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Wordstorm

9-11 May: Alice Springs
Alexis Wright, Morganics, Terry Whitebeach and Alice Springs writers

11-14 May: Tennant Creek and Ali Curung
Morganics, Terry Whitebeach
Featuring performance events, school and public workshops, panels and seminars

Alexis Wright is one of Australia's best-known Indigenous writers. She is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. A writer, researcher and social commentator, her new novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin this year and was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book for the South East Asia and South Pacific Region 2007.

Morganics is an award-winning Sydney based Hip Hop artist, performer and director. He has performed from Bondi to the Bronx, the Sydney Opera House to Long Bay Jail, Tanzania to Tokyo. Morganics is also Australia's foremost Hip Hop Theatre practitioner. His new album, Hip Hop is my Passport‚ is due out later this year, and was recorded in Tanzania, Brazil, New York, Berlin, Tokyo and Outback Australia.

Terry Whitebeach is perhaps best known for Bantam, a novel she wrote in collaboration with her son Michael Brown, about the life of an unemployed Indigenous teenager in a small country town. She was the joint winner of the NT Literary Awards, Poetry Division, with a poem My Daughter.

Theatre, Dance and Literature - touring 2008
Muttacar - Sorry Business Artback is extremely excited to be working with the Transport Safety Division of the Department of Planning & Infrastructure and Yirra Yaakin (YY), an Indigenous theatre company based in Western Australia. Artback will be touring YY's production of Muttacar - Sorry Business throughout the NT in 2008 taking it to approximately thirty remote Indigenous communities throughout central Australia. The production will also be presented to schools in Alice Springs, a performance at the Alice Springs jail and to Police Youth groups across the Territory. This tour will stretch across the breadth of the Territory from the Western Australian to the Queensland borders, covering more than 5,500 kilometres. Muttacar - Sorry Business is a hard hitting theatre piece aimed at reducing the road toll in Indigenous communities. The play tackles key issues such as drink-driving and risk-taking behaviour. All performances and their accompanying workshops are free.

	Wordstorm 9-11 May: Alice Springs Alexis Wright, Morganics, Terry Whitebeach and Alice Springs writers 11-14 May: Tennant Creek and Ali Curung Morganics, Terry Whitebeach Featuring performance events, school and public workshops, panels and seminars Alexis Wright is one of Australia's best-known Indigenous writers. She is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. A writer, researcher and social commentator, her new novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin this year and was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book for the South East Asia and South Pacific Region 2007. Morganics is an award-winning Sydney based Hip Hop artist, performer and director. He has performed from Bondi to the Bronx, the Sydney Opera House to Long Bay Jail, Tanzania to Tokyo. Morganics is also Australia's foremost Hip Hop Theatre practitioner. His new album, Hip Hop is my Passport‚ is due out later this year, and was recorded in Tanzania, Brazil, New York, Berlin, Tokyo and Outback Australia. Terry Whitebeach is perhaps best known for Bantam, a novel she wrote in collaboration with her son Michael Brown, about the life of an unemployed Indigenous teenager in a small country town. She was the joint winner of the NT Literary Awards, Poetry Division, with a poem My Daughter.

TRACY Writers: Sarah Cathcart with Nicola Fearn (Co-produced by Darwin Theatre Company & Business Unusual) An English girl arrives at Darwin airport in the summer of 1974. An Aboriginal girl travels on horseback in the winter of 1928. Both are fleeing a crime and will meet at the centre of a cyclone. Based on true stories of the people who experienced the catastrophic cyclone of the same name, TRACY celebrates survival, difference and another way of seeing. The show will be performed by the experienced and exciting team of Nicola Fearn and Samantha Chalmers whose work in 'The Pearler' (another Business Unusual show) so delighted Northern Australian audiences a couple of years ago. The show will also provide an opportunity for broader regional audiences to appreciate the remarkable work of Melbourne-based writer/director, Sarah Cathcart, whose strength as writer, director and creator of powerful original work is opening up new vistas for regional actors and audiences. Directed by Sarah Cathcart Designed by Louise McCarthy May Tour - Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine, Nhulunbuy.		The Pearler, 2004 Brown's Mart, Darwin Darwin Theatre Company and Business Unusual

Tanya Dan and Raymond Wright Photographer: David Nixon	BARRACKING Presented by Red Dust Theatre Supported by Artback NT, Red Dust Theatre Footy! Whether you love it or hate it, Red Dust Theatre’s production of Barracking will take you on an action packed journey into the world of Aussie Rules, a journey that will stay with you long after the show has finished. Barracking is an exuberant and lighthearted look at the effect AFL has on the lives of men, women and young people from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds in the Northern Territory. It is an action packed adventure that explores and celebrates the sense of hope, the spiritual significance and the extreme commitment AFL engenders with its players and followers.