August 2010
18 posts
Review: B2M Remixed Live with Countbounce
Review by Clara Mills Arts Hub Formed in 2004 in their home community of Wurrumiyanga (Nguiu) in the Tiwi Islands, B2M is a six piece R n’ B pop band with traditional flavor. The band is comprised of young indigenous men who sing about the issues that effect their community and young people generally such as drugs, alcohol and suicide. B2M signature is vocal harmonizing with an R n B, hip hop...
Review: En Route
Review by Fiona Mackrell Arts Hub
Standing amongst the shops and luxury hotels of the resort-like Darwin waterfront you imagine hearing the wail of sirens, the crashing of bombs, the distant voices reporting death and destruction in this very place, 19 February 1942, almost 70 years ago.
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Review: When His Watch Stopped
Review by Clara Mills Arts Hub
How do you discuss the raw devastation of war? How do you explain the devastation of war with children?
When His Watch Stopped is an original children’s play about war by the Sadari Theatre Company. The Company was founded in 1988 with a vision to specialise in children’s drama. The company uses traditional play elements combined with puppetry and expressive...
Festival Postcard
August 18, 2010 Last night I saw a Tiwi Island show with a group of elderly women (with one or two middle aged and one young one) singing with young western musicians. The women were having so much fun - too chaotic to be termed a choir.
It was great - as part of the project the women had been to Canberra to check out the archives. There was film of a traditional dance from 1912 that...
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Review: Ngarukuruwala - We Sing Songs →
Regina Kantilla says “…We don’t write things down like you mob. Our songs are our history books”.
By Trish Gaff
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Review: Barry Brown and the GetDown →
By Bob Gosford
Barry Brown & the GetDown – the bastard children of Freddy Mercury and Dave Graney meet James Brown inna funkhouse!
There have been a few Barry Browns about in our time – there is the American playwright and actor that passed away in 1978 and then there is the Jamaican reggae singer, who also died young – but this is the story of Australia’s – no, Darwin’s – very own Barry...
Reviews: Fergus Brown & Goose Lagoon →
Great reviews of Darwin Festival events
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Review: The Tamarind Tree Storytelling Session →
Review: The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik →
Review: Not Dead Yet →
REVIEW: The Java Quartet →
First review of The Java Quartet - playing The Lighthouse, August 24 & 25
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Bob Gosford: Darwin Festival Diary - Goose Lagoon →
REVIEW: Not Dead Yet
Review 13 August, 2010 The retrospective of Therese Ritchie and Chips Mackinolty is vast; it’s a retrospective of the Territory also. Some of the better known iconic works were statement pieces, a social commentary, of their time. Many remain a current social commentary of this time.
The contrast of long grass and short grass people living their lives independent of each other’s is...
Bob Gosford - Darwin Festival Diary: Not Dead Yet →
REVIEW: The Tamarind Tree Storytelling
Review 12 August, 2010 “You’ve got be careful with family histories… you never know where its going to take you” says Gail, with a laugh.
She’s come from Brisbane, and shared one of her stories for the first time today. It’s a strong story. It’s a meaningful story. It’s a beautiful story that I am glad Gail shared with myself and the other 30 or so people...
July 2010
1 post
Darwin Festival 2010
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