The full program for Parrtjima – a Festival in Light 2021 has been announced

Hosted 9-18 April in Alice Springs, this year’s event will see an exciting new show for the MacDonnell Ranges, seven new large-scale light installations, and an incredible array of performances, workshops, talks and films woven into the program’s 2021 theme ‘Future Kultcha’.

 

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

 

Signature Installations:

• Landing Kultcha: Welcoming guests to Alice Springs Desert Park, Landing Kultcha spans an incredible 20 metres and unifies male and female cultural traditions, represented by carved spears and digging sticks.  
• Revolving Kultcha: Celebrating the similarities between the traditional coolamon and shield with the contemporary skateboard, this installation Revolving Kultcha features the shared forms of shields, coolamons and skateboards.
• Merging Kultcha: Symbolising the inter-connected history between local Arrernte people and Cameleers, Merging Kultcha features a train of five illuminated camels, each over three metres high.
• Harvesting Kultcha: Linking traditional knowledge of how women gather the honey ant, Harvesting Kultcha is an interactive display inspired by the constant movement of the honey ant nest.
• Grounded Kultcha: This crowd favourite makes a return, with a mesmerising animated sequence of curated artworks projected on to the sands of Alice Springs Desert park.
• Spirit Kultcha: Two kilometres of the MacDonnell Ranges come alive through a spectacular light and sound show and for the first time in Parrtjima’s history, the soundtrack for the Ranges is a collaboration with renowned Aboriginal electronic music duo Electric Fields.
• Tailoring Kultcha: Parrtjima will transform Todd Mall in Alice Springs CBD into an exhibition of light and textiles that showcases the innovation and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and designers.

 

Music program:

This year’s music program will feature some of Australia’s most talented musicians performing in front of the ancient MacDonnell Ranges. Musical acts taking to the stage include:

• Electric Fields
• Casey Donovan
• Miiesha
• DOBBY
• Ziggy Ramo

 

Talks program:

Parrtjima Curator Rhoda Roberts AO introduces an incredible line-up of contemporary speakers and topics in a series of captivating and thought-provoking conversations. Speakers include:

• Taking Control – The Colour Palette with artist and tour operator, Jungala Kriss
• Loving Country with artist and educator, Bruce Pascoe
• Welcome to Country with activist and academic, Professor Marcia Langton AM

 

Workshop program:

Experience the passing of intergenerational knowledge and culture firsthand. Workshops include:

• Fabric and textiles workshop with Creative Director of the National Indigenous Fashion Awards, Nina Fitzgerald
• Bushfood talk and tastings with renowned founder of Kungkas Can Cook, Rayleen Brown
• Skateboard deck painting workshops with the Northern Territory’s first Aboriginal qualified skateboard instructor Nicky Hayes, Spinifex Skateboards

 

The full program can be viewed here.

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