Creation Story

UMI Arts is committed to bringing people together, sharing stories, respecting culture and doing things proper way.

Our annual program of events and activities is about YOU and ME strengthening Indigenous cultural practices in Far North Queensland.

UMI Arts programs operate in Cairns and in-community and are about capacity building and developing artists and performers as both professional practitioners and active participants in community cultural development and revitalisation.  UMI Arts programs all aim to engage, motivate, occupy and inspire and to promote a sense of relevance, confidence and interest through learning, doing and performing. 





Image credits: Marilyn Kepple mounting her prints (left), Baiwa Dance Company at Big Talk One Fire 2008 (middle), Seith Fourmile doing Welcome to Country at UMI Arts Indigenous Markets (right).