WOMAD

WOMADelaide has bitten the bullet, taken the bull by the horns and announced a four day festival! From 5th March to 8th March you can enjoy the delights that WOMADelaide will be sure to offer.

Over these four days, WOMADelaide runs six outdoor stages featuring performances and intimate workshops by around 35 groups from over 20 countries. It also presents a KidZone, visual arts and street theatre programs, and an amazing Global Village of 100 arts, crafts, international cuisine and educational display stalls and three bars.

The magical ambience of WOMADelaide at Adelaide Botanical gardens is indescribably lush; thousands of people of all ages bliss out as they enjoy the sounds of the planet while catching up with friends in the sunshine, lazing under the trees, shopping, eating, drinking and having fun with their family. Hmmm perfection.

WOMADELAIDE Foundation

The WOMADELAIDE Foundation Ltd is a non-profit body established to present the annual WOMADelaide festival, and to foster and develop long term educational activities and cultural exchange through the festival program. It is listed on the Commonwealth Government's Register of Cutural Organisations (ROCO), enabling any donations made to the Foundation's Donations Fund to be fully tax deductible.

The Foundation has identified as one of its main goals a desire to focus on and develop art and cultural projects with indigenous artists. The WOMADelaide Foundation, the YYF and community members from North East Arnhem Land worked together over 18 months to present the Gupapuynu Dancers at the 2006 festival.

In 2007, thanks to a generous private donation from Maureen Ritchie, two fantastic projects took place. One was the Nganampa Band music project, where the renowned indigenous singer-songwriter Kev Carmody was working with musicians from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. The other was the Tjanpi Desert Weavers Project, in which Sandy Elverd, the respected Adelaide-based visual artist, worked with indigenous women artists from the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. For information on the Foundation's 2010 festival project, Kungkarangkalpa in the Sky, please click here.

To make a tax deductible donation towards future Foundation projects email Di Farrell on dfarrell@artsprojects.com.au