InterNational Indigenous People’s Village
This year the village area of the festival will continue to provide an environment which offers a beautiful contrast to the busy vibrancy and activity of the festival. Renamed the ‘InterNational Indigenous People’s Village’ (IIPV), it will be host to indigenous people from a number of different nations and provide a background and forum for meaningful dialogue between the wisdom of ancient cultures and modernity.
If you are an early riser, you can start your day with some yoga which will be followed by a range of activities enabling you to focus on the inner rather than the outer and to step outside of the excitement of the main event.
View the 2011 IIPV Program
InterNational Indigenous Artists:
From the remote, northern tropical islands of Vanuatu, a nation which includes 83 such places in its group, comes a unique and rarely seen tradition of Women’s Water Music. Espiritu Santo is the place where this tradition continues to live and thrive. Dressed in traditional costumes of flowers and leaves, women wade into water up [...]
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Rut’s journey with Kundalini Yoga began in 2007 allowing her to find new levels of awareness, confidence and joy in her everyday life and overcome long existing back problems. In Sept 2008, Rut completed her formal Kundalini Yoga teacher training and began to teach. This discipline is relevant to all walks of life and offers [...]
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Stories and Songs of the People is a unique collaboration of outstanding performing artists, each of whom maintains an international reputation but come together to share Indigenous Peoples Traditions in storytelling, Dance, Music and Art. The concept originated from a desire by indigenous peoples in Australia and the United States of America to share their [...]
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Hosted by Southern Cross University’s Gnibi College of Australian Indigenous People, you are invited to participate in a unique cultural and educational exchange. Main Forum subjects include Myths, Misnomers, Education and the Nature of Being. Smaller forums throughout the weekend will be posted on the Notice Board. Space is limited so signing up at the [...]
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Image as story; cultural expression through the arts The Inter-National Indigenous People’s Village presents a vibrant exhibition of Indigenous Australian visual art highlighting a diversity of techniques and sacred narratives across three Australian states. Janet Nakamarra Long (Warlpiri Central Desert/Northern Territory), Danielle Burford (Wiradjuri/Central New South Wales), Tony Hart (Gumbaynggirr/North Coast New South Wales), Hope [...]
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Corrina Grace is the founder of Project Seres, an organization partnered with Bellingen based OzGREEN and based in Guatemala, Central America. Seres was first conceived in 2008 when Corrina returned to Australia after 10 months volunteering there with a group whose mission was to bring affordable and environmentally sound infrastructure to poor rural communities. On [...]
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