Garma incorporates visual art, ancient storytelling, dance – including the famous nightly bunggul – and music, as well as other important forums and education and training programs relevant to cultural tourism, craft, governance and youth leadership.
It aims:
To provide contemporary environments and programs for the practice, preservation, maintenance and presentation of traditional knowledge systems and cultural traditions and practices, especially bunggul (traditional dance), Manikay (song), Miny' tji (art) and ceremony.
To share knowledge and culture, thereby fostering greater understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
To develop economic opportunities for Yolngu through education, training, employment, enterprise and remote Indigenous community development.
Garma is presented by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, a not-for-profit Aboriginal corporation with tax deductibility gift recipient status.
All Garma registrations and revenues are directed into projects to support the Foundation and the Arnhem region.