The garma festival.
The sound of the didgeridoo, the traditional musical instrument of aborinal australians, announces the beginning of the garma festival.This annual celebration of aboriginal culture is a call to all people to come together in unity.During the festival.visitors enjoy the traditional art,dance music and song of the yolngu tribe.but garma ia not just about the ways that the yolngu did thrings in the past. The Garma festival is also about their future.aboriginal australians like the tolngu heve lived the continent for over 40,000 years.The were many different tribes each witch with their own language.When european settlers arrived in the eighteenth century,thoungh, the aboriginals lost their land and many of them died. Luckily, their culture survived and is now an important part od australian life.Aboriginal australians believe that everything has a soul or a sprit,including the landscape and the weather.Thia creates a unique bond between the people and theland.They tell stories and paint pictures about the dreaming,the when the world began.Aboriginal australian art is famous not just for the handmade boomerangs or decorated didgeridoos for tourists,but for valuable bark paintings and cerefully constructed dot paintings that now hang in art galleries around the world.In the yolngu language garma is something that takes place when people from fifferent backgrounds meet to share knowledge.The festival is held on holy ground in the forest as a way to highlight the past and raise awareness about the future of aboriginal ausralians.There are traditional dances and dedgeridoo perfomancess,but there are also gatherings to discuss ways of investing in the native people and their land.Not everyone can attend the festival.This special event that brings togerher the past,present and future is so popular that attendance is by invitation only.People can apply throungh the garma festival website.