Darwin Festival represents the NT at the Australian Performing Arts Market

Recently, members of the Darwin Festival team went to Adelaide for the Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM)

APAM brings together performing arts presenters and producers from around Australia and overseas, to network, buy and sell a broad range of performing arts product. It is the largest gathering of its kind in the southern hemisphere.

As part of this week long event, Darwin Festival presented a performance of the acclaimed 2009 production The First Astronomers? under the stars on the banks of Adelaide’s Torrens River. The Spotlight performance, the opening one of the conference, generated significant interest in amongst deleagtes which could lead to one of the Territory’s great stories being told to new audiences near and far. You can find out more about APAM here

The First Astronomers?, which performed to sellout audiences in the 2009 Darwin Festival brings together two great characters- Bill Yidumduma Harney, senior custodian of the Wardaman people, and CSIRO astrophysicist Ray Norris to explore their separate , yet hauntingly similar notions of the question: who were the first astronomers? . For more information on this very special and singular performance, click here.