Moogahlin Performing Arts

27/05/2026

This year, we’re asking our community to support First Peoples stories to soar.
Your donation helps Moogahlin carry upcoming works forward — from building maliyan wedge-tailed eagle wings for Healing Scars by Warren Mason at Carriageworks to helping projects like Koori Gras Divas Wilcannia: One Night Only reach community.

You can be the wind beneath our wings.
Donate today to support First Peoples stories to soar.
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25/05/2026

Support regional artists who are making a difference.

We’re excited to announce the beginning of our Yulugi Marumali: Momentum Pop-Up Dance Classes through the First Stories: Gadjigadji Program.

Come connect, move and grow with us through dance, storytelling and creativity.

📍 Yulugi Marumali Dance Studio

📅 Friday 22nd May

🕟 4:30pm – 6:00pm

Supported by Arts North West First Stories Program, creating opportunities for Aboriginal artists and communities across the region.

12/05/2026

Congrats toThe Visitors playwright Jane Harrison one of the winners of the 2026 Mona Brand Award for Women Stage and Screen Writers by The State Library of New South Wales

05/05/2026

Well said Stephen, we couldn’t do it without support and investment. Empowering communities through our languages enables us to build a confident community and grows the Creative Industries through language songs and dance. Together we are powerful, alone we are nothing 🖤💛❤️

24/04/2026

🌿 Big Rivers Sunday & Festival Close 🌿

The Big Rivers Sunday of the festival began with a legacy of circus and dance performance that weaved stories of a once healthy river system that sustained human beings for thousands of years, to the impacts of its current state.

Big Rivers, No Fish Feast — led by Shae Duncan (Gomeroi) and John and Catherine from Flying Fruit Fly Circus — brought together story, movement and environmental reflection. A legacy of Cultural Arts and performance speaking to our connection to land, water, amphibians, animals, reptiles and birds.

This was followed by a micro concert performed by Kelsey Barker (Murrawarri/Yuwaalaraay) and Warren Mason (Yuwaalaraay), supported by his beautiful wife, Donna. Together they shared music grounded in love of rivers, language and connection to the Ngunnhu.

The festival closed in a legacy of resistance and resilience for self-determined sovereignty with the world premiere screening of Always Was… by Stephen Wilson Barker.

Stephen has worked with Moogahlin for the past six years, and we are so happy to support these important stories.

Always Was… is a story about the words that changed Australia — grounded in the land rights movement that grew in the 1980s across Western New South Wales, and the formation of the Western Aboriginal Legal Service. It centres the people and communities along the Barwon, Baaka and Darling river systems who came together to fight for land, rights and justice.



Supported by Department of Primary Industries & Regional Development - Aboriginal Fishing Trust, Powerhouse Museum, Creative Australia, Create NSW, Aboriginal Languages Trust, Brewarrina RSL, The Fred Hollows Foundation and Brewarrina Local Aboriginal Land Council.

23/04/2026

💃 Koori Gras Divas 💃

Saturday night we gathered for a glitzy, glamorous, sparkling celebration of identity and strength — with a deadly lineup of the third Koori Gras Divas who delivered standout performances that not only moved us but got us moving.

Featuring
Katie Leslie (MC) Bran Nue Boi
Petina Petina Petina
Nova Gina
Destiny Haz Arrived

Koori Gras Divas returned to Baiame’s Ngunnhu Festival with full force — strong presence, humour, style and story across the stage — before the night opened out into a packed dance floor, carrying that energy well into the evening.

It was a space of expression and celebration, where community came together to connect, release and enjoy the moment — a different rhythm to the daytime, but just as grounded in gathering and weaving stories.



Supported by Brewarrina Shire Council, Creative Australia and Create NSW.

22/04/2026

FAMILY & CULTURE DAY + CARP MUSTER
🛍️🎣 Family & Culture Day + Carp Muster

Legacy continued through Family & Culture Day with more Language songs and dance — some familiar, some not.

From Hokey Pokey in Barkinji language with Olivia Whyman from the Barkinji Baaka Dancers, to learning how to introduce yourself and respond in Murrawarri language with Eleanor Clapham (Murrawarri) from Cheeky Tunes.

Workshops across the day included a Yidaki workshop with Owen Whyman (Barkinji) and Japanese Taiko Drumming with Moorambilla Voices, led by Jaylan Walford — Moorambilla Alumni and 2026 Taiko development artist — alongside Annabelle Rose Cole, 2026 Maxed Out ensemble member, both from Collarenebri.

Legacy continued across the gathering spaces, with the Weaving Circle led by Aunties-in-Residence — Denese Mason (Yuwaalaraay), Vera Nixon (Murrawarri) and Elizabeth Smith (Yuwaalaraay); Language and Art workshops led by the Murrawarri Women’s Group; and Erica Dixon (Wunkamara) weaving a women’s belt with local women from community.

A legacy of catching fish — only not to eat anymore due to the invasive carp species. So to creatively combat this and thanks to the experience of committee members of Bre Big Fish, our Mini Carp Muster was a huge success, with over 50 participants registered.

Across the weekend, there was also an impromptu performance by Dobby and Kelsey Barker, sharing songs they both hold and perform together — a moment of connection that carried through the festival.
A day grounded in participation, knowledge sharing and connection to community and Country.



Supported by Creative Australia, Create NSW, Department of Primary Industries & Regional Development - Aboriginal Fishing Trust, NSW Aboriginal Languages Trust, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Morrambilla Voices, Murrawarri Women's Group, NSW Aboriginal Land Council, Brewarrina Shire Council and Brewarrina Local Aboriginal Land Council.