2022 Darwin Festival Hospitality Brochure

EXCLUSIVE FESTIVAL HOSPITALITY Treat your guests to a memorable Darwin Festival experience

SIT BACK, RELAX AND ENJOY THE SHOW Darwin Festival presents the perfect opportunity to excite and entertain your business clients, guests or employees and give them an experience to remember.

Darwin Festival hospitality functions offer a range of event opportunities including: • Business to business networking • Staff reward and recognition • Relationship building • Informal sociable settings

LIMITED BOOKINGS AVAILABLE, ENQUIRE NOW! Lisa Parris Development Coordinator T 08 8943 4200 E lisa.parris@darwinfestival.org.au

Our packages include: • Personalised ticketing assistance

CATERING PROUDLY SUPPLIED BY

• Reserved table with premium seating • Table service • Premium food and beverage package options • Dedicated Darwin Festival host

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VENUE

INPEX SUNSET STAGE INPEX Sunset Stage in Festival Park is Darwin Festival’s signature outdoor stage that has the unique ability to be both intimate enough for hushed solo performances and epic enough for showstopping cabaret artists and disco-thumping DJs! Experience the best comedy, cabaret and contemporary music on our main stage. Take advantage of reserved premium seating with table service and get treated to a magical hot August night under the stars.

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Exclusive Hospitality:

Darwin Festival offers a selection of gourmet food and beverage packages to complete your Festival hospitality experience.

Exclusive Hospitality: Package 1 – Festival Bliss Package 2 – Festival Feast Additional – Antipasto Box & Sweets Box (All packages minimum 6+ guests, see page 4 for package details)

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EXCLUSIVE

HOSPITALITY PACKAGES FESTIVAL BLISS

FESTIVAL FEAST

$62 PER GUEST exc. GST

$74 PER GUEST exc. GST

Minimum 6 guests Includes one hour House Beverage Package 2 canapés per person

Minimum 6 guests Includes one hour House Beverage Package 3 canapés per person

• Garlic toast and sundried tomato olive & feta V

• Garlic toast and sundried tomato olive & feta V

• Smoked salmon tart with crème fraiche dill & cavier

• Smoked salmon tart with crème fraiche dill & cavier

2 substantial canapés per person

• Focaccia with anchovy mozzarella & lemon

• Milk bun with mortadella & shaved parmesan

• Tarragon chicken pillow sandwich 3 substantial canapés per person

• Spiced rice with slow-cooked lamb, labne & currents GF

• Milk bun with mortadella & shaved parmesan • Spiced rice with slow-cooked lamb, labne & currents GF • Profiterole with herby chicken

CHOICE TO ADD ON TO YOUR PACKAGE V & GF options available on request

ANTIPASTO BOX $68 exc. GST

SWEETS BOX $30 exc. GST

Serves 4 to 6

Serves 4

Enjoy Maggie Beer triple brie, manchego, quince paste, marinated olives, sopressa and cacciatore, house labne and hummus with seasonal fruit and water crackers.

• Mini lemon curd tart w raspberry • Chocolate brownie GF

Once you have decided on your preferred package, it’s time to select one of the exciting INPEX Sunset Stage shows!

GF gluten free; V vegetarian

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BEVERAGE PACKAGES HOUSE COMPLIMENTARY IN FESTIVAL BLISS AND FESTIVAL FEAST PACKAGES A HOUSE SELECTION OF:

• Seppelt Fleur De Lys Sparkling NV • 821 South Sauvignon Blanc • Squealing Pig Pinot Noir Rosé • Seppelt The Drives • Coopers Pale Ale • Coopers Mild Ale

PREMIUM ADDITIONAL $10 PER PERSON TO INCLUDE PREMIUM WINES IN YOUR PACKAGE A PREMIUM SELECTION OF:

• Seppelt Fleur de Lys Sparkling NV • 821 Sauvignon Blanc • T’Gallant Pinot Grigio • Fickle Mistress Pinot Noir • Flowerpot Organic Red Bend • Coopers Pale Ale • Coopers Mild Ale • One Mile Cider

CELEBRATING? ADD A FEW BOTTLES OF CHAMPAGNE

• MUMM Cordon Rouge Champagne $85 per bottle

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THE LEGEND OF QUEEN KONG The Legend of Queen Kong is a fully accessible, queer, sci-fi extravaganza of meteoric proportions. Equal parts rock concert and high-concept cabaret of interstellar discovery, with accessibility baked into its core, this is one hilarious, highly sensory, pop cultural romp through the queer cosmos.

CABARET Fri 5 & Sat 6 Aug

7pm

Duration

1hr 10mins

Full

$40

EMMA DONOVAN & THE PUTBACKS

Australia’s Queen of Soul Emma Donovan and Melbourne rhythm combo The Putbacks are bringing the groove to our opening night of music in Festival Park. Emma’s songwriting is optimistic, impassioned and bruisingly honest.

The Putbacks are stone cold pros with a sound that is fluid and raw. Together this powerhouse group have won fans all over the world.

MUSIC Fri 5 Aug

9pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$42

DANE SIMPSON DIDGERIDOOZY Join Dane Simpson, star of the hit show Aborigi-LOL, for a night of gut-bustingly funny stories, fun facts and big laughs. A masterful storyteller with an infectiously upbeat presence, Wagga Wagga’s favourite son promises an hour of cracking tales that will have you in stitches. Discover the what, why and how of the didgeridoo and have a hell of a lot of fun along the way!

COMEDY Tue 9 Aug

7pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$38

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WILLIAM BARTON & VÉRONIQUE SERRET

HEARTLAND

Didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton and powerhouse violinist Véronique Serret blend traditional songlines and modern storytelling in an exquisite collaboration that will leave you reinvigorated and uplifted.

Inspired by the Australian landscape and the power of connection to place, Heartland is a unique soundworld that blends the poetry of William’s mother with music.

ARLO PARKS

MUSIC

MUSIC United Kingdom

Grammy-nominated London soulstress Arlo Parks kicks off her first ever Australian tour in Darwin. Her inimitable style features groovealong tunes that effortlessly blend sweet, ruminative indie pop and neo-soul with intricate poetic songwriting, all performed with her angelic voice.

Sun 7 Aug

7pm

Sun 7 Aug

9pm

Duration

1hr

Duration

1hr

Full

$40

Full

$42

DILRUK JAYASINHA DIL’ICIOUS Dilruk Jayasinha has tasted the full spectrum of reality TV cuisine – from antelope meat in the I’m a Celebrity jungle to fine dining cooking in the Celebrity MasterChef kitchen. Now he’s cooked up a brand-new hour of delicious stand up.

COMEDY Tue 9 & Wed 10 Aug

9pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$40

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STEVEN OLIVER BIGGER AND BLACKER Get ready for a bit of a rap, a bit of a sing, a bit of a tap and a lot of shaking his ring as Faboriginal host Steven Oliver brings a “tour de force” (Sydney Morning Herald) comedy cabaret that’s guaranteed to get you laughing, thinking and shimmying in your seat.

CABARET // COMEDY Wed 10 Aug

7pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$40

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TELENOVA Listening to Telenova’s enigmatic electro-indiepop is like watching a movie with the picture turned off. The trio describe their sound as “cinema for your ears”, and building glorious cinematic worlds is what they do best.

MUSIC Thu 11 Aug

9pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$42

CARLA LIPPIS MONDO PSYCHO With a sound that oscillates between torch songs inspired by Angelo Badalamenti and dystopian avant-rock reminiscent of The Birthday Party, Carla Lippis’ rich and melancholic voice of has evoked a cathartic reaction in audiences everywhere – from London’s West End to supporting Mötley Crüe. Hear one of Australia’s best-kept secrets, backed by a formidable fivepiece band for this Festival performance.

MUSIC Thu 11 Aug

7pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$40

ZOË COOMBS MARR THE OPENER We regret to inform you Dave is back. The Opener is a long-awaited kaleidoscopic mobius strip of pants-wetting gags and the latest fiasco from comedy mastermind Zoë Coombs Marr. A lesbian comedian plays a hack male comedian who’s just come out of a coma in this acid-fueled balm for our times.

COMEDY Sun 14 Aug

7pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$38

ALEX THE ASTRONAUT An unforgettably original lyricist, Alex the Astronaut creates music that cycles through a series of radiantly detailed slices of life. Catch Alex and her band on the INPEX Sunset Stage as they tour the country with her latest album.

MUSIC Sat 13 Aug

9pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$42

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JAGUAR JONZE

FINUCANE & SMITH’S

TRAVELLING DANCE HALL From the creators of the world’s most awarded provocative cabaret and Australia’s longest tour of variety since the Gold Rush, comes the unmissable celebration of live art and burlesque that is Finucane & Smith’s Travelling Dance Hall!

Taiwanese-Australian multimedia artist Jaguar Jonze (Deena Lynch) brings her iconic style and dynamic presence and her latest album, Bunny Mode, to the tropics with an electrifying live show. Enigmatic yet vulnerable, Jaguar Jonze transforms the toughest of personal trials into dark, inventive music delivered with defiant ferocity through smoky vocals.

MUSIC Fri 12 Aug

9pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$42

CABARET Fri 12 & Sat 13 Aug

7pm

Duration

1hr 10mins

Full

$38

MY SUNBURNT SOUNDTRACK Alice Springs songwriter and producer Resin Moon (aka Dave Crowe) brings together a group of the NT’s finest musicians to explore what it means to be a Territorian. Hear the unique landscapes of the NT come alive with shimmering synths, ambient guitars and deep beats in a love song to the place we call home.

MUSIC Northern Territory Sun 14 Aug

8.45pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$38

NATH VALVO BACK IN THE HABIT Festival favourite and complete show off Nath Valvo arrives in Darwin with a brand-new show that is all killer, no filler. Nath’s hilariously physical, high-energy comedy is winning crowds across the globe. Come witness this ex high school drama captain in full flight.

COMEDY

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Tue 16 Aug

7pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$38

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TRIPOD Three-man guitar-based singing jokester group Tripod have delighted audiences with their loosely choreographed, three-part harmony and expertly timed comedy stylings for 25 years. Be there when the band that made it okay to sing funny songs un-badly bangs out a bunch of new stuff – plus whatever favourites take their fancy on the night.

CABARET // COMEDY Wed 17 & Thu 18 Aug

7pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$42

CONFIDENCE MAN

ELSY WAMEYO

A portable party that’s levelled dance floors and flattened festival crowds as it’s rolled out across the world, a Confidence Man performance is designed to make you dance and lose your cool.

With their outlandish costumes, choreographed routines and bossy lyrics, this show promises to be OTT in all the right ways.

Tipped to be the next big thing in Australian music, Elsy Wameyo’s combination of afrobeats, African harmonies and soul grooves with a booming bass line and her rapid-fire wordplay over the top is absolutely addictive. Get set for a trailblazing mix of RnB, gospel and traditional sounds that completely shatters the mould.

MUSIC Fri 19 Aug

9pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$42

MUSIC Thu 18 Aug

9pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$42

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YUMMY ICONIC Award magnets YUMMY are back in Darwin for a fabulously sexy non-stop party! With a wild new show that celebrates and subverts cultural icons, legends and superstars, YUMMY ICONIC is drag variety at its very best.

Expect a powerful ensemble, side-splitting comedy and out-of-this-world costumes.

CABARET Fri 19 – Sun 21 Aug

7pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$40

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SUNSHINE AND DISCO FAITH CHOIR Drape yourself in something sparkly and ascend to disco heaven for a night as Sunshine and Disco Faith Choir unite Melbourne DJ Sunshine’s signature house and techno sound with uplifting soul and gospel vocals, sung by a live choir dedicated to making the dancefloor rejoice.

We close our 2022 Festival with the RnB and future soul sounds of a musical force of nature. Ngaiire has forged a career that, while teasing at the mainstream, effortlessly crosses genre and art form, with a live show that fuses art, fashion and music. Expect tight beats, outrageous costuming, big pop sounds and, of course, Ngaiire’s stellar vocal force at this magical night of music under the stars..

MUSIC Sun 21 Aug

8.45pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$38

MUSIC Sat 20 Aug

9pm

Duration

1hr

Full

$42

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Let us create a tailored event to wow your guests.

Please contact Lisa Parris for all enquiries: T 08 8943 4200 E lisa.parris@darwinfestival.org.au