Do you want to know more about Aboriginal Cultural Immersions and Indigenous Workshops?

Here are some FAQ's - Frequently Asked Questions.

An Aboriginal Cultural Immersion is an engaging Australian Indigenous activity, performance, traditional ceremony, Aboriginal art workshop, or cultural experience provided to help all Australians better understand our Indigenous peoples, culture and histories. Aboriginal Cultural Immersions are both entertaining and educational.

All Aboriginal cultural immersions, activities, incursions, performances, and art workshops are facilitated by local Indigenous people who hold the cultural values, histories, and knowledge of their ancestors and Australia's First Nations peoples.

Aboriginal Cultural Immersions are presented in various locations, including Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Alice Springs, Darwin, Uluru, Newcastle, Wollongong, Geelong, the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Cairns, and many regional capitals.

All Indigenous ceremonies, workshops, performances, and activities booked through Aboriginal Cultural Immersions are specifically designed for Australian schools, businesses, sporting clubs, government departments, corporate events and conferences, and concert performances and community gatherings.

An Aboriginal Incursion is another name for Australia's national Aboriginal Cultural Immersions programs.

We provide Traditional Owners for Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremonies, Indigenous dancers, didgeridoo players, and songmen and women for traditional performances in full traditional dress and body ochres, as well as Aboriginal art and dance workshops. Cultural learning workshops, keynote speakers, basket weaving, Paint Your Own Boomerang workshops and more.....

You can download information brochures from this website that describe all the immersive Aboriginal Incursions, performances, activities, and workshops available for bookings across Australia.

Yidaki is the traditional name for the Aboriginal musical wind instrument, the didgeridoo.

Yes, we have didgeridoo (yidaki) players Australia-wide. And even though the didgeridoo is traditionally from the Northern Territory, the yidaki has been instrumental in bringing Aboriginal culture to non-Aboriginal Australians and the world. So the instrument is accepted by traditional owners as an essential part of reconciliation. Music is a universal language.

We have brochures available on this website or by email for Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, which cover each state as well. Other cities and centres will be added soon. Look on the top menu for your city.

There are over 500 First Nations language groups in Australia.

Indigenous Australians call these groups 'Mobs', and each Mob has its own clan name and territory or "Country".

Many of the neighbouring language clans have complex and integrated relationships, grouping as a 'Nation'. The 'Eora Nation' of the Greater Sydney region comprises 29 clans, all living on their own part of the country. 'Gadigal' is one Country within the Eora Nation.

Therefore, there are 500 separate Aboriginal countries on the Australian continent and surrounding islands.

A Welcome to Country is a traditional and ancient custom of the Aboriginal peoples across Australia used to seek or gain permission to enter another Aboriginal language group's territory. To be on country and/or for safe passage on that country.

"Welcome to Country" has evolved in recent years to suit modern Australia and is now used as a respectful greeting at corporate, government, sporting, and public events as a sign of respect to the Aboriginal peoples of the land on which we live and work. Welcome to Country must be delivered by a Traditional Owner or Aboriginal Elder of the language group that belongs to that part of the country.

In pre-colonial times, Welcome to Country was a custom observed between language groups of different Aboriginal countries. 

If people from a neighbouring part of the country wished to enter or pass through another clan's country or territory, traditional owners and elders who owned the country the neighbours wanted to pass through would meet them in the border regions.

Talks would be held, or a corroboree may be conducted, and if all were satisfactory, the tourist mob would be welcomed and granted access to or through the country. There are suggestions that the songlines sung at these meetings and corroborees also provided direction.

An Acknowledgement to Country is a modern creation that allows Aboriginal people, not only in their own part of country but also non-Aboriginal peoples, to acknowledge the traditional owners, elders and peoples of the land on which an event is being held.