The opening ceremony for Dark Mofo this year was not conceived by the festival creative team — but rather, by the Palawa/Pakana community, traditional custodians of lutruwita. Listen: Caleb Nichols-Mansell on ABC Drive Photo shows A young Aboriginal Tasmanian man looks into the camera seriously, he's standing outside an old building Nala Mansell from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre told ABC …
The multimillionaire behind the art festival slammed over its plan to use donated blood to soak a British flag for an art project has admitted he "approved it without much thought", as calls for a boycott of this year's festival grow. Key points: Aboriginal artists are being urged to boycott the Dark Mofo festival and MONA after the flag controversy …