Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council

Presents

2018 KEEP THE FLAME OF CULTURE BURNING FESTIVAL

Welcome Message From the Northern Peninsula Area Mayor Edward Newman

I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land in which we meet and gather here today on these festival grounds. I pay my respects to the elders past, present and future.

Welcome to the Northern Peninsula Area as we celebrate the 2018 Keep the Flame of Culture Burning

Festival. This is our 3rd biannual cultural event that started in 2014 and its great how this event draws crowds from across the Cape and Torres Strait Region. The Northern Peninsula Area is a bridge between both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Cultures and we are so proud to be able to share this event spectacular with you all. The Biannual NPA Cultural Festival brings unity within the five communities to entwine the different cultures and share historic stories, language, knowledge and future aspects for all to learn. Whilst the Festival showcase the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island cultures we also acknowledge other cultures who have made Australia and the Northern Peninsula Area home. Therefore, On behalf of the Northern Peninsula Area Communities and Event Staff, please enjoy the festivities and hospitality of the Northern Peninsula Area. Esso,

Edward Newman NPA District Mayor NPARC - Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council | BAMAGA

Welcome Message from the Minister for Tourism Industry Development, Honourable Kate Jones MP

A very warm welcome to the Keep The Flame of Culture Burning Festival 2018. This unique cultural festival aims to promote local talent, artists, cultural dance groups, produce and products from the Bamaga and surrounding Torres Strait Island communities. This free event will also offer cultural food, local arts and craft stalls, and traditional carving workshops, art exhibitions, history walks and local historical tours. The Queensland Government is proud to support this event through Tourism and Events Queensland’s Destinations Events Program, which helps to drive visitation, support jobs and foster community pride. Congratulations to the event organisers, partners and volunteers involved in delivering this great experience for Tropical North Queensland. I encourage visitors to take advantage of their stay in Tropical North Queensland to explore the region’s vast range of tourism experiences, from the Great Barrier Reef to the world’s most ancient rainforest, the Daintree.

The Hon. Kate Jones, MP Minister for Tourism Industry Development

2018 KEEP THE FLAME OF CULTURE BURNING FESTIVAL

Free Community Events Tues,3rd July 6:00pm – 9:00pm

QUEENSLAND THEATRE PRODUCTION | MY NAME IS JIMI It’s not a musical, not a comedy show, it’s both! A combination of singing, comedy, drama and action. The My Name is Jimi Show featuring the Bani family is a theatrical showcase that has travelled across Australia performing to sell out shows in Brisbane, Cairns, Thursday Island and Sydney. The show is about life growing up in the Torres Strait Islands, the escalades, troubles, culture and family. PERFORMANCES

- Naygayiw Gigi - Emerging Arts Dancers - Kayin Thithuyl Seisia Dancers

Umagico Hall

Wed, 4th July 6:30am – 12:00pm

INJINOO COMMUNITY CELEBRATION | LIGHTING OF THE FLAME The Lighting of the Cultural Fire Stick signifies unity of the five communities within the Northern Peninsula Area. The Cultural Fire Stick will be lit at the opening ceremony held on the original settlement of the Gudang/Yadhaykenu land. The lit Fire Stick will become part of a Fire Stick relay as it travels to all community events and activities before heading into the main festival grounds of Bamaga. Join in the community celebrations with free community breakfasts, market stalls, historical tours, weaving workshops, cultural performances and live music. CULTURAL PERFORMANCES

- Cowal Creek - Injinoo Dancers - Injinoo Dancers 2 - Yarrabah - Emerging Artist Dancers and Singers

Injinoo Lookout

12:30pm – 1:00pm FIRE STICK RELAY | INJINOO CULTURAL FLOAT

1:00pm – 6:00pm UMAGICO COMMUNITY CELEBRATION | UNITY MARCH The Umagico community welcome all families and visiting guests to attend the Umagico celebrations. Beginning at the Central bus stop, the Umagico dance group Wabuna Geth will welcome the Cultural Fire Stick into the community from Injinoo. A unity march will take place as the torch makes its way around the community which leads to the Umagico Community Hall.

Central Park Umagico

CULTURAL PERFORMANCES - Wabuna Geth - Kawadji Wimpa Lockhart River Dancers - Kyen Kousal - Emerging Artist Dancers and Singers

Umagico Hall

TRADITIONAL SPORTS GAMES | WORKSHOPS

Castie

Yam Digging

Weaving

Screen Printing, Totem Stencils

Umagico Sports Field

Thurs, 5th July 6:30am – 12:00pm

SEISIA COMMUNITY CELEBRATION | BIG ISLAND BREAKFAST

Seisia community celebration will begin with the free BIG ISLAND BBQ breakfast, a feast for all families and visiting guests. Enjoy the early morning sunrise on the shores of Seisia whilst listening to the elders of Seisia speak on the migration from Saibai Island into Mutee Heads.

Seisia Beach Front

SAND SCULPTURING | LIFE SIZE TURTLE AND CROCODILE TOTEMS Dennis Mousand from Brisbane will be in Seisia creating life-size turtle and crocodile totems. Dennis has travelled across Australia creating life size sculptures from sand.

CULTURAL PERFORMANCES ON THE BEACH - Kayn Thithuyl - Muyngu Koekaper Saibai Island Dancers - Nga Matawaka New Zealand Dancers - Lower Coastal Yidinji

MARK OLIVE COOKING DEMONSTRATION Join renowned Chef Mark Olive as he cooks traditional bush foods. Mark Olive has travelled internationally showcasing Aboriginal Foods.

FIRESTICK RELAY | HORSEACK RIDERS 1:30pm – 5:00pm NEW MAPOON COMMUNITY CELEBRATION | UNITY IN HARMONY

A fun and exciting program set for the whole family. New Mapoon is a contingent of families who were controversially relocated from Old Mapoon to New Mapoon.

Late Charlie Lifu

CULTURAL PERFORMANCES - New Mapoon Dancers - Vaiana Cook Islanders - Wujal Wujal Dancers

Memorial Park New Mapoon

ARTS EXHIBTION The Northern Peninsula Area artists will showcase their best art work pieces in our 3rd Biannual Arts Exhibition for the region. This is an Interactive Arts Exhibition and join the artists for a light supper and Q+A.

NPA Arts Centre

6:00pm – 9:00pm QUEENSLAND THEATRE PRODUCTION | MY NAME IS JIMI It’s not a musical, not a comedy show, it’s both! A combination of singing, comedy, drama and action. The My Name is Jimi Show featuring the Bani family is a theatrical showcase that has travelled across Australia performing to sell out shows in Brisbane, Cairns, Thursday Island and Sydney. The show is about life growing up in the Torres Strait Islands, the escalades, troubles, culture and family. Entertainment:

- Naygayiw Gigi - Emerging Arts Dancers - Kayin Thithuyl Seisia Dancers

Bamaga Hall

Frid, 6th July 1:00pm – 2:00pm

BAMAGA | TOO DEADLY FLOAT PARADE The main street of Bamaga will be dressed in Cultural clothing as the community will come together in a float parade competition. Community clubs will be in a chance to win in a prize pool of $20,000. In its 2nd year the float parade is a colourful spectacular with cultural singing and dancing.

Adidi St, Bamaga

2:00pm – 5:00pm WELCOMING CEREMONY | INVITED GUESTS , GROUPS AND FRIENDS Local dance groups and residents will welcome all visiting groups onto country in a mass Welcome to Country conducted by the Gudang/Yadhaykenu clan. Over 500 performs will march onto the festival grounds representing their respective communities and region.

Yusia Ginau Oval

5:00pm – 7:00pm LIVE DANCE AND MUSIC - NPA Dance Group - Emerging Arts Dancers - Blak Koral Band

7:30pm – 8:00pm HEADLINE ACT CHRISTINE ANU Acclaimed artists Christine Anu will perform in Bamaga for the first time. Hit songs such as My Island Home, Sunshine on a Rainy Day and Kulbya Daya. Christine Anu is Australia’s most prolific Indigenous Artist and will be performing for the festival attendees.

Sat, 7th July

10:00am – 12:00pm

BAMAGA BRUNCH Join the Bamaga Community for brunch at the Bamaga Hall before a full day of cultural performances. This will also be a time where the Guba Markai Cultural Group will accept the Laura Dance Shield from the Kuranda Dancers. Guba Markai Cultural Group represented Bamaga at the laura Dance Festival in 2017 and received 1st place alongside Kuranda and Lockhart River. CULTURAL PERFORMANCES

Bamaga Hall Yusia Ginau Oval

1:00pm – 7:00pm Yarrabah Dancers 1 New Mapoon Dancers

Wujal Wujal Lower Coastal Yidinji Sarpeye Dancers

Kayin Kowsal Cowal Creek Injinoo Dancers 1 Injinoo Dancers 2 Wabuan Gedh

Palm Island Beribal Dancers Kawadji Wimpa Dancers Lockhart River

Nga Matawaka Maori Culture Group

Vaiana Cook Island Entertainers

Muyngu Koekaper Saibai Dancers

7:30pm – 8:30pm LIVE MUSIC Join local artist and well-known artists SK Boiz

9:00pm – 10:00pm FIREWORKS DISPLAY A 1 hour Firework display to end the 2018 Keep the Flame of Culture Burning Festival.

10:00pm CLOSING

Christine Anu – Australia Most Iconic

Indigenous Artist

Christine Anu is one of Australia’s most successful Indigenous performers. Trained in dance at the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA), her illustrious career spans more than two decades including music, theatre, dance, film and television and public speaking.

Christine has made widely-acclaimed appearances in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge, The Matrix Reloaded and Dating the Enemy; on television in Wild side, The Alice, East West 101, Playschool and was a judge in Channel 7’s Popstars. Christine’s success on stage includes Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom, Little Shop of Horrors, Rent, Parramatta Girls and The Sapphires, for which she received the Judith Johnson Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical at the Sydney Theatre Awards.

Christine is a multi-award winning recording artist, including three ARIA awards. She has toured nationally and abroad, including Vietnam, North America, China, the Middle East and Papa New Guinea. Christine has also performed at many momentous events, including Sydney 2000 Olympics Closing Ceremony, Women of APEC, G’Day Australia, 50 Years of Television, APEC Cultural Performance, Sydney Paralympics, FINA World Swimming Championships, and 25th Anniversary of Carols in the Domain and flicked the switch to launch National Indigenous Television in Australia.

Christine is the co-creator of the ARIA and Deadly nominated children’s brand Chrissy’s Island Family and the successful concept shows Ladies of Jazz and Women of Soul

Ian Zaro – Festival Emcee

Ian Zaro is the Townsville funny man who’s rise of fame was somewhat accidental. A class clown by nature, Zaro began uploading videos using Dub-smash, an app that lets users lip-sync over popular movies, songs and shows. His colourful and energetic presence fast drew attention, with his clips going viral for the right reasons (even generating international headlines more than once) along with millions of views, likes and shares. Today, he is well known as the ‘Dub-smash’ King, ‘Your Blackness’, and for his signature hair which has its own fan-base alone. Ian has also amassed an online following of over 80,000 on his Facebook page, plus another 15,000+ followers across his other social media channels. On television, his dream of appearing in a sketch comedy became a reality in 2016 after being approached by producers at ABC to feature and star in the second season of their ground-breaking series Black Comedy. With his face on television screens nationally, Ian became a hit audiences as he featured alongside some of Australia’s biggest indigenous stars. Since then, Zaro has gone on to feature in segments for 7 news, a TVC for Ace Voting, and he regularly appears across the NITV network in various commercials, segments and interviews across Australia. Aside from his entertainment commitments, Zaro also advocates for many organisations and causes, in- particular those involving youth, and mental & physical wellbeing through public speaking gigs, workshops, marketing, ambassadorships and youth mentoring. He currently works at TAIHS Youth Homeless Shelter.

My Name is Jimi – Featuring the Bani family.

Mabuiag Island: a remote speck in Mabuiag Island: a remote speck in the sparkling blue of the Torres Strait. Thousands of years of history and culture, with just a few hundred people keeping its flame alive. Now its favourite son is joking in three languages with his grandmother and torturing his son with spontaneous public breakdancing.

Jimi Bani whisks you away to his island for an evening of music, dance, standup comedy and storytelling. Four generations of one family take the stage, as Jimi’s grandmother, mother, son and brothers help him spin yarns of totems, traditions and childhood memories. This is Jimi Bani’s superb testimony to his culture. It’s joyous, charming, and unlike anything you’ve seen before. A Queensland Theatre production co-presented with the Keep the Flame of Culture Burning Festival. This project is proudly funded by Arts Queensland and the Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council. Limited seats are capped at 200 people per venue. Bookings essential – Contact Kori Totorewa 07 4048 6600.

Chef Mark Olive – “Black Olive” Mark Olive, known as ‘The Black Olive’ is Australia’s most celebrated and renowned Indigenous chef. He has been cooking for more than 30 years and his charismatic style and creative approach to food have developed him an esteemed reputation and a large following in Australia and around the world. Mark has cooked and presented locally in Melbourne, across Australia and around the world and is in frequent demand to present and appear at food events, Indigenous celebrations and representing Australia’s vibrant culinary and cultural tapestry, right across the world. Mark is also a host of cooking, lifestyle and travel shows, with his The Outback Cafe series televised in living rooms all over the planet. Mark has a passion for fusing native and Indigenous Australian ingredients with contemporary cooking techniques to create a dynamic and unique gastronomic philosophy. This has led to a remarkable international profile, and the creation of Black Olive Catering, an indigenous catering company in North Melbourne, Victoria. As a Bundjalung man, Mark’s family originated from the Northern Rivers region in NSW. Born in Wollongong, he became interested in cooking as a child after watching his mother and aunts prepare meals. He trained under a European chef and has worked in a variety of kitchen environments ranging from theatres, universities, health services, film sets and in a lá carte restaurants around the globe, as well as cooking in the bush and the earth, some of nature’s greatest appliances. In 2008 Mark established his own catering business to share the tastes and flavours of Indigenous Australia that he has melded with his contemporary cooking style. Limited numbers, bookings essential – Contact Mabelene Whap Seisia IKC 07 40693690.

Too Deadly Float Parade

Our 3rd Float parade will take place along Adidi Street on Friday 4th July at 1:00pm. Community groups, Government organisations and sports clubs will dress up their dinghy’s, utes and trucks. The float parade will showcase the regions culture and arts. This is set be a colourful and bright event spectacular.

Important Notice Please be aware that road conditions will change during the float parade time of 12:00pm – 3:00pm. Road closures: Cnr Lui St and Adidi St. Entrances onto Adidi st from businesses Please observe road signage. For any concerns contact: 0438 135 775

Community Profile – Injinoo

The first established settlement in the NPA region was that of five semi-nomadic tribes, who came together in peace to settle in Injinoo originally known as Cowal Creek (meaning Small River). These clans were the Gudang /Yadhaykenu, Angamuthi and Atambaya clans. Their descendants, the people of Injinoo, are the traditional owners of the land. The people of Injinoo still practise traditional hunting rights and cultural ceremonies, including traditional dance, song and cooking. To maintain proper management of the land and its resources, The Aputhama Lands Trust board was established. They work closely with the NPA Rangers, based in Injinoo, to manage traditionally owned land.

Community Profile – Umagico Formed by one of Injinoo’s founding families, the Williams, who wanted to live separate to the community, George Williams was at the time working on a cattle station and living in Umagico with permission from the traditional owners, Gudang Yadhaykenu clan. Due to better health facilities and support, the people of Lockhart River relocated to Umagico. The community’s name means ‘Black headed python place’.

Community Profile – Bamaga When the people of Saibai Island began to fear for their future supplies of fresh water, a few families decided to relocate to the mainland. Saibai Island is a small Island (approximately 6km-20km) built up from alluvial soils washed from the river systems of neighbouring islands of Papua New Guinea, only 5km North. The island is prone to flooding, often contaminating fresh water supplies with storm surges. In 1948, a government reservation was created for the people of Saibai Island wishing to migrate to the mainland. The Injinoo people granted permission for them to settle in their area now known as Mutee Heads, as construction of the Bamaga township was underway. By 1954, the majority of construction was completed and more Saibai Islander families moved to the mainland to settle in Bamaga. The community was named after its founder, Bamaga Ginau and is now the administrative hub of the NPA, as it is in the centre of the five communities.

Community Profile – New Mapoon The people of Mapoon (now known as Old Mapoon), were forcibly removed from their homes and mission housing in the 1960s, to allow for Bauxite mining to commence in the area. Some went south to resettle near Cairns, some moved North to a resettlement in the NPA, named New Mapoon. Though they are traditionally a peoples from the coast, the settlement was chosen as appropriate due to the fresh water spring located at the back of the community. Indeed, the area was traditionally named after ‘Mandingu’, meaning ‘Place of spring’. The people of Mapoon still have very strong ties to their homeland, and some have moved back to resettle in the area of their original community. They still practice culture through telling the stories of their ancestors and homelands through art, song and dance. The NPA Arts Centre is based in New Mapoon, a centre open to the community, to support all forms of Indigenous Australian art.

Community Profile – Seisia

The final community to be settled in the NPA is Seisia, another settlement of Saibai Islander people. The island people preferred to live by the sea, so as more families followed in pursuit of fresh water and land, they resettled at the site of the old Red Island Wharf. The name Seisia is made up from the first letter of each of the brothers Sagaukauz, Elu, Ibuai, Sunai, Isua and Aken, the founding brothers of the community. Seisia wharf provides the region with shipping and ferry services, as well as being a popular local fishing spot.

Cultural Fire Stik Tour

The Cultural fire Stik made its way around the Cape, Torres Strait Islands, Cairns and Surrounding areas. Mayor Newman

would like to acknowledge all communities who welcomed the Fire Stik into their communities. The Fire Stik is a message

of unity and celebration of culture between our neighbouring NPA communities.

Thank you to our partnering sponsors for your support in making the 2018 Keep the Flame of Culture Bruning Festival a great success.

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