Darwin Festival 2025: collective visions, creative collaborations and musical treats

The 2025 Darwin Festival features eight world premieres, an array of acclaimed works and a rich mix of musical offerings.
An atmopheric photo of Darwin Festival's Festival Park at dusk, showing festivalgoers dining al fresco under fairy lights and the sunset-streaked sky.

The 2025 Darwin Festival – its 46th edition – features eight world premieres, five of which are Indigenous cultural performances, as well as a strong line-up of live music programming and a carefully curated range of critically acclaimed productions from interstate.

In developing Antidote, Tracks’ Artistic Leadership engaged a team of ‘Hope Collectors’ to gather stories, sounds and moves from the broader Darwin community, thereafter distilling the collected materials into artistic shape.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts