Garma Festival 5 days

Dates: 7 – 11 August, 2009

Cost: Enquiries on Garma Website

Set in a stringybark forest with views to the Gulf of Carpentaria, the annual Garma Festival is Australia’s leading cultural event and the largest and most spectacular celebration of Aboriginal cultural traditions and practices of dance, song, music, and art.

A highly sought after five-day Indigenous Cultural Tourism program is presented as part of the Garma Festival, delivering superb cultural experiences and interaction, with separate programs tailored for men and women.

Activities include:

• a cultural induction session
• the spectacular and awe-inspiring nightly bunggul (dance ceremony)
  
• presentations on language, flora and fauna
  
•  interpretation of dance and song
  
• site expeditions and interpretive walks
  
• spear making and spear throwing for hunting
  
• women’s cultural practices including field trips for collecting bush medicine, bush tucker, and pandanus leaves and bush dyes for weaving
  
•  the opportunity to view and purchase art works from award-winning and internationally acclaimed visual artists of the region.

The Garma Festival provides an insightful and genuine cultural immersion experience – Yolngu culture on Yolngu terms on Yolngu land.
In order to retain the essence and ambience of the program, numbers for the Cultural Tourism Program are strictly limited.