NPA Cultural Festival


NPA Cultural Festival is a brand new event.

And it is a great one.

It is now our third indigenous dance festival along with Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival and the Torres Strait Cultural Festival on Thursday Island, and already on its first year, 2014, it was no worse in quality.


It is held in early October, and it is yet to be decided whether the event will be held every year or every second year.


As the name says it is held in the Northern Peninsula Area, in its largest community, Bamaga.
   npa cultural festival

More exactly at the Oval, also called Yusia - Ginau Memorial Field.
   npa cultural festival grounds

There is plenty of room,
   npa cultural festival flags

... and food and other stalls,
   npa cultural festival stalls

... it was just that in 2014 with the event too new to even be known, there weren't that many people.
   npa cultural festival food

The best thing as always was the dancing, which was mostly on night time. 
   injinoo dance group

At the 2014 NPA Cultural Festival there were the Aboriginal dancing groups like Injinoo,
   mapoon dance group

Mapoon, Aurukun,
   aurukun dance group

... Lockhart River ...
   lockhart river dance group

... and New Mapoon.
   new mapoon dance group

There were also the Djakapurra Munyarryun and Albert David,
   djakapurra munyarryun

... and the
Torres Strait Islander group Wabu Nan Geth (Kauraregas from Umagico).

umagico dance group wabu nan geth dance group

But the furtherest guests on the 2014 NPA Cultural Festival were the Saibai Islander dancers,
   saibai island dance group

... the people who travelled all the way from the second northernmost Torres Strait Island, only eight kilomteres from the Papua New Guinea coast.
   moeyoengu koekaperr dance group

Their songs and dances were also different,

saibai islanders saibai women

... and the way they dressed.
   moeyoengu koekaperr

There were also a few other activities including a fashion parade,

   npa cultural festival fashion parade

... and in the end of the last night were fireworks, which were some of the better we have seen.
   npa cultural festival fire works

Below are the videos from the NPA Cultural Festival 2014:

Mapoon Dancing



Injinoo Dancing



Lockhart River



Saibai Island



Mau Power singing My Island Home







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