ALICE SPRINGS TO LIGHT UP IN APRIL 2019

The fourth annual Parrtjima – A Festival in Light, on from 28 September to 7 October 2018, is moving from its original September timing to an earlier schedule in April 2019. The popular festival, a free family-friendly event, will run from 5-14 April 2019, and will continue to celebrate the magnificent contemporary Aboriginal art of Central Australia. Parrtjima showcases the oldest continuous culture on Earth through the newest technology, on a 300-million-year-old natural canvas, illuminating 2.5 km of the epic MacDonnell Ranges and spilling into Alice Springs Desert Park. The 2018 festival launched a dedicated children’s space to engage and incite curiosity among young and old alike. Benedict Kngwarraye Stevens, one of the Apmereke-artweye (traditional owner) for Mparntwe and member of the Parrtjima Festival Reference Group said: “It always begins with sand. Always did. It’s like us. We were brought up in dust, and we go back to dust. See. Like that. The cycle. From sand to canvas to light to sand again. It’s like us.” parrtjimaaustralia.com.au