The Koorie Night Market (KNM) is an Aboriginal festival celebrating and promoting Koorie arts, culture and identity. Consisting of well known Koorie musicians and a range of arts, crafts and services offered by in excess of 40 Koorie artisan-stallholders at each market, the Koorie Night Market has an electric atmosphere and is a bridge between cultures.

Organised by Koorie Night Market Inc the markets are a meeting place, community builder, cultural showcase and business incubator. They provide the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community with an opportunity promote their talents and their cultures, and to build sustainable relationships. Attended by in excess of 2,500 people from the Koorie and mainstream communities, the Koorie Night Market provides an evocative cross-cultural experience within and between these communities.

The markets are overseen by KNM Inc, a newly formed, majority Indigenous controlled organisation. Board members include representatives from partner organisations, stallholders and the Koorie community.

Koorie Night Market Vision

We have a vision of a vibrant, viable and innovative Koorie Night Market enterprise that creates opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to promote their culture now and into the future.

In our vision the Koorie Night Market is a cultural showcase, meeting place, community builder and business incubator, giving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people access to the resources they need, the space to promote their culture and the opportunity to achieve their potential.

In our vision, the Koorie Night Market will bring peoples of all nations together to build socially-inclusive communities where diversity and difference are embraced and where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, heritage, sacred and significant sites are acknowledged, respected and protected.

Our vision is guided by principles of collaboration, respect and equity.

Statement of Puposes

The principal purposes of Koorie Night Market Inc are to function solely as a charitable non-profit corporation that operates for the public benefit to promote and advance throughout Victoria Indigenous visual arts, crafts, design and movable cultural heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and exclusively for those purposes:

• To support, nurture and promote the Koorie Night Market as a space to celebrate and promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, culture, identity and business
• To value, respect and raise awareness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander diverse cultures and heritage
• To ensure the Koorie Night Market creates opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to improve their quality of life
• To ensure the Koorie Night Market is an incubator for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business
• To cultivate and strengthen the Koorie Night Market as a viable, valuable and sustainable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and commercial enterprise
• To govern the Koorie Night Market in a cooperative, transparent and accountable manner
• To foster and promote partnerships for sustainable development of the Koorie Night Market