Global Gathering
Free multicultural community event
Experience the colour, sound, taste and diversity of our city as we celebrate the many diaspora that call Newcastle home. Connect with community as we take over Museum Park with a vibrant celebration of diverse traditions, food, art forms, and cultural expressions.
Experience the colour, sound, taste and diversity of our city as we celebrate the many diaspora that call Newcastle home. Connect with community as we take over Museum Park with a vibrant celebration of diverse traditions, food, art forms, and cultural expressions. Join our MC across two stages for food demonstrations, live music, dance, and performances by world music favourites, Worlds Collide and The Ghana Road Show.
This free community event will feature cooking demonstrations, interactive kids workshops and a wide range of musical and dance performances including a colourful lion dance by Jin Wu Koon, belly dancing and African drum and dance displays, as well as a fire show and DJ sets.
Registrations are not required, but you may register your interest to receive future updates & weather notices. Please note exact schedule timings are subject to change.
SCHEDULE
2:00pm Welcome to Country
2:05pm Maria Maroulis
2:50pm Dance on Newy
3:45pm Jack Chambers
5:05pm Jin Wu Koon Lion Dance
5:40pm African Brothers
7:20pm Ghana Road Show
8:20pm Worlds Collide
Please see printable sitemap and schedule here.
Cultural Workshops & Makers Tent
Throughout the event, drop by Luke Russell's Ngiarrenumba Burrai (Our Country) workshops focused on First Nations cultural practice of weaving, art and clap sticks. Learn about art, henna tattoos and lantern making at the Makers Tent.
Eat Street
Gourmet food providers from around the globe will be offering delicious food on 'Eat Street' during the event, as well as sharing their tips with live cooking demonstrations.
The Ghana Road Show fuse theatre, circus, dance and music, in an unforgettable celebration of the richness of West African arts told through a contemporary lens. This captivating all-ages show entwines thrilling circus acts with traditional African dance and rhythmic drum beats set to the freshly curated tunes of DJ Lady Chika.
Worlds Collide are straight out of the urban jungles of Western Sydney... Riffs, Rhymes and Culture. Worlds Collide is the intersection of our multicultural nation, with seven cultures coming together creating new contemporary Australian music. They weave a global and contemporary sound into their infectious music, fusing culture, hip hop rhymes, grooves, melodic hooks and languages into a fun, authentic and powerful experience.
WET WEATHER CONTINGENCY
In the unlikely event of extreme weather impacting this event, news will be posted on social media and on this event page. We will also email all those who have registered for updates.
ARTISTS & COLLABORATORS
Expect world music from across the globe, food trucks to tempt the taste buds, and dance, food and cultural workshops.
New Annual acknowledges the assistance of the NSW Government through the Multicultural NSW "Stronger Together" grant. Without their support, Global Gathering would not be possible.
