Portland’s Nyamat Yarkeen Karween, Upwelling Festival and Three Bays Running Festival

Friday 1st of November 2024 - Sunday 3rd of November 2024

The Portland's Nyamat Yarkeen Karween, Upwelling Festival and Three Bays Running Festival is a Community led Festival that has been running since 2010... read more.

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Lee Breakwater Road, Portland, VIC, 3305
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Upcoming Dates

Sun Nov 3rd

About

The Portland’s Nyamat Yarkeen Karween, Upwelling Festival and Three Bays Running Festival is a Community led Festival that has been running since 2010. Celebrating the Ocean and honouring the Bonney Upwelling, which is a natural phenomenon that occurs in only a few places in the world. Nutrient rich cold waters are pushed up to the Victorian coast, creating a feeding frenzy that lasts up to seven months.

The community hold a parade, a call to the ocean, a First Nations Dance program that honours the Koontapool, the Southern Right Whales. There is a musical line up, markets, art walks and workshops, science talks, wandering acrobats, facepainting, and food stalls.

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  • Carpark
  • Family Friendly
  • Parents Room
  • Public Toilet

Accessibility

  • Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
  • Caters for people who are blind or have vision loss.
  • Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
  • Caters for people who use a wheelchair.

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Great Ocean Road Regional Tourism acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the Great Ocean Road region the Wadawurrung, Eastern Maar & Gunditjmara. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We recognise and respect their unique cultural heritage and the connection to their traditional lands. We commit to building genuine and lasting partnerships that recognise, embrace and support the spirit of reconciliation, working towards self-determination, equity of outcomes and an equal voice for Australia’s first people.