Garma Festival

Where: Gulkula, North East Arnhem Land, NT
When: 10am Tuesday 12 August

The 10th Garma Festival – Australia's leading cultural exchange event – will be held from 8-12 August 2008 at Gulkula, North East Arnhem Land NT.

Garma is an intimate, spectacular celebration of cultural traditions and practices – dance, song, music, and art (including presentations, collaborations, sales) – and the venue for a leading Key Forum on Indigenous issues – in 2008, Indigenous Knowledge. Sharing of knowledge and real cultural interaction occurs amidst a unique line-up of entertainment. It is indeed a privilege to experience Garma.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.

Recently Garma was again – for the second year running – awarded the Northern Territory Government Brolga Award for the best Major Event. This followed the winning of the prestigious Skal International Ecotourism Award (Education program – Media category) and the Foundation being runner-up in the inaugural Gnunkai National Indigenous Tourism Award in 2005.

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