Ngulu Festival 2021

Please join us for this very special event to acknowledge and celebrate our First Nations people.

Ngulu Festival is the Official Opening of The Creation Story Mural and Soundscape at Yarra Valley ECOSS. We are proud to host one of the first Wurundjeri Mural’s and Soundscapes of it’s kind in Yarra Ranges Council on  Wurundjeri Country.

We hope you can come along to this special event and enjoy a Welcome to Country with Wurundjeri Elder, Smoking Ceremony with Aunty Kim Wandin, A Call to Country with Chenile Chandler and enjoy powerful performances from First Nation Artists-Pirritu, Nikki Madgwick, Kee'ahn and DRMNGNOW featuring Neil Morris. 

Feast on locally made cuisines.

Yarra Valley ECOSS has been working alongside Aunty Kim Wandin, Woiwurrung Elder of the Wurundjeri People and Nikki Browne, Indigenous Artist and proud Bidjara woman of Queensland Central Highlands, to create this Mural. We have also collaborated with RMIT Industrial Design students and Ryan Tees to record the story to turn the Mural into a Soundscape for a full immersion of this Wurundjeri Dreamtime Story, this will be a permanent installation where visitors to ECOSS can interact with, to gain an understanding and preserve the Wurundjeri culture. 

We are very grateful for the opportunity to celebrate this amazing project with you in the form of the Ngulu Festival to be held at ECOSS on May 29th- as part of Reconciliation Week.

Thank you to Yarra Ranges Council Arts & Heritage grant for funding this project, Aunty Kim Wandin, Nikki Browne and RMIT Industrial Design students. We would also like to thank Upper Yarra Community Enterprise and Yarra Ranges Council for Sponsoring the Community PA and sound engineer that will be used at this event.

Please note: New restrictions in place as of 6pm 25th May - 4th June 2021 due to a new Covid 19 outbreak in Victoria. 
At the moment there are no new restrictions to Cultural gatherings and as this is an outdoor event we are going ahead as planned. 
Please follow government directive if you have attended any of the listed exposure sites in the link below:
https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/exposure-sites
If you have visited a 

• Tier 1 exposure site you will need to- Get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days and will therefore be unable to attend Ngulu Festival. 
  
• Tier 2 - Get tested urgently and isolate until you have a negative result.
• Tier 3 exposure sites- Anyone who has visited a Tier 3 exposure site during times listed should monitor for symptoms - If symptoms develop, immediately get tested and isolate until you receive a negative result.

Whilst at Yarra Valley ECOSS we require all participants to check in using QR codes. Maintain COVIDSafe behaviours to keep our community safe, wear a mask if indoors and unable to socially distance and most importantly, if you are unwell, get tested as soon as possible and stay isolated until you receive a negative result.