9 November 2024 - Jigamy, EDEN NSW
THAUA COUNTRY - YUIN NATION
Dhiliwaan Yarrkura (Nightfall Dance) image by David Rogers. Featured dancers: Duurunu Miru Dancers, Djaadjawan Dancers, Gumaraa, Gadhu Dancers
Giiyong News
South Coast’s 2023 Giiyong Festival is being hailed as a massive success, showing the strength and depth of Aboriginal culture in Southern NSW.
New release from J-MILLA - see him at Giiyong Festival 18/11/23 - All ages gig. U18s free.
From Soul to Rap, from Country to Rock - some of Australia’s finest musicians are coming to Giiyong Festival 2023 + two of the funniest humans alive and our region’s best dancers.
Giiyong Festival receives important funding from Create NSW that will see the Yuin Nation’s biggest Aboriginal cultural festival secured for three more years through to 2025.
MEDIA ENQUIRIES?
Contact giiyong@southeastarts.org.au
J-MILLA at Giiyong Festival 2023 - image by David Rogers
A CELEBRATION OF ABORIGINAL CULTURE ON THE FAR SOUTH COAST OF NSW - FOR EVERYONE
Partners Twofold Aboriginal Corporation, Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council and South East Arts are pleased to again present Giiyong Festival at Jigamy, just north of Eden NSW on
Saturday 9 November 2024
Giiyong Festival provides a rare opportunity in South east NSW for the entire community to come together in celebration of Aboriginal arts, culture and resilience.
Giiyong means ‘come to welcome’ in the south coast language as spoken by local Elders. Everyone is welcome at Giiyong Festival, which brings you the best Aboriginal performers, presenters and speakers in one big day. LIVE MUSIC, THINKERS & SPEAKERS, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS, TRADITIONAL CULTURAL PRACTICES, ART, CRAFT, FOOD AND MORE.
WHO YOU MISSED IN 2023
WHERE IS JIGAMY?
Giiyong Festival is held on a property named Jigamy, between Pambula and Eden, NSW.
The property is privately owned by Twofold Aboriginal Corporation.
The address for your map app is:
4381 Princes Highway
Broadwater NSW