5 Lands Walk Winter Festival — June 2024
Connecting people to people and people to place.
This spirited celebration of local diversity, culture and Aboriginal heritage is held annually in June on the weekend closest to the winter solstice.
It’s a series of cultural events where family, friends and the wider community are encouraged to celebrate life, have fun and connect to our deep Aboriginal history, settlement and who we are today.
The walk itself is 10km of spectacular coastline linking 5 villages from MacMasters Beach to Terrigal. The festival coincides with the peak of the humpback whale migrations, a totem of the Darkinjung people. Along the way, you experience Aboriginal ceremony and culture, music, dance, food, artworks, colourful kites and sculptures on the beach.
Keep an eye on the 5 Lands Walk website for the 2024 program.
Past Events
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2023 | Bravewords Live: 5 Lands Walk Festival Edition
Adrienne Ferreira and Rob Carlton hosted a special night of live storytelling at the Avoca Beach Theatre in the spirit of the 5 Lands Walk: celebrating stories, walking together.
With record audiences, we enjoyed hilarious and moving true stories told live by fabulous local storytellers Phil Bligh, Kate Ayrton, Luke Carman and ‘Paddleboat’ Mick Kilp.
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2022 | 5 Lands Words Exhibition
Avoca Beach Surf Club was host to the 5 Lands Words exhibition, a selection of illustrated true stories produced as part of Central Coast Writes, a community storytelling project presented by Bravewords.
Thousands of festival goers attending the 5 Lands Walk visited the exhibit, which featured a selection of the stories written by locals and illustrated in collage workshops with Jane Gillings.
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2021 | Stories of Place
In the middle of the pandemic, when people felt most isolated, we invited older Central Coast residents to write a story about a local place that was special to them. A school-age artist then read that story and created an artwork inspired by it. As part of the experience, the writer and artist had a Zoom conversation so that the artist could collect more details for their illustration.
This collection of stories was to be exhibited at the Avoca Beach Surf Club during the 5 Lands Walk Festival, but it was exhibited online instead when Covid disrupted the festival program.