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AUSTRALIA (ARNHEM LAND) - THE GARMA FESTIVAL is an annual 4-day celebration of Yolngu culture held in northeast Arnhem Land, showcasing ancient story-telling and traditional miny'tji (art), manikay (song), and bunggul (dance).
Please visit garma.com.au for most recent announcements and festival dates.
Photo: Members of the Gumatj clan performing bunggul (traditional dance) at the opening of the Garma Festival. © Melanie Faith Dove / Yothu Yindi Foundation.
SLOW TRAVEL IN BALI: Tim Fijal is the humble man behind THE ASTUNGKARA WAY. As the founder of Kul Kul Connection at Green School Bali since 2012, he has worked bringing both local and international communities together, recognising common values to preserve traditional agricultural wisdoms to create sustainable and eco-environmental change. A few years ago he was introduced to Pak Ketut, an elderly rice farmer in his 80's, who shared his ancestral land to walk the Kul Kul Connection team through the rice cycle from seed to table. This deeply moving experience led Tim to start a partnership with a rice farming cooperative in Subak Uma Lambing, where he has been working with local farmers and international learners for the past 3 years. Tim left the Green School in 2020 to launch THE ASTUNGKARA WAY. to support farmers throughout Bali in a transition to natural farming as well as to create compelling reasons to bring Balinese youth back to the fields to embrace their 'warisan' (heritage).
It was a vivid dream that inspired Tim to create a coast-to-coast pilgrimage,‘THE ASTUNGKARA TRAIL’ Click to know more.