NGARRA JARRA NOUN HEALING CEREMONY 🖤
📍 Victoria Park, Naarm
19th April
🕛 12PM – 6PM
Join us for a powerful day of healing, culture, and community as we come together to honour and pay tribute to the Stolen Generations.
We remember the strength, resilience, and survival of our people, and create space for truth-telling, reflection, and collective healing grounded in culture and connection to Country.
Special performances by:
🎤 Kutcha Edwards
🎤 Miss Hood
🎤 Amos Roach
🎤 DT
🎤 Chainbreaker & Darah
✨ 100+ Cultural Dancers
🖤 Community stalls
🖤 Service providers
🖤 Kids activities
A day for mob and allies to come together, stand strong, and heal as one.
We pay our deepest respects to the Stolen Generations, their families, and our Elders past and present.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
#NgarraJarra #HealingCeremony #StolenGenerations #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #BlakExcellence CommunityHealing FirstNations NaarmEvents AboriginalCulture TruthTelling
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NGARRA JARRA NOUN HEALING CEREMONY 🖤
📍 Victoria Park, Naarm
📅 19th April
🕛 12PM – 6PM
Join us for a powerful day of healing, culture, and community as we come together to honour and pay tribute to the Stolen Generations.
We remember the strength, resilience, and survival of our people, and create space for truth-telling, reflection, and collective healing grounded in culture and connection to Country.
Special performances by:
🎤 Kutcha Edwards
🎤 Miss Hood
🎤 Amos Roach
🎤 DT
🎤 Chainbreaker & Darah
✨ 100+ Cultural Dancers
🖤 Community stalls
🖤 Service providers
🖤 Kids activities
A day for mob and allies to come together, stand strong, and heal as one.
We pay our deepest respects to the Stolen Generations, their families, and our Elders past and present.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
#NgarraJarra #HealingCeremony #StolenGenerations #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #BlakExcellence CommunityHealing FirstNations NaarmEvents AboriginalCulture TruthTelling
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Ngarra Jarra Noun Healing Ceremony to Honour Stolen Generations Families
The Indigenous Sports Network proudly presents the Ngarra Jarra Noun Healing Ceremony, a powerful cultural gathering dedicated to healing, connection, and honouring Stolen Generations families.
Taking place on Sunday 19 April at Victoria Park from 12pm–6pm, the event will bring together community, culture, and ceremony in a safe and welcoming space for reflection and strength.
This significant gathering is delivered in partnership with Grandmothers Against Removal Victoria, recognising the ongoing impact of intergenerational trauma while celebrating resilience, culture, and community leadership.
Aunty Rieo Ellis “We need to support our community healing events and support GMAR Victoria”.
The day will feature a strong lineup of respected artists and voices including Kutcha Edwards, Amos Roach, DT, Miss Hood, Chainbreaker and Darah alongside a deeply meaningful healing ceremony led by cultural dance groups.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to connect through a Mindful Mob Healing Market, showcasing and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses. Traditional Dance and Games workshops for Children.
The Ngarra Jarra Noun Healing Ceremony is more than an event—it is a space for truth-telling, cultural strength, and collective healing. It invites all to stand in solidarity with Stolen Generations families and to walk together towards a stronger future grounded in respect and understanding.
Sponsors - East Dhelk Dja Action Group, Moondani Balluk Victoria University, Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, First Peoples Health & Wellbeing, VACCA, Weenthunga Health Network, Collingwood Football Club, VAHS, Vic Health, Link Up Victoria, Pullman Hotels Melb on the Park, Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Corporation and TJ Garvie Photography
Event Details:
What: Ngarra Jarra Noun Healing Ceremony
When: Sunday 19 April, 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Where: Victoria Park
Hosted by: Indigenous Sports Network
Media Enquiries:
Nathan Lovett-Murray
Indigenous Sports Networks
43 Fletcher St Essendon Vic 3040
[email protected]
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Thank you to everyone who came through yesterday to our compost : compose public programme, and making it another full house!
Congratulations to all the artists involved, particularly performing artists on the day: DT, Sarah Iman and Mwaffaq Al-Hajjar
Thank you for your thoughtful & breathtaking contributions, vulnerability, artistry & honesty.
Big thanks to Shalini Kunahlan for moderating the artist talk so carefully.
Big thanks to Shiralee Hood for her guidance during the selection process.
And to Elyse Goldfinch and the team at Next Wave for hosting us.
These conversations are not happening enough in Naarm.
It was a collective effort to create & share such a brave space.
The relationships we are nurturing will benefit from us expressing a preference.
Even if it risks temporary (or lasting) discord. It’s all alignment after all, right?
For far too long independent artists and curators have been underpaid and extracted from for institutional benefit.
It is in our hands to create new realities, to compose new ways of cultural production, and new terms of engagement…
or refusal to engage, to free our energy to create new counter-spaces.
There are infinite ways for artists to express themselves and for curators to programme and uplift work that is relevant in these vile and violent times we are living in.
Growth and new opportunities won’t come from clinging to the status quo.
Thanks for being part of such an important conversation.
In Strength & Love,
Rasha
📷 @dj_lore85
