{"id":2128,"date":"2019-08-28T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2019-08-28T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T04:48:10","slug":"engaging-with-the-crowds-at-garma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/2019\/08\/28\/engaging-with-the-crowds-at-garma\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging with the crowds at Garma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year of Garma has come and gone and the city of tents once again packed away with their coating of red dust significantly forever upon them.<\/p>\n<p>Feng Huang and Margot Wall who managed the Flinders NT booth, promoted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/medicine\/courses\/medical-course\/nt-medical-program\/nt-medical-program.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studying medicine in the NT<\/a> and engaged with visitors through fun games and activities. Third-year Flinders NT Medical Program student Teagan Short kept the crowd tested with a challenge to see who could beat her 25 second \u201creturn of the organs\u201d, with her record safe until the Year 10 Nhulunbuy High students arrived!<\/p>\n<p>Many forums were held throughout the festival reflecting a true story-telling from the traditional people of the land, and a spotlight on pathways to a better future for Indigenous Australians.<\/p>\n<p>The evenings\u2019 music, starting with the calling of the yidaki (didgeridoo) and the bilma (clapsticks), joined with the voices of the Yolngu, and was heard throughout the Gulkula site drawing you to the centre of celebrations and the Bunggul dancing.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yyf.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garma Festival<\/a> is an annual festival of Yolngu culture held by the Yothu Yindi Foundation in North-East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. 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