At Railhouse Blues, we believe in creating a safe, open, and respectful environment. We want to acknowledge the history and origins of this wonderful dance, the land are able to dance it on, and the contributions of the community that help us hold events like this.
Railhouse Blues strives to contextualise and honour the rich Black history of Blues dance. We do this through talks on music and history within our workshops. We also aim to have further information available to participants, and encourage engagement with this. If there's something you think we could be doing better, let us know.
We are proud and grateful to be gathering and sharing knowledge and dance on Indigenous Lands. Thankyou to our friends at Hearken the Blues for putting this information together in consultation with Pejar LALC:
The Goulburn region was known as a meeting place. This means that Goulburn wasn’t inhabited by just one group of people, but it had many. These groups are:
GUNDUNGURRA
MULWAREE
WOLLONDILLY
WIRADJURI
NGUNAWAL
DHARROOK
THARWAL
TARLO
LACHLAN
PAJONG
PARRAMARRAGOO
COOKMAL
BURRA BURRA
At Railhouse Blues, we strive to make the event open and accessible to as many people as possible. In building a community, we want to ensure that there is a standard of behaviour - that respect is at the forefront of everything we do. We have a Code of Conduct that we hope will help to facilitate a strong and safe community.