The dance component at this festival is really strong and here at Dancestry, the festival's dance circle you're not just transported to other worlds... but to another time.

Tania Nugent: At The Dreaming there are indigenous cultures or First Nations people from across the globe, from Mexico, Africa, Pacifica.

Rhoda Roberts: Often First Nations peoples, you only ever see what's labelled the problems, and this gives people the opportunity to see how we express ourselves, how much fun it is but how we all sing and dance and have rituals.

Letila Mitchell, Pacific Arts Alliance: We're here at The Dreaming Festival with the Pacifika Gallery. This is our third year that we've been at The Dreaming and basically the Pacifica Gallery is a space to bring our Pacific artists away to share and interact with the community that's here, so we have 36 artists with us from right around the Pacific, from Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Solomons.

We have two workshops every day, a tapa workshop in the mornings and in the afternoons we also have our flower weaving workshops. It's always full the gallery because of the interaction with the artists.

Abraham Lang, artist: Bula. My Name is Abraham Lang.

Woman festival goer: I met Abraham yesterday. He's from Fiji and they're all amazing artists.

Letila Mitchell: In the Pacific the arts, you know even though it's so rich, there isn't much space for artistic development. It's still not recognised as a viable career, so coming into a
space like this just gives that validation to artists that there is career pathways and they can see people here getting professional fees.

Freg Oge, artist: When I go back to Solomon Islands, so that I can tell the other artists so that we can protect our art, yeah, make our art powerful.

Tania Nugent: Sharing cultural knowledge is at the very heart of this festival - performers, artists, craftspeople and speakers and the thousands and thousands of people who come here every year to experience culture, crossing over, joining hands. Over four days it becomes seamless, you feel the sense of unity.

Rhoda Roberts: It really is for some the very first time they've had an experience with First Nations peoples. Seeing a lot of children here is really important. These kids aren't seeing
colour, they're just seeing kinship. They're seeing stories and fun and dance and they're going to grow up with a very different perception to an earlier generation.

Female festival goer: Oh, it's great. It's so amazing. I want to come next year.

Young boy: I like the music.

Male festival goer: This is the second time. We like very much two years ago so we decide to come her nearly every year.

Male festival goer: This is the third or fourth time that I've been here. And it's because this is a festival that celebrates diversity. People are now feeling extremely comfortable and
wishing and willing to learn. There's people personally have sat and cried about stories - it's becoming really really beautiful and it's going to keep on going because Australia is that type of country.

Male festival goer: It's just been an absolute buzz.

Male festival goer: Good thing to reflect on the past and the present and to look forward to a brighter future.

Female festival goer: It's all about free expression it's all about making friends.