Tropical North Queensland's newest First Nations arts, cultures and ideas festival

Tropical North Queensland's newest First Nations/Bama MULTI-ARTS LIGHT FESTIVAL

Shine On Gimuy is an immersive First Nations/Bama led multi-arts light festival, led by Artistic Director, Rhoda Roberts AO. Held along the glistening foreshore of tropical Gimuy/Cairns, the 2024 festival will bring the Gimuy/Cairns Esplanade and Salt House Festival Hub to life from 3-13 October.
 
 Hosted by the Yidinji Nation, on their homelands, Shine On Gimuy is a celebration of all forms of First Nations storytelling, showcasing innovative and thriving arts and cultural practices, as well as illuminating insights into music, academia, philosophy, and science.
 
Artstory Light Walk 

In 2024, the Shine On Gimuy Artstory Light Walk will once again be a mesmerising and entrancing installation of public art, light sculptures and soundscapes! This immersive installation will reflect the colours and beauty of Tropical North Queensland through the eyes and imaginations of First Nations and Bama artists!
 
 From Thursday 3 - Sunday 13, October the Artstory Light Walk will be free for families and the general public to attend, from 5pm daily. The installations will be situated alongside the 'Gimuy Boulevard' of fig trees, adjacent to the Cairns Lagoon, The Pier Shopping Centre and Esplanade Eastern Events Lawn. Bringing the nights to life in a spectacular display of art, cultures and colours, our 2024 visual artists are:

 Marun Carl Fourmile

 Merindi Schrieber

 Doreen Collins

Music Makers 

Celebrating 2024’s NAIDOC theme of ‘Blak! Loud! Proud!’ our Shine On Gimuy Music Makers program will present performances by nationally celebrated and local established and emerging performers. Each day from Friday 4 - Sunday 6 October, 2024, the Salt House Festival Hub will be filled with song and the voices of First Nations musical talents, with performances into the afternoons and night. 

Deep Wisdom Conversations 

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩 — 𝙎𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙩𝙮 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙮, 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

First Nations Cultures have survived for over 65,000 years due to the oral traditions of storytelling and education. Talking and holding conversations is key to First Nations peoples and to the diplomacy and ideas of the world today. In fact, the hard times of the 20th and 21st Centuries can only be addressed through powerful oration, ideas and philosophies–as well as sciences–all beckoning a new era of Truth-Telling!

 Topics for this year's conversations range from:
 
 Music industry and music-making,  Truth-Telling: History, Futurism, Society  Sovereignty  Shaping the Future: Ancient to Modern  Rising Waters & TensionsProfessor 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗮 (Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Education & Strategy),
 Distinguished Professor 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗨𝗹𝗺 (Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories),
 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀, (GetUp’s CEO, and Director of Research for Passing the Message Stick).