Museums • History • First Nations

Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS NO WORLD, NO SUN, NO MOON, NOT EVEN LIGHT - JUST DARKNESS…

ONLY AN EGG, AN EGG FROM BUNDARRA, THE CASSOWARY BIRD. AND FROM THAT EGG - THE WHOLE WORLD WAS BORN!

Client

Location

Completed

Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park

Cairns, Australia

2015

The Project

Telling ancient stories using modern technology and live performance – Story Inc’s project in North Queensland, opened in May 2015 by the Governor-General of Australia, is one of the most exciting we’ve undertaken…

Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park is one of Australia’s longest established indigenous tourism businesses, giving visitors to North Queensland an insight into the culture of the local Djabugay people since the 1980s. Between 2013 and 2015 the park underwent a complete upgrade.
Story Inc and our detailed design partner Studio Cassells were engaged to provide a new central performance attraction as well as the interpretive design of many elements of the revitalized buildings and grounds.
We re-wrote the original performance script to work in a 21st century mapped-projection animated environment, transporting the audience into the extraordinary mythical world of the Djabugay people.