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First Ngangga Community Festival a success

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PERFECTLY placed to celebrate NAIDOC Week, the start of the school holidays and the progress being made by Victoria’s Statewide Treaty Bill; last Sunday’s first Ngangga Community Festival was judged a significant success.

Chair of the event organising committee for the Bass Coast Reconciliation Network, Kate Adams, couldn’t have been more delighted.

“The aim of the festival is to bring the broader community along to celebrate NAIDOC and to celebrate and share our First Nations’ history, culture and stories.

“And we’ve seen a lot of support for that today.

“We want to create an opportunity for people to come together to listen, to hear and to understand and that’s what Ngangga means.”

A feature of the day was a smoking ceremony on the lawns in front of Berninneit Cultural Centre in Cowes, Milawul before the festival opened, the stalls of art, craft and children’s cultural workshops inside and a number of musical performances including by Phillip Island resident Uncle Kutcha Edwards.

Ms Adams thanked all those organisations and individuals who supported the day and expected to be in a position to run it again next year.