Alice Springs’ Dazzling Parrtjima Festival Will Light Up the Red Centre Again in April – Concrete Playground

It might just be Australia’s brightest festival, and it’s returning to light up Alice Springs once again. That’d be Parrtjima – A Festival In Light, which will deliver its sixth annual program between Friday, April 9–Sunday, April 18 — returning to the autumn time slot it established in 2019.

After a chaotic 2020, which saw the event postponed to September due to COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions — and offer a virtual tour, too — the fest has big plans for 2021. Once more, it’ll continue its free ten-day public celebration of Indigenous arts, culture, music and storytelling, and its focus on dazzling light installations. This time around, the event is corralling its program around the theme ‘future kultcha’. That means…