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National Indigenous Music Awards
National Indigenous Music Awards 2016 Gurrumul reigned supreme again at this year’s NIMA taking out Artist of the Year for the fifth time. Newcomer and rapidly rising star Gawurra took home a swag of NIMA Awards winning New Talent of the Year, Album, Cover Art and Film Clip of the year – the latter being presented by Jack Thompson. Song of the Year was awarded to Briggs for The Children Came Back – featuring Dewayne Everettsmith & Gurrumul Yunupingu. In remote Aboriginal communities film clips are powerful modes of communication. They play crucial roles in educating communities and delivering important […]
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Wordstorm 2014: Top End Writers Festival
Wordstorm 2014: Top End Writers Festival Thursday May 28 – Sunday June 1 Various venues, Darwin, NT Literary Tempest ready to hit Darwin Prepare for this year’s WordStorm to rip through your mind stimulating it with compelling, often challenging and always entertaining subject matter that will leave you in a state of pleasant disruption and discovery. Thirty [30] writers from across the country will join forty [40] local writers from Darwin, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Tiwi, Katherine and Borroloola as part of this year’s program for the WordStorm Top End Writers Festival. The jam-packed program will feature seventy [70] writers, […]
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Tjintu Desert Band
Tjamuku Ngurra [translates to Grandfather’s Country] “For our community of around 200 people there is one general store, one school, no mobile phone range and little access to the internet. But Ikuntji [aka Haasts Bluff, NT] is much more than the town itself – it’s the rocky hills, the red earth, the country of our Dreaming, our grandfathers’ country.” Tjintu Desert Band. Upon listening to the debut album by Tjintu Desert Band [pronounced Jin-Too] it is evident these five young Aboriginal men from the remote Central Australian NT towns of Ikuntji and Kintore have a connection to their land, […]
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NT Fashion Week
NT FASHION WEEK LAUNCHES PROGRAM FOR 2014 and Announces the 2014 NT Face of Fashion Week The fashion forward gathered under the splendor of the Vic Courtyard to herald in the launch of this year’s 2014 NT Fashion Week program. This year’s NT Fashion Week builds upon the foundations built last year and ramps up production values across all events. Three runway shows will be held at the Darwin Convention Centre and provide a spectacular platform for NT designers and retailers to showcase their collections while simultaneously providing fashion lovers with the ability to get the latest looks for 2015. […]
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Crossing Roper Bar
Extraordinary tour crosses all boundaries Roper Bar is the point in the Roper River that makes it possible to cross into the remote NT town of Ngukurr. For months during the wet season it is impossible to cross. This is the inspiration for an extraordinary performance piece titled ‘Crossing Roper Bar’ Touring October 11th – 29th 2013 Crossing Roper Bar is a tour and celebration of an extraordinary collaboration between the Young Wagilak Group from Ngukurr in East Arnhem Land, legendary Kimberley singer/songwriter Stephen Pigram and the Australian Art Orchestra [AAO], led by internationally acclaimed musician and artistic director, Paul […]
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Darwin Festival
Darwin Festival 2012: 9 – 26 August Darwin Festival has become the premier Top End arts event with a program that is distinctly flavoured with Indigenous, Asian and multicultural events. Held over 18 days in August during the dry season, the Festival boasts an eclectic and colourful program encompassing theatre, music, dance, visual arts, comedy, film, workshops, and free events in tropical, outdoor venues. AUM PR has been the publicity team behind Darwin Festival since 2006 with the aim to promote the event to the Darwin community as well as to travellers and interstate visitors alike. For the full program […]
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The Reef Tour
Presented by Tura New Music & Australian Chamber Orchestra The Reef is a new multi media performance inspired by the rugged surf and tough desert landscape of the Ningaloo Coast. The Reef will have it’s worldwide premiere in Darwin on July 5, 2012. Experience a concert program of virtuosity celebrating the sheer wonder of the Australian landscape and soul. Tura New Music and the Australian Chamber Orchestra have joined forces with Indigenous artists Mark Atkins and Steve Pigram to create a tour to Northern and Western Australia like no other. The Reef evolved as the best way to allow as […]
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ANKAAA
ANKAAA, a peak visual arts body based in Darwin and servicing the Top End regions of WA and NT, holds an important position of cultivating the dialogue between aboriginal artists, art collectors and art conservators at some of Australia’s most prestigious art organisations. Harvesting Traditional Knowledge (HTK) is a two-year project bringing together Indigenous artists from homelands and Indigenous communities in northern Australia and conservators who look after the art from these regions held in collections of public museums and galleries across Australia. The project involves a series of workshops in remote regions which will culminate in the production of […]
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National SLAM Day – NT
AUM was asked to be the NT media contacts for inaugural National SLAM Day, which happened across the country on February 23. More than 100 venues signed up for the event to coincide with the two-year anniversary of the SLAM rally in Melbourne, where 20,000 people came together to protest against new liquor licensing policy linking live music to high risk and dangerous activity In the NT live music venues came together with a very strong SLAM Day showing of six events. This was more than in WA, ACT and Tasmania, sending a message that Northern Territorians rock! Local band […]