The Garma Festival is Australia’s largest Indigenous gathering, a 4-day celebration of Yolngu life and culture held in remote northeast Arnhem Land.

Butter Media was invited by Google Arts & Culture and the Yothu Yindi Foundation to document the Garma Festival 2022 and contribute to the Garma Google Arts page.

Hosted by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, Garma showcases traditional miny’tji (art), manikay (song), bunggul (dance) and story-telling, and is an important meeting point for the clans and families of the region. The Festival’s over-riding cultural mission is to provide a contemporary environment for the expression and presentation of traditional Yolngu knowledge systems and customs, and to share these practices in an authentic Yolngu setting.

An elderly man with gray hair and a beard, painted with black, white, and yellow designs, is holding a spear and participating in a traditional ceremony or dance, with other similarly painted men in the background.
A man looking directly into the camera amidst blurry foreground figures, with a bearded man on the right side of the image, part of whose face is visible.
Two people embracing in a hug, one wearing glasses and a gray hat, the other with dark hair, against a background of green leaves and a structure with horizontal blinds.
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A man holds a spear up to his eye, with a blurred green background.
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A young girl with colorful clothing looking up at a person in a tie-dye shirt during a festival or celebration.
Logo of the Garma 2022 event, featuring indigenous artwork and symbols, with text indicating partnership with Google Arts & Culture.