Ngulu Festive Market
Event description
Please join us for this very special event to acknowledge and celebrate our First Nations people.
Ngulu Festive Market 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 & Ganga Giri.
Feast on locally made Indigenous 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 Tews 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 Festive Market to be held at ECOSS on Friday June 17th.
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.
Ngulu Festive Market is part of On the Road Again, a Victorian Government initiative to bring live music back across the state.”