Now More Than Ever

2024 National Reconciliation Week Event 

To conclude National Reconciliation Week, we welcome all communities to come together to explore First Nations shared histories, cultures, and accomplishments. Presented by the Indigenous Development Team at Yarra Ranges Council.

The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2024, Now More Than Ever, serves as a reminder that the ongoing struggle for justice and the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is imperative and ongoing. 

Now, more than ever, it is crucial to address the unresolved issues surrounding reconciliation. The 6.2 million Australians who voted YES have demonstrated their commitment to achieving better outcomes for First Nations people. 

Now, more than ever, the efforts must persist. This includes engaging in treaty negotiations, truth-telling, understanding our collective history, promoting education, and combatting racism. We must prioritize connection, respect, action, and change. 

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Image: Suzanne Phoenix 2024, Event MC's Nelson Aldridge, Indigenous Participation Plan Project Officer, Yarra Ranges Council; Nikki Madgwick, Culture & Events Manager, Oonah Health & Community Services Aboriginal Corporation; and Samantha Piper, Indigenous Development Coordinator, Yarra Ranges Council.

 

Program Line Up

A range of talented and renowned performers, presenters and groups will come together to deliver an engaging event that inspires, educates and celebrates, through dance, performance and conversation.

Na Djinang and Bumpy have been announced with more to be announced over the coming weeks.

Na Djinang

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Na Djinang

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Bumpy

Bumpy

Na Djinang

An invigorating and moving performance that celebrates what it means to be First People—the lifeblood of this country. 
 
Na Djinang Circus is a Melbourne based contemporary circus company working with diverse young artists to share unique insight with the next generation's Hands & Feet. 

Na Djinang Circus aims to develop work that utilises the next generation's social and political attitudes and tell stories that challenge our own perceived ideas about contemporary Australian society. Our work explores fundamental human characteristics from an indigenous perspective, using the body to demonstrate complex human experiences of trust, connection, vulnerability, and joy. 

Na Djinang Circus is known for being a First Nations led company and our art and ethos reflect traditional and contemporary values. We are curious, original and free to make mistakes.

Click here to visit Na Djinang's website

Bumpy

With a voice equal parts tender and towering, Award-winning Naarm based artist Bumpy is one of the country’s most thrilling, transportive artists. Going by her childhood nickname – earned for a habit of bumping into all kinds of obstacles – she pulls from the strength found in tenderness, scars and all.

She has wowed crowds at Meredith Music Festival, BIGSOUND, WOMADelaide, Woodford Folk Festival, VIVID Festival, Queenscliff Music Festival, NGV & Dreamtime at the MCG and more with her deeply affecting music. A shimmering collection of R&B and neo-soul, it delicately unravels to reveal a singer of extraordinary ability: emotional, captivating, cheeky, a hypnotic talent. In recent, Bumpy has appeared as a feature in the Rolling Stone, Front cover of the Coles Magazine, NME, NITV series, and broadcast her new show ‘Pebbles’ at Triple R 102.7FM.

Bumpy received the New Talent of the Year award at the 2023 National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAS) and took away Best Soul/Rnb/Funk and Gospel work at the Music Victoria Awards. She is currently selected as the First Nations Artist in Residence in partnership with the Australian Art Orchestra and Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

Click here to listen to Bumpy

       

 

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