Desert Harmony Arts & Cultural Festival 2010
Anyingninyi Manu
August 28 - September 5
Tennant Creek
BRA has been coordinating the Desert Harmony Festival since 2008, which has allowed the event to slowly evolve to include increased arts engagement with the whole community. Last year the focus was to increase youth involvement and engagement in the festival and 2010 continues in the same vein.
This year BRA will have a Youth Performance Arts Program in place to feed directly into the festival from August 28 until September 5.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- The Birds of Tennant Creek – Youth Performance
- Barkly Artists Installation Project bringing the main street alive with temporary public art
- DanceSite - Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring are presenting their '2010 DanceSite' event, a showcase of Central Australian Indigenous Traditional Dance
- Indigenous Publishing House IAD Press launching an anthology of work by Indigenous NT writers
- Sunday Festival Showcase highlights talent from the Barkly region including local bands, music, song, circus and fire.
Desert Harmony Arts and Cultural Festival 2009
Anyingninyi Manu
August 28-30
Tennant Creek
This year the townsfolk of Tennant Creek and visitors celebrated the Desert Harmony Festival's 20th anniversary with an impressive line-up that showcased local artistic talent and ingenuity as well as giving the community the opportunity to benefit from the skills and experiences of visiting musos and artists.
Adelaide-based puppeteers kneeHIGH worked in the community in the month leading up to the festival, teaching youngsters from YDU, school children and adult artists how to make giant puppets and fire sculptures for the annual street parade.
Pictures by Meg McGrath
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