WALKING WITH SPIRITS
Presented by Djilpin Arts in partnership with the Australian Shakespeare Company, WALKING WITH SPIRITS is Beswick Community’s annual open cultural celebration. Held 20 kms from the Community at the spectacular wilderness location Malkgulumbu, WALKING WITH SPIRITS features traditional corroborree from several Arnhem Land languages together with songs and stories told in dance, music, puppetry, fire and film. Initiated by the community in 2002, WALKING WITH SPIRITS is held every year on the last weekend in July. Visitors are invited to camp for the weekend in this spectacular lakeside setting, open to the public only once a year.

Numbers are strictly limited and bookings are essential.

BOOK ONLINE at www.shakespeareaustralia.com.au or phone 1300 122 322.

Tickets are also available from all Darwin Entertainment Centre outlets.

Saturday 2nd August 10am to Sunday 3rd August 5pm 2008.

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WALK WITH SPIRITS FESTIVAL
"We walk through the rustle of paperbarks and settle by campfires. With the moon rising over the sandstone ridge and shadows of the Aboriginal songmen and dancers flickering all around, we are on a journey older than any of us, one that began in the age of the ancestors. The Walking with Spirits festival is held each year at the end of July or early August at Malkgulumbu, a waterfall and sacred site on the land of the Jawoyn people, near the remote community of Wugularr, about 100 kilometres south of Katherine. On a night like this, camped with my family and our Aboriginal friends, is where I love to be. It is a place of unforgettable beauty and tranquility, with a deep sense of what is shared and how the land shapes us all. Djilpin Arts, the creative company led by Aboriginal musician and actor Tom E. Lewis, and supported by the Australian Shakespeare Company, blends music, dance, puppetry, animation, short films, and burning 3D images blazing against the night sky.

SPIRITUAL Take your family on a journey into the past in a sacred setting.”