FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
ELECTRIC FIELDS
Supported by the Tiwi Island SistaGirls
Venue: The Playhouse
Date & Time: Sat 29 May 8-9.15pm
Full Price: $45
Concession: $30
Multi-award winning Electric Fields create a striking and haunting merging of living traditional culture with electronic music, bringing moments of breathtaking beauty and power to the stage.
Featuring the rare and beautiful voice of Zaachariaha Fielding - who often sings in his traditional languages of the Anangu people - and the brilliance of producer Michael Ross - Electric Fields music ranges from soulful pop, to epic-scale electronic works, through to intensely intimate story-songs.
Don’t miss their powerful live show, that has won them a legion of fans across the globe.
FREE EVENTS
LUGLUG & DAMARA-GIRRI |
Official Gathering & Welcome
Venue: Raft
Date & Time: Sat 29 May 7-7.30pm
FREE
Join local Larrakia community members, Gary Lang’s NT Dance Company and Festival Creative Directors Ben Graetz and Nina Fitzgerald as they officially open the 2021 Garrmalang Festival with a traditional smoking ceremony.
NUMANGGWA-GUM - MAANMA
GWIYARLWA LIDJI | Blak Talk
- Future Healing: Listening, Language and Land Rights
Venue: Studio Theatre
Date & Time: Sat 29 May
12noon - 1pm
FREE - Registrations required
The Garrmalang Blak Talk panel series tackles important issues affecting our First Nations community not only here in the Northern Territory, but throughout Australia
GARRMALANG GWARNDA
DAMANGGWA | Garrmalang Festival Club
Venue: Studio Theatre
Date & Time: Sat 29 May 9pm-1am
Full Price: $15
Concession: $10
This is an 18+ event.
Celebrate the opening night of Garrmalang 2021 at the Festival Club. Join host, leggy bush-girl Constantina Bush, as she takes you on a wild night of laughter, shake-a-leg and bam bam that only NT mob know how to! Featuring some of Darwin and the Territory’s deadliest DJs, dancers and divas, this is one event on the Festival calendar you don’t want to miss! Everyone welcome!
GULIGI NUMANGGWA | Big Blak Dot Comedy Spectacular
Venue: Studio Theatre
Date & Time: Sun 30 May 6.30-8pm
Full Price: $25
Concession: $20
Join the very best First Nations stand-up comedians this side of the Berrimah Line for our Garrmalang Festival closing night spectacular! Hosted by Constantina Bush, Big Blak Dot Comedy Spectacular brings together comedians from the Deadly Darwin collective plus special guests. Featuring Larrakia funny mob Richie Fejo, Aunty June Mills plus many more. Get set to B.O.L (bust out loud) for this Garrmalang-produced deadly show!
- offering them a platform to share their truths and the issues facing them. Future Healing will explore the voices of our young leaders, and how they see contemporary First Nations culture being shaped, perceived and strengthened through healing practices such as language revitalisation, Indigenous ranger programs and the increased representation of First Nations people in the STEM fields.
Moderated by Nina Fitzgerald.
NUMANGGWA-GUM – TREATY
NOW | Blak Talk - Treaty Now
Venue: Studio Theatre
Date & Time: Sat 29 May 2-3pm FREE - Registrations required
The second Blak Talk panel discussion explores the consultation process being carried out by the Northern Territory Treaty Commission across the Northern Territory, to inform the development of a framework for future treaty negotiations between First Nations communities and the Northern Territory Government.
Moderated by Nina Fitzgerald.
THROUGH DARANIGI DAMARA | Through Our Eyes
Venue: The Gallery
Date & Time: Sat 29 May 9am-2pm & Sun 30 May 5.30-6.30pm FREE
Curated by Nina Fitzgerald, this photographic exhibition showcases First Nations photographers and their work, capturing the Northern Territory through the eyes of the first peoples of this country.
DARRIBA NARRI
MINANGGURRGWA
YABARRAG | Elders
Morning Tea
Venue: The Balcony Bar
Date & Time: Sat 29 May 9.30-11am
FREE - Registrations required Come along, sit together and celebrate our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders in this special event. Elders Morning Tea brings our community together to honour those who have passed on their knowledge, paved the way and continue to inspire us all. Tea, coffee and morning tea provided.
DARRANIGI
GULWA | Our Songs
Venue: Forecourt
See yourcentre.com.au for times
FREE
Kick back on the forecourt with a drink and something to eat as we showcase some of Darwin’s finest First Nations musicians.
NUMANGGWA YILI RRIYUNG
(Black Meeting Place) | House of Darwin x Garrmalang Pop-Up
Venue: Forecourt
Date & Time: Sat 29 May 9am-2pm, 6pm-9pm
FREE
House of Darwin is a 100% First Nations owned social enterprise clothing company, who reinvest their profits back into social programs in remote First Nations communities. They exist to inspire, educate and cultivate change within the two worlds of Australia, and use creativity to tell stories of Indigenous Australia and the Northern Territory. Curated by House of Darwin, this Pop-Up Store will bring together contemporary fashion, art and creativity.
