Winter Solstice Gathering and Ancestral Celebration

Ancestral gathering for the Winter Solstice

Introducing our Solstice Leaders:

Opening Welcome to Country Aunty Dinnawhan

Saturday Session Jandamarra Cadd

Music Friday Evening by Daddy Frank

Didjeridu playing Marco Debie

Ian Hamilton, Anne Harris, Trudy Juriansz & Carol Liknaitzky

Leonie & Nova Star Productions

This Gathering is all about connecting community, giving back to the country, connecting in with our ancestoral linage and learning from each other as we listen to story, hear song, dance together and share meals.

There will be Mens, Womens and an Elders Circles and a Childrens Program.

Various workshops over the weekend will provide opportunities to share and be heard. Included is Welcome to Country,  fire, song, dance, art, great food and vibrant wonderful people working to restore the land and remember our ancestoral roots to connection through community.

Tickets are available weekend pass at $160 per person and include evening meals, all workshops and camping. We also have volunteer rates if you would like to particpate and help out along the way. And day pass for Saturday $80  Kids free.

Location: KUMBARTCHO farm (near Kilkivan). Shane Joyce has created an incredible model of what is regenerative agriculture, using Bio-Dynamic and syntroic agroforestry in line with Natural Sequence Farming.

Jandamarra is a proud Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung man, a celebrated Indigenous artist and art educator based on the Sunshine Coast, whose powerful portraiture and storytelling span over 25 years of creative expression and cultural advocacy. He will be facilitating a painting workshop in which participants are invited to create an artwork that is centred around identity and connection.. Understanding on a greater level our true belonging in relationship to ourselves and the world around us.. 🍃’

Dinnawhan

Ngara wunya ngullum to Kabi dhag'un.

Acknowledging all Kabi ancestors elders, past present and emerging, as well as all nations songlines. 

Acknowledging all those passed into the Dreaming,

Creator and all of our 

elements, flora, n fauna.

I am a Wakka, Kabi original bloodline descendant from my mother's father.

I am a Gamilaraay original bloodline descendant from my mother's mother.

I am a english, Viking original bloodline from my father.

I am known as Dinnawhan, meaning Emu in my grandmother s Gamilaraay language.

We country n myself have facilitated many walks through n on Kabi dhag'un, supporting significant non government gatherings, cultural land clearings, lore circles, cultural women's camps, travelled through Europe, Aotearoa, South Africa and Terra Australis, for ceremony business. Spirit uses me to facilitate restorative healings in country as well as individually.

Our divine purpose along with country, is always to support each of us individually n collectively to heighten our conscious awareness, expanding consciousness, to Remember how to live together as one with the spirit of mother earth, her children, in love, peace, harmony, balance n joy   and all that is.

Ian is an educator, facilitator, mentor and outdoor and wilderness instructor. He also sees himself as a cultural creative and loves to build community and connect people to nature. He has been teaching for more than 30 years and is passionate about assisting others to find connection to nature, their ancestral roots and their spiritual selves. He is the founder and director of Kookaburra Kulture Wilderness School which began in 2013. Ian lives beside the beautiful Lake Weyba on the Sunshine Coast with his wife Kristin and his three amazing children, Dakota, Maya and Sage as well as Oaki- the dog.

Anne is a mother of two teens, an artist, an intuitive life coach and community facilitator, who blends practical wisdom with deep spiritual insight. She shares teachings from the School of Shamanic Womancraft alongside her own plant spirit connection, cultivated during a lifetime of listening to country, people, and plants. Through circle, ritual, and presence, Anne invites you to honour the winter solstice as a sacred threshold of renewal, re-membering, and embodying the earth wisdom.

Carol is mother to five, grandmother of eight who loves playing in the arts and crafting with families, educators and facilitating Heart Spaces so the new village of loving authentic humans can thrive. She has extensive experience in the early childhood sector, in human and child rights and has worked in diverse settings including universities and remote communities in Africa and Australia.   

She sees this Winter solstice as a profound opportunity for us to be together and collaborate in this “astrological moment unlike any in recorded history—Saturn and Neptune at 0° Aries—signalling a cosmic rebirth for humanity. We’re entering a co-creative metamorphosis where outdated systems not rooted in love are collapsing, making way for a heart-led, multidimensional consciousness”. Pam Gregory “The future isn’t happening to us—it’s happening through us”.

Marco is a virtuoso didgeridoo player and multi-instrumentalist born in the Netherlands. It was the didjeridu and his connection with his first Indigenous mentors that pulled him away from a dark and self-destructive life. He now shares from a 27 year deep healing journey, learning from his Indigenous & Tibetan Yogic teachers and not least from life itself. 

Leonie from Nova Star Productions has been performing professionally since 1990 as a dancer, stilt walker, actor, choreographer, fire artist and model. She has performed Australia wide in a huge variety of corporate functions, events, parades and festivals.

Leonie started her own business nova Star Productions in 2000. As Entertainment Director she has managed many talented performing artists for major events in melbourne such as trapeze acts, magicians, air brush artists, jugglers, acrobats, stilt walkers, dancers, and fire artists.