Heartdancers

30/09/2026

🌏 GLOBAL TABLE at New Annual 🌏
Two nights where the world sits down together in Newcastle

There is a table where every culture has a seat. Where rhythm is the first language, and heritage is something you carry in your body, not your suitcase. This weekend, Heartdancers brings some of the most extraordinary talent we know to that table, and we are saving a seat for you. ✨

📍 Wheeler Place, between the Civic Theatre and the Clarendon Hotel, Newcastle
🕔 5:00pm to 9:00pm, both nights
🎤 Hosted by Jennifer Wong and Benjamin Law (Friday)

FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER

🎧 6:00pm to 7:00pm | Maggie Tra
A weaver of musical threads. Sydney-based DJ, producer and community builder of Vietnamese and Cambodian heritage, Maggie spins melody, tempo and Asian influence into a bridge between Australia and Asia. Founder of SYS Sister Sounds and Pho The Girls, she has carried her sound from Hà Nội to Berlin, London and beyond. Come ready to move.

SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER

💃 5:10pm and 6:30pm | Mexidahlia Folkloric Dance
Mexico doesn’t just arrive on stage. It erupts. Australia’s most respected Mexican dance company brings centuries of story in every stamp, every swirl of colour, every surge of music. Not a performance. A transmission.

🎺 7:00pm | MIRA Magdalena Mira
Some music lives in the body before it reaches the mind. Jazz-trained Latin vocalist Magdalena Mira returns home to the rhythms and spirits of South America, joined by masters including Cesar Marin, Ricardo Cancino and Julio Candela. Rhythm, sweat and harmony, played by people who carry it in their blood. As Magdalena says, “the roots are the strongest thing.”

Free. Open to all. Bring your family, your friends, your whole heart. 🧡

Because when we share our cultures, we remember we belong to each other.

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23/09/2026

The rhythm is rising! 🥁✨ Join us Monday 28 September for The Art of Us Opening Day Party.

It’s a free, family-friendly school holiday activity celebrating culture, creativity and community, part of the NEIGHBOURHOOD program for Welcoming Week, proudly supported by Central Coast Council .

🔥 Tim Girri Girra — Smoking Ceremony, sharing ancestral knowledge and keeping culture alive through dance and song
🎨 Gambirra — Community Artwork, 27 years as a Cultural Arts educator and mental health advocate
🎤 Magdalena Mira — Live Music, Chilean singer now on the Central Coast, bringing the soul of Latin music
💃 Paramjit Singh —Indian Dance, blending Bhangra, Kathak and modern styles
🥁 Marina Da Silva & Gabzak — Brazilian Drum & Dance Jam, led by dancer and percussionist Marina, drawing on her Brazilian heritage
🎨 Be Happy | Face painting — colourful, skin-friendly face painting for all ages
🎥 GabzaK - Visual Art — The Wonders of Water video art installation
🌭 Free BBQ

📍 The Entrance Community Centre Complex
🕑 Mon 28 Sept, 2–4pm
🎟️ FREE, RSVP essential, link in bio

Come move. Come create. Come be part of Us. 🌏

17/09/2026

Sunday, we made history.

RITUALS: The Sacred. The Now. The In-Between. filled Machine Hall + Vault for one day, and for the first time in this country, we told our own stories, on our own terms, sharing space with the oldest living culture on Earth.

Fifteen years of Heartdancers led to this room. Fifteen years of refusing to be filed under only “multicultural festival” or squeezed to the margins of the stage. Sunday, we opened the doors for free, and this country’s arts and culture stood exactly where they belong.

To our artists and panelists, you are some of the finest this country has. To our team, AV crew, volunteers and stallholders, you built this with your hands and your hearts. And to everyone who came and felt, thank you for showing us that when you build with truth, people show up.

Thank you to City of Sydney , Sound NSW and Create NSW for believing in this before it existed. Thank you to Sydney Fringe Yalgali program for holding the room.

📸 Raúl Ortiz de Lejarazu Machin | Photographer gracias 🔥

We did this with more love than resources, and it still stood taller than either.

With gratitude and fire in our hearts. 🔥

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17/09/2026

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17/09/2026

🎉 School Holidays Fun Alert! 🥁✨

We're proud to support Heartdancers as they launch The Art of Us, a brand-new community arts program celebrating culture, creativity and connection on the Central Coast.

Join the FREE opening celebration on Monday 28th September, 2pm at The Entrance Community Centre Complex, part of the NEIGHBOURHOOD program for Welcoming Week.

Bring the family and dive into a day of live music, dance, drumming and hands-on art from cultures around the globe.

✨ ON THE LINEUP
🔥 Smoking Ceremony by Girri Girra
🎤 Live music by Magdalena Mira
💃 Interactive Indian Dance with Jeetbeats
🥁 Brazilian Drum & Dance Jamming with Marina da Silva & Gabzak
🎨 Collaborative Community Artwork with Gambirra Illume
🎥 Video Art Installation by Gabzak
🌭 Free BBQ

📍 The Entrance Community Centre Complex
🕑 2pm
🎟️ 100% FREE, all ages welcome
✅ RSVP essential: events.humanitix.com/the-art-of-us-program-opening-day

Proudly supported by Central Coast Council, with the program rolling out across The Benevolent Society, Uniting and TASK Kids at The Entrance, Ourimbah and Budgewoi PS.

Come move, create and celebrate what makes our community so special. 🌏🥁

Looking for an afternoon of fun during the school
Holidays? Wanting to connect in community and enjoy a free activity?
Please join us for an afternoon of music, art, food, sensory activities and much more! Scan the QR code on the flyer to register… I can’t wait to see everyone come out and support this amazing event

http://events.humanitix.com/the-art-of-us-program-opening-day

16/09/2026

🎉 School Holidays Are Calling — Come Dance, Drum & Discover Your Community! 🥁✨

The rhythm is rising. The colours are gathering. The story of Us is about to begin.

Heartdancers invites you to step into something new: The Art of Us, a community arts program born from connection, creativity and culture. Join us Monday 28th September for a FREE opening celebration at The Entrance Community Centre Complex, part of the NEIGHBOURHOOD program for Welcoming Week.

Bring the whole family. Bring your curiosity. Come move to rhythms from every corner of the globe, and help paint the first strokes of a story we’re building together.

✨ WHAT’S ON THE LINEUP

🔥 A Smoking Ceremony by Girri Girra , to open with fire and spirit
🎤 Live music by Magdalena Mira
💃 Interactive Indian Dance with Paramjit Singh
🥁 Brazilian Drum & Dance Jamming with Marina Da Silva & Gabzak
🎨 Collaborative Community Artwork with Gambirra Illume
🎥 A striking Video Art Installation by Gabzak
🫟🖌️ Face painting by Be Happy | Face painting

🌭 Free BBQ, because celebration tastes better shared

📍 THE QUICK DETAILS
🎟️ Cost: 100% FREE — but RSVP is essential, so save your spot! https://events.humanitix.com/the-art-of-us-program-opening-day

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Who: Everyone. Every age. Every story welcome.
📍 Where: The Entrance Community Centre Complex

👉 RSVP now: events.humanitix.com/the-art-of-us-program-opening-day

Come move. Come create. Come celebrate the culture, creativity and connection that make this community shine.

Proudly supported by Central Coast Council . This is just the beginning — The Art of Us will keep growing across The Benevolent Society, Uniting, and TASK Kids in The Entrance, Ourimbah and Budgewoi PS.

Let’s build this together. 🌏🥁

13/09/2026

When community gets together! See what happens? Chika

13/09/2026

🖌️✨ Where every stroke tells a story.

A moment of Japanese tradition, patience and artistry — beautifully brought to life by Tomoco through the art of calligraphy.

More than words on paper, it’s a celebration of culture, creativity and connection. 🇯🇵❤️

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13/09/2026

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Thanks to our fantastic Dadaz Eiseahp for enjoying and celebrating culture with us!

07/04/2026

🎨🥁✨ Introducing: The Art of Us ✨🥁🎨

We are SO excited to launch The Art of Us – Culture, Connection & Wellbeing on the Central Coast! 🌏💛

This is more than a program — it’s a movement. A community-led arts and wellbeing initiative that brings people together through dance, drumming, storytelling, visual arts, and so much more — celebrating our diversity and building belonging for ALL.

We’re kicking things off in partnership with our wonderful friends at 🤝, bringing the magic to their playgroups and connecting with the incredible CALD families in our community.

Our first event is THIS Thursday! 🗓️ 📍 Blue Haven Public School – 37 Colorado Drive, Blue Haven 🕙 10am – 1pm | FREE entry 🎭 Featuring , .da.silva_ & .music

Here’s what’s in store 👇 🎉 10:00am – Doors open + DJ Set 🤡 10:30am – Clowning with Alicia Gonzalez 💃 11:15am – Dance workshop with Marina Da Silva 🥁 12:15pm – Drumming, Sax & Spin with Brazilian percussion + audience participation!

This is a free, all-ages, all-cultures celebration — bring the kids, bring the grandparents, bring everyone! 🌈👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

The Art of Us is for First Nations families, CALD communities, children, seniors, people with disability, and anyone seeking joy and connection through the arts. You belong here. 💜

💙 This program is made possible thanks to through its Community Development Grant Program — investing in the people, cultures, and communities that make the Central Coast such a special place to call home. We are deeply grateful for their support! 🙏

See you there! 🎶