Boomerang Festival is Northern NSW’s first global Indigenous arts and culture festival and its bringing the culture to Byron Bay Bluesfest in a big way this year with a massive lineup of talks, workshops, and presentations.

On the lands of the Arakwal, of the Bundjalung Nation, The Boomerang Precinct will be situated beside the Jambalaya Stage to provide a safe, family-friendly program of arts and age-old culture and rituals.

More names have just been added to the lineup’s diverse Talks & Ideas program, which will see brilliant minds from around the world discuss important topics about culture, the environment, politics, and more.

The workshops, meanwhile, will provide fun and educational experiences for young children and adults alike. Boomerang is sure to be an enlightening and memorable experience for all Bluesfest 2016 punters.

2ND BOOMERANG ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT

Talks & Ideas

GEORGE NEGUS,
AMELIA TELFORD,
LETILA MITCHELL,
THE HON. TONY BURKE & GETANO BANN: Frontline Change – A Climate Change discussion
CLARENCE SLOCKEE & CLAYTON DONOVON: Keeping the natives green – Medicine, Plants & Foraging
JOE WILLIAMS: The Enemy Within
GEORGE NEGUS, JOHN FAUNT & TENZIN CHEOGYAL: The Boat Debate
RICHARD FRANKLAND: Conversations with the Dead
CRAIG PILKINGTON & NANCY BATES: In Conversation with ARCHIE ROACH
TROY BRADY: Music & Chemo
LOCAL ELDERS & COMMUNITY TALKS

Dance
DHINAWAN DREAMING + CULTURAL WORKSHOP, Bundjalung

Workshops

SONJA CARMICHAEL: MAKING TUTRLES & RECYCLING MARINE WASTE
DELVENE COCKATOO COLLINS: SEEDS, CERAMICS & JEWELLERY
WEAVING WITH GRASSES WORKSHOP

joining…

Dance Groups

RAKO DANCERS – Rotuman, Fijian and Pacific Islands
JANNAWI DANCERS – Darug, NSW/Arnhem Land, NT
EXCELSIOR – North & Central Queensland
MALU KIAI MURA BUAI DANCE TROUPE – Boigu Island,
GOING WANHURR AND EAST JOURNEY – Dhalinbuy NT
ARAKWAL DANCERS – Byron Bay, NSW

Talks & Ideas

ARCHIE ROACH – Gundijtmara/ Bundjalung: ‘25 years of Charcoal Lane’
TENZIN CHOEGYAL – Tibet: ‘Music making of the displaced’
GETANO BANN – Torres Strait: ‘Issues affecting island communities’
SHARI SEBBENS (Darwin) & NAKKIAH LUI (Torres Strait): ‘The New Black Voice’

Healing

TE KOPERE HEALING PROGRAM – New Zealand

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