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Speaker 1: Well, we are well and truly into the dry season now,

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Speaker 1: with so many wonderful things planned for the calendar and

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Speaker 1: Darwin Festival today announcing the return of the ever popular

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Speaker 1: Spiegel Tent with an extravagant new cabaret and sexy circus show,

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Speaker 1: and joining us on the line to tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit more is the Darwin Artistic Well, the Darwin

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Speaker 1: Festivals Artistic Director Kate Fell.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Kate, good morning, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, lovely to have you on the show. Now, Kate,

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about what is planned for

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Speaker 1: the Speagel Tent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, everyone loves the Speaker ten. It was a

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Speaker 2: great hit of last year's festival. Bringing it back to

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Speaker 2: the Festival Law which is just across the road from

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Speaker 2: Festival Park in front of Parliament House. And we've got

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Speaker 2: a brand new show, The Party. It's you know, the

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Speaker 2: party to end all parties and everything you know and

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Speaker 2: love about Spiegel Tent shows that kind of takes it

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Speaker 2: to a new level of kind of risk, a humor

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Speaker 2: and amazing costumes, incredible aerials and just a really really fun.

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Speaker 1: Night out And so can people expect like is it

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Speaker 1: going to be obviously a very different show to last year,

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Speaker 1: but is it a similar kind of you know seem.

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Speaker 2: Look it's the same, make it so Stratton for it.

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Speaker 2: They make shows, they too all around the world with

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Speaker 2: these shows, and they bring artists, you know, great international

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Speaker 2: artists as well, so you can expect everything that if

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Speaker 2: you saw Blocks to Bloc last year, it's got that

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Speaker 2: same feel. It's a it's a really really fun but

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Speaker 2: this one is like it's kind of even more circus.

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Speaker 2: It's really the costumes are really kind of out there

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Speaker 2: and lavish, and yeah, you know they get everyone up dancing,

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Speaker 2: so at the interval and at the end with a

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Speaker 2: really awesome soundtrack.

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Speaker 1: It'll be amazing, you know, they it always is, Kate,

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Speaker 1: how busy are you at the moment? It's like the

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Speaker 1: busiest time of the year for you. It's getting a

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Speaker 1: bit crazy, I would imagine, trying to organize it.

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Speaker 2: We're launching the full program in two weeks, which is

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Speaker 2: really exciting, and you know, I mean this one is

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Speaker 2: absolutely full adults only. Yeah, but there's plenty of shows

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Speaker 2: that will be announcing, lots of great family shows, lots

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Speaker 2: of shows for everyone. So you know, I kind of

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Speaker 2: always have this thing where not every show is for everyone. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's a show for everyone in the festival. So that's

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Speaker 2: what you'll look forward to in two weeks when you

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Speaker 2: see the full.

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Speaker 1: Program, and I reckon that's a great way of doing it.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can't please everybody with every single show,

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Speaker 1: but you can certainly please everybody with the whole program.

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Speaker 1: And they're being something for everyone absolutely.

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Speaker 2: And I mean, gosh, Darwin Festival in August as you know,

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Speaker 2: like it's such a great time of year at the

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Speaker 2: grass time in Darwin and everyone in the city really

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Speaker 2: comes alive. And what I love about you know, this

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Speaker 2: shows the party. It kind of is really symbolizing of

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Speaker 2: the whole festival, which is Darwin Festival. Darwin puts on

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Speaker 2: a great party in August every year and you know,

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Speaker 2: everyone is invited and the whole city is invited. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm always saying, right now, make sure you're telling your

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Speaker 2: friends and family come up to August, because you're guaranteed

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Speaker 2: a pretty amazing festival and festival experience.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you truly are, now, Kate, did you say two

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Speaker 1: weeks time is when the full program's going to be.

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Speaker 2: Released even less? Actually yeah, so yeah, the twenty ninth

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Speaker 2: of May will reveal the full program. We've had a

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Speaker 2: few great little announcements. The Amphitheater is back with some

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Speaker 2: excellent concerts during a weekend in Palmerstan and the Spiegel Tent.

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Speaker 2: So you know, there's been a few things we've revealed,

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Speaker 2: but you know, there's about eighty shows that we're doing

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Speaker 2: to being out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's like we're both touched on. It is

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Speaker 1: such an amazing time to be in Darwin. It's always

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Speaker 1: so wonderful when the Darwin Festival gets underway. Are there, like,

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Speaker 1: are there any changes for this year that you're able

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Speaker 1: we have previously seen.

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Speaker 2: Look, it's how I came up to Tahowen in twenty

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Speaker 2: you know, planning and programming twenty three and then of

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Speaker 2: course this one I saw at a festival in twenty

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Speaker 2: two and when, oh my god, this is such a

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Speaker 2: special festival. You don't have to change anything. It's just

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Speaker 2: like what I've tried to do over these last two

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Speaker 2: festivals is just bring new ideas and new phavors and

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Speaker 2: new shows and artists. But the you know, it's the

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Speaker 2: ingredients are all there for you know, this is our

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Speaker 2: forty fifth year actually in Dawen Festival, so it's a

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Speaker 2: festival that's really close to people's parts. My job is

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Speaker 2: not to go crazy and change things. But each year

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Speaker 2: you're trying to, you know, keep up in the anti.

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Speaker 2: You know, people also want things that are new and surprising,

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Speaker 2: so yeah, expect what you know and love. But I'm

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Speaker 2: really pleased with all of the acts and the shows

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Speaker 2: we've got this year. I think by everyone you know

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Speaker 2: who's going to find people are going to love it.

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Speaker 1: How cool and love that You're also expanding out to

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Speaker 1: Palmestan as well.

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Speaker 2: I know that's been really fantastic. So that's the middle weekend.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we still do everything that's happening in Darwin

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Speaker 2: is still on in festival parks, but being hard to

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Speaker 2: expand out, really great opportunity for a weekend. We've got

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Speaker 2: a Friday family fun night with some great acts on

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Speaker 2: stage and Autho roving entertainment. The markets will be on

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Speaker 2: so that's a whole free night and then on Saturday

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Speaker 2: is like a ticketed comedy awesome show. Actually we've got

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Speaker 2: Merrick Watts, Jill Rock says Sina, Nikki Britten and local

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Speaker 2: Kelly Gulliver. So really fun night of comedy and that's

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Speaker 2: you know, that's a great night that we can come

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Speaker 2: with your friends and family, friends and friends and mates

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Speaker 2: for a great night out.

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Speaker 1: Well, Kate lovely to speak to you this morning. Just

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Speaker 1: for anybody out there listening this morning who's keen to

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Speaker 1: get their hands on some tickets, Can they buy them already?

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Speaker 2: Yes, so they can buy tickets to the party the

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Speaker 2: Spiegle Tent show from now. The full program will be

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Speaker 2: on sale kind of late May, but yeah, jump on

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Speaker 2: the website now. You know the Spiegletent, especially those Friday

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Speaker 2: Saturday night shows do sell out pretty quickly, so they

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Speaker 2: do get on and book book now. And also if

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Speaker 2: you've got like a group, if you've got your birthday

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Speaker 2: at that time, or you know, want to entertain your

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Speaker 2: staff or a party, so you know we're really up

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Speaker 2: for that too, so just call Darwin Festivalists and go

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Speaker 2: on the website if you want to host a group

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Well. Kate Fell the Darwin Festival Artistic Director. Lovely to

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Speaker 1: speak to you this morning. All the best over the

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Speaker 1: coming weeks.

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Speaker 2: No doubt I'm talking to you when the program comes out.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a plan. Good luck, we'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Kate. Thank you,