12th annual Garma Festival

The 12th Garma Festival – Australia's leading cultural exchange event – will be held from 6-10 August 2010 at Gulkula, North East Arnhem Land, NT.

Garma is a nationally significant, intimate, spectacular celebration of cultural traditions and practices – dance, song, music, and art (including presentations, collaborations, sales) – and the annual venue for a major Key Forum on Indigenous issues.

As well as the Key Forum and integrated academic presentations on language and culture, Key Forum participants also have the opportunity to watch the daily bunggul and music performances, enjoy Garma art exhibitions and projects, and participate in evening and night activities.

Garma is a unique combination of education, entertainment and real cultural interaction, exchange and immersion. It is indeed a privilege to experience Garma, and there are several categories of registration available for visitors.

Furthermore, all attendance fees and other revenues received for Garma go to the operation of the cultural and economic programs – which have real social, cultural and economic outcomes – of the Yothu Yindi Foundation, a not-for-profit Aboriginal organisation with charitable status and with the three primary aims of sharing knowledge and culture; creating economic opportunities for Yolngu; and nurturing, celebrating and presenting cultural traditions and practices.

Garma has twice in recent years been awarded the Northern Territory Government Brolga Award for the best Major Event. It has also won the prestigious Skal International Ecotourism Award (Education program – Media category) and the Yothu Yindi Foundation was runner-up in the inaugural Gnunkai National Indigenous Tourism Award in 2005.

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