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Arts & Community

Brown’s Mart is committed to providing a supportive home for artists and our broader community, through sharing our resources, providing advice, auspicing grants, mentorship, and working closely with artists to identify professional development strategies and opportunities.

We promote and advocate for Territory artists – locally, throughout the NT, nationally and internationally, and work with them to offer greater access and deeper engagement wherever we can.

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Darwin Fringe

July 12-21, 2024

Ever since the first Darwin Fringe ran amok at Brown’s Mart over 30 years ago we’ve loved and supported this remarkable event.

The Darwin Fringe Festival is the biggest platform for emerging artists in the Top End. Darwin’s independent arts festival with bite, Fringe presents hundreds of shows each year, with many in their curated hub here at Brown’s Mart. They’re also our office mates, with Brown’s Mart supporting this community festival with free office space year round.

We’re proud to be a part of the Darwin Fringe Festival story, and we know you’ll love their program this July!

darwinfringe.org.au

First Nations Engagement Program

The First Nations Engagement Program is an initiative direct from our First Nations Artistic Advisory Group and represents the first in a multi-step approach towards ensuring Brown’s Mart is a welcoming, safe, positive space for First Nations audiences, artists, and employees.

Commencing early in 2023, the FN Community Engagement Coordinator will set up and run this introductory program which will connect with and build partnerships with various organisations who work with Indigenous young people, facilitating access to Brown’s Mart, our artists and shows, offering workshops, and establishing mechanisms for ongoing mentorship.

Read more here.

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Residency

Auspicing

Brown’s Mart provides grant auspicing services to NT performing artists year round. Fees are determined on a project-by-project basis, never exceeding 10% of the grant amount, and we are available to assist you with your grant where appropriate.

Auspiced funds are managed through Brown’s Mart’s financial systems and successful grant recipients are assisted with funding variation requests and acquittals.

ap@brownsmart.com.au

Community Hires

ENGAGE

Our ENGAGE program supports heavily subsidised one-week bookings of the Brown’s Mart Theatre. This program is open to Independent Artists, Cooperatives and Community Groups. ENGAGE provides up to $10,000 worth of venue hire and staff support for selected projects, and applicants are assessed on their proposed outcomes for artists and audiences. Up to two projects will be supported in 2023.

Applications open now: click here

HAPPY YESS

Performance Experiments

Welcome Tour

Beyond just being the home for an arts organisation, the site of the Brown’s Mart precinct has a long history. We’ve created this tour to take you on the journey of this place: dating back tens of thousands of years as Gulumerridjin (Larrakia) Country, its different lives since the first building went up in the 1880s, and most recently as a hub for the arts in the Darwin CBD.

Explore the AR exhibition by scanning the floor markers in our courtyard, view the images and stories on-site, or download the Welcome to Brown’s Mart Tour App and listen to the audio stories anytime, anywhere.

Learn more about the Welcome Tour HERE

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