Ganbu Gulin: Gugung Murrup invites all residents, old and new, to be welcomed onto Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country.

Co-presented by FUSE and the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation

Ganbu Gulin, meaning “One Mob” in the Woi-Wurrung language, is an annual inclusive celebration where new citizens to Darebin are formally welcomed to Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country with a Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony.

This year’s event, Ganbu Gulin: Gugung Murrup has been curated by Darebin local and FUSE Curator-In-Residence Allara Briggs Pattison. Allara is a powerful Yorta Yorta winyarr. She is a storyteller, composer, director, producer, musician and sound designer. With humour and integrity, Allara uses the double-bass and sound samples from Country to weave textures for healing in her work ‘I am Sovereign, I am Free’. Allara’s innovative music speaks to Blak justice and sovereignty.

The Curator-in-Residence program highlights inclusive and artist-driven works, bringing together local creatives and musicians in a new location at Bundoora Park Farm, for this signature FUSE event.

Ganbu Gulin reminds us Country, our kin, our wise teacher and holder of knowledge, story and songline, our Elder, reminds us of a Matriarch’s wisdom within us all. There is a softness, a slowness, and an intelligence within her workings that we are intrinsically linked to and when all are in harmony, we all thrive. Yorta Yorta Elders call the bush, our university and supermarket, our Country has everything we need, in generosity and abundance, but what do we do when we live off our traditional homelands? And how do we pay respect and care for the lands and people where we live now?