About Festival Opening
Please join us in the gardens for a very special opening of the 2019 NT Writers’ Festival – Alice Springs where we begin the journey of Lyapirtneme | Returning. Pat Ansell Dodds will open the festival with songs and dances of Arrernte songwomen, followed by short readings from guest and local participating writers, including Merlinda Bobis, Maureen Nampijimpa O’Keefe, Charles Massy, Monica Gagliano, Kirli Saunders and Charmaine Papertalk Green, and students from the Poetry in First Languages workshops.