Banquets
The Future Series presents The Bush Banquet with Mindy Woods
Sit at the long table.
Share the plate. Slow down.
We’re kicking off the festival the way we know best: fire, a shared meal, and a table full of inspiring humans. Chef Mindy Woods of Karkalla — restaurateur and proud Bundjalung woman — leads a long table dinner built around native ingredients, Country and culture, told through food.
Aunty Delta opens the evening with a Welcome to Country, dancer Mitch King performs, and Benja Roberts and the DINGO Choir bring it home in song, before we sit together for storytelling through food.
No stage. No rush.
Just Bundjalung stories, shared plates, and a long table under the trees.
Venue
The Lumber Yard, 8 Station Street, Bangalow NSW
Friday 9th October
5.00pm — Guests arrive
5.45pm — Aunty Delta’s Welcome to Country, dance and choir performance
6.30pm — Seated. Mindy Woods in conversation with Chris Tyas. Ella speaks on The Returning
7.00pm — Dinner service begins
9.00pm — Dinner wraps, stay for drinks or roam into DINGO’s wider Friday program
Gagabalingu — Goanna season, a time of abundance returning
Country is warming after Waringu and Yarrgehmbu. Flowers are opening, insects and pollinators are becoming active, and animals are moving and feeding. The ocean is moving too, with whales making their journey south.
Gagabalingu is a time when Country visibly awakens — a season of movement, renewal and abundance returning. Our menu draws from that seasonal energy and celebrates our living relationship with Country.
Menu
Main
Music by Mohliaa and The Minkeys, woven through the DINGO precinct.
Tickets
Banquet — $160pp
100% of net proceeds to The Returning.
Banquet + VIP DINGO pass — $400
Banquet plus VIP DINGO pass for Friday and Saturday Festival + VIP area access.
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Sit on the ground. Eat with your hands. Get loud.
Two and a half thousand years ago, the Greeks worked out that the best nights happen on the floor — a shared feast, wine that never stops moving, and a room that gets louder as the night gets later.
The Salty Mangrove are stealing this experience — for one night at DINGO Fest, David Moyle is crafting a banquet built to be torn apart and passed around, DJs and live music keep the energy climbing, and a hundred of you are sat cushion-to-cushion, stranger to stranger, on the ground.
No head table. No quiet corners.
Just Salty Mangrove vibes.
Venue
Moller Pavilion, Bangalow Showgrounds
Saturday 10th October
6pm–8pm — DINGO banquet @ $100 head
Open to festival ticket holders after 8pm if space
Offering
+ TSM Bar
Soundtrack by
Dingo Balearico
Good Morning Tapes
Edd Fisher
Tickets
Banquet — $100 head
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