Special Event: Festival Welcome Wunya 2025

Date: Friday 3 October 2025

Venue: Piccabeen Green, Little Main Street, Palmwoods, Hinterland, Sunshine Coast.

About: Join us for a Welcome to Country led by traditional custodian and elder Lyndon Davis, featuring Gubbi Gubbi Dance. This traditional ceremony, Wunya (meaning “welcome”), honours the First Nations people of the Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) peoples and their enduring cultural connection to Country.

This special event opens our Long Listen Festival with respect, celebration, and community spirit. Please register your attendance.

Event Schedule:

7:00 PM Festival Welcome with Uncle Lyndon Davis & Gubbi Gubbi Dance at Piccabeen Green (across the road, outside the hall)
7:30 PM Opening Festival Concert: Migrating Bird at Palmwoods Memorial Hall
- Featuring Véronique Serret (rock experimental violin & voice) with band, fresh from Brisbane Festival
- Special guest: William Barton (didgeridoo & guitar)
- Support act: Layla Havana, emerging Sunshine Coast First Nations singer-songwriter
- Concert tickets purchased separately

This project is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Queensland Arts Showcase Program, and the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Sunshine Coast Council supporting local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

This project is supported by the generosity of individual donors who supported our BOOST donor campaign matched by the Australian Government through the Australian Cultural Fund. Our fundraising partners are Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation and the Australian Cultural Fund.