Darwin Community Arts aims to produce a unique, adventurous and distinctly Darwin community festival at Malak. This Festival will involve the whole Darwin community, engage an array of artists (visual artists, performers, graffiti artists, photographers) as well as bring a sense of identity to the central Malak precinct. The event is the Darwin Fridge Festival. Yes Fridge!

The Darwin Fridge Festival, whilst emerged as a tongue-in-cheek joke on a Fringe Festival, has grown into a large scale community event. The humble fridge is a Darwin icon, and Darwin Community Arts wants to explore its possibilities as an art and cultural centrepiece.

The Darwin Fridge Festival will also explore environment themes relating to the fridge such as landfill, energy efficiency and recycling.

The community can become involved in a number of ways:

1.Pimp My Fridge - Submitting highly decorated and 'bedazzled' fridges with music, effects and alter egos.

2.A Workin' Art Fridge - Fridges (working or non working) decorated by local artists.

3.Community Art Workshops - Artists are connected with community organisations and schools to paint a fridge over a series of workshops.

3.Social History Exhibition - A display of fridges, donated from people's home, telling Darwin's history through stickers, notes, scribbles and images embedded on the fridges.

4.Me and My Fridge - Photography exhibition of fridges around NT who could not attend the Festival in person.

5.Fridge Theatre - Performances within the fridge or about the fridge (fridge poetry slam, fridge songs, fridge interpretive dance!)

6.Transformers - Designers transforming the humble fridge into another piece of household furniture; TV cabinet, CD holder, book shelf, stereo cabinet.

7.Esky Market - Artists decorate esky's and portable fridges for sale in the Festival's Esky Market, available for purchase on the day.

8.Aerosol Art - Graffiti artists conduct workshops on how to safely paint fridges, with an exhibition of painted fridges at the Festival.

9.'Best of' fridges will be on display during Recycling Week in November.

Artists are able to sell their fridges at the Festival, and registration is free.

To register your interest, or for more information contact Festival Coordinator Sarah van der Sommen at sarah.vds@darwincommunityarts.org.au or 0418 429 780