The Garma Festival is a celebration of the Yolngu cultural inheritance. The Garma ceremony is aimed at sharing knowledge and culture, and opening people’s hearts to the message of the land at Gulkula. The site at Gulkula has profound meaning for Yolngu. Set in a stringybark forest with views to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Gulkula is where the ancestor Ganbulabula brought the yidaki (didjeridu) into being among the Gumatj people. The festival is designed to encourage the practice, preservation and maintenance of traditional dance (bunggul), song (manikay), art and ceremony on Yolngu lands in Northeast Arnhem Land.
Garma is organised by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, a not-for-profit Aboriginal charitable corporation with charitable status. All attendance fees and other revenues received go to the operation of the Foundation's programs and projects, such as Garma, to achieve the following outcomes:
Encouraging and developing economic opportunities for Yolngu through education, training, employment and enterprise development
Sharing knowledge and culture, thereby fostering greater understanding between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians
Nurturing and maintaining of Yolngu cultural traditions and practices
Garma is one of Australia's most significant cultural exchange events, a key educational forum, and an award-winning model for authentic, insightful Indigenous tourism.
source: Garma festival website |
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