Calling Country Ceremony

Name: Calling Country Ceremony
Start: 2024-10-03T18:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-03T19:00:00+10:00
Location: Esplanade Cairns Event Lawn

Schedule

Thu Oct 03 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

Esplanade Cairns Event Lawn | Cairns, QL

📣 Heralding the beginning of Shine On Gimuy Festival (3-13 October) is the Calling Country Ceremony–a coming together of First Nations clan groups of the Gimuy/Cairns area and surrounding region, hosted by the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji peoples. The Ceremony is a celebration of dance, song, story, kinship, and cultures!
2023's Calling Country Ceremony—our opening event—attracted hundreds of spectators and included 90 dancers, each performing traditional dances which speak to their shared and respective songlines and stories. The Ceremony hadn't been performed for close to a century until last year.
“Our performance is a call and response ritual, featuring dance and song cycles that uniquely honour totemic, ancestral, country, and cultural expressions. It’s about new visibility for the age-old traditions and ceremonies, relevant of Tropical North Queensland and rainforest Bama”,
- Rhoda Roberts AO, Artistic Director.
The Calling Country Ceremony is free to attend, so join us this year on Thursday 3 October, 2024 from ⏰️ 5:30pm (best time to arrive)📍on the Gimuy/Cairns Esplanade, Eastern Event Lawn, for a 6:00pm showtime.
📧 For media or accessibility inquiries, email us at [email protected]
🎟 To secure your Full Event Pass tickets and go in the running for a special give-away prize package (to be announced soon), visit 👉🏿 Tinyurl.com/2m49ns22
✨️ For more information on #ShineOnGimuy2024 program and events, visit 👉🏿 Shineonproductions.au/gimuy
📷 Mitch Lowe, 2023
🫱🏿‍🫲🏻 Shine On Gimuy Festival is proudly supported by the Queensland Government, Cairns Regional Council, Commonwealth Government, and many more valued partners!
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