held riverside, celebrating wellness and cultural pride while showcasing talented musicians and artists. There will be an abundance of activities for the whole family, including workshops, fishing, and stand-up paddle boarding on the river to name a few.

This event aims to bring families together to embrace our traditions, promoting healing and wellness and eventually grow into a positive annual event on the local calendar. We want to create healing our way, from a cultural perspective, creating unity in community and stable social and emotional wellness through traditional healing practices and what comes naturally to our people.

So yilaami! Connect with Country and community—and have some fun!

THIS IS A FREE EVENT, HOWEVER, REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL FOR CATERING & CAPACITY PURPOSES.
BOOK YOUR TICKETS TO THE DARRUYAYGAM MAAGUN CULTURE & WELLNESS FESTIVAL!

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🎵🎼 | Festival Line-up |🎵🎼

EMMA DONOVAN & THE PUTBACKS
TAREIK HART
MANDUWAY & GUEST
GABBY STADHAMS & LAURA GRAHAM

With MC Lockie Skinner of ONEMOB RADIO

Register for the event and go in the draw to win 2 tickets to the Award-winning Giingan Gumbaynggirr Cultural Experience held monthly at Sealy lookout. Terms & Conditions

Important information:

All ages welcome, children under 18 must be supervised by a parent or guardian.
This is a smoke/alcohol/drug free event.
If you feel unwell or have any COVID19 symptoms, please stay at home to protect the health and wellbeing of our community.

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Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan Aboriginal Corporation

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“Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan” translates to “Two Path Strong” in the Gumbaynggirr language and thereby sets the goal of our corporation, which is to ensure that our Aboriginal community, and in particular our youth are “two path strong” – strong in culture and strong in education. BMNAC is a not-for-profit Charity with Public Benelevont Institution (PBI) and Deductible Gift Recipiency (DGR) status. BMNAC was established in 2010 by our Executive Officer Clark Webb, when two after-school Goori Learning Centres (GLC’s) were set up at Wongala Estate Aboriginal Reserve (Coffs Harbour) and Woolgoolga High School. The third learning centre was established in 2012 at William Bayldon Primary School in Sawtell. Initially, all three GLC’s were co-ordinated and attended in a voluntary capacity until late 2013 when funding was received from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s PaCE initiative to run programs that encourage parents to engage with and participate in the education of their children. The programs that we deliver are designed to ensure that Aboriginal youth are strong in terms of both cultural identity and educational success. It is our goal that our children complete and achieve at school at the same rate as all Australian children in order to compete for real jobs whilst also being knowledgeable and proud of whom they are as Aboriginal people. Since our beginning, we have continually expanded the scope of our programs in order to meet the aspirations of our community and now deliver: Goori Learning Centres (Offering tutoring, homework support, Gumbaynggirr language lessons, and other varying activities to keep the students engaged and continue attendance). Gumbaynggirr Language Revitalisation Programs (Including weekly community classes, school packages, recording speakers- in particular our last surviving first language speaker Uncle Cecil “Bing” Laurie, and teacher training. Cultural Camps (Once per year, giving GLC students and their families an opportunity to come together and engage in our program and culture by attending cultural tours, participating in cultural activities and interacting with our Elders. Cultural Engagement Training (For schools and organisations) And lastly, to help us share our culture, offer job opportunities and pursue our goal of become a fully self-sustainable organisation we have developed our Cultural Tourism Experiences in partnership with Forestry Corporation NSW. The “Giingan Gumbaynggirr Cultural Experience” was set up to create a long-term sustainable financial income stream for the BMNAC programs. All profits from the Giingan Experience are directly reinvested into our programs.

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