Every two years in mid-June almost all of the 17 Aboriginal communities in the Cape York Peninsula of Far North Queensland gather on a sacred dance ground - a bora ring - located on Western Yalanji country. 

The primary purpose of the festival is for the different First Nations to duke it out in a three day dance competition, at the end of which one community will take home the prized shield. This year the shield was won by the dancers from Lockhart River.