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Katie Woolf spoke with Darwin Festival Artistic Director Felix Preval · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now joining us on the line though, to let us
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  Speaker 1: know exactly what's going on for the weekend for the
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  Speaker 1: Darwin Festival is the artistic director Felix Pravail. Good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: Felix, Good morning Kadi.
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  Speaker 1: Felix. You've literally had everything thrown at you this festival,
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  Speaker 1: you know, interstate lockdown's actual lockdown here in the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 1: Yet the show is still managing to go on tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, we're feeling very tired, but incredibly fortunate to
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  Speaker 2: be able to present the last three incredible days of
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  Speaker 2: Darlin Festival programming for the good people of Darwin.
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  Speaker 1: Felix, talk us through. You know exactly what is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen over over these last three days?
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  Speaker 2: Sure well, I mean miraculously we have been able to
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  Speaker 2: reschedule almost all of the program from this week into
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  Speaker 2: the final three days. There are a few interstate artists
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  Speaker 2: who sadly did not make it. So the listes didn't
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  Speaker 2: make it obviously, Angie mc we knew what wasn't going
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  Speaker 2: to make it, and we lost Trevor Ashley who was
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  Speaker 2: a stand in for someone else anyway, But while the
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  Speaker 2: shows that are happening are going to be wonderful. So
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  Speaker 2: the Pulse. We have rescheduled four of the Pulse performances
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  Speaker 2: over tonight and Sunday. Now people should get excited. If
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  Speaker 2: you don't have a ticket, there will be last minute
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  Speaker 2: tickets available, so really watch out for that one. That's
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  Speaker 2: the huge circus work. We've got value for money, the
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  Speaker 2: gorgeous dance work by Alice Springs contemporary dance company Guts
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  Speaker 2: that's now sharing the Browns Mart Theater and a kind
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  Speaker 2: of a double bill with the bron Batten's hilarious production Waterloo.
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  Speaker 2: Still a couple of tickets left for that ye. Constantina
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  Speaker 2: Bush will now be taking us out on that final
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night, which be beautiful after Radioheads for solo Piano,
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  Speaker 2: which is now happening outdoors on the Sunset Stage on
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  Speaker 2: that final Sunday too, so it's going to be brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: We're obviously not able to dance, so we've done our
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  Speaker 2: last dancing shed us here for that, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we should just be thankful for what we get. And
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  Speaker 2: instead of club are we we will have two very
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  Speaker 2: special late night performances by the incredible Ruben k So
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  Speaker 2: people with tickets to Wednesday and Thursdays. Reuben k Is
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  Speaker 2: are now invited to come along Friday and Saturday at
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  Speaker 2: ten thirty. I look a little bit late, but you
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  Speaker 2: know what, he only gets funnier as the night gover.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet now. Well, it is wonderful news that
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  Speaker 1: people are still going to be able to get out
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  Speaker 1: and about and be at the festival for that final weekend. Felix,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that, you know, if they are seated in
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  Speaker 1: different areas, we've all got to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 1: wearing our masks. We have to try our best as
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  Speaker 1: well to make sure that we're distancing if we're out
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  Speaker 1: there enjoying food and that kind of thing, don't we.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Really, the big messaging is masks. If
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  Speaker 2: you are standing up and moving around, we want you
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  Speaker 2: to have a mask on. That's the rule. Once you
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  Speaker 2: are sitting down would your drink or with your food,
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  Speaker 2: you're allowed to take your mask off. You know, you're
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  Speaker 2: allowed to set to that drink for as lung as
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  Speaker 2: it takes you to finish it, just like anywhere else.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're not drinking, particularly when you're kind of
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  Speaker 2: moving around between the venues, we do ask you wear
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  Speaker 2: a mask. We'll have plenty of masks around if people
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  Speaker 2: are forgotten theirs. But you know, we're really asking people
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  Speaker 2: to be cool or only three days to get through,
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  Speaker 2: don't give us stuff a hard time, bring a mask.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, and you know we are. It's miraculous
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  Speaker 1: that we're still going to be in the situation that
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  Speaker 1: we are able to enjoy the festival for these final
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  Speaker 1: three days. So let's all just try our best to
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  Speaker 1: you know, to do the right thing by each other.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that is that's really the message as well,
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  Speaker 2: because we're so incredibly lucky to be here. Men have
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  Speaker 2: made it the spar kd he just feels incredible. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's wonderful to know that in that reprogram and we
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  Speaker 2: are able to present all of the Northern Territory artists
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  Speaker 2: who had made up the program so to not lose
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  Speaker 2: the locals and the lockdown feels really incredible and we're
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  Speaker 2: just so lucky.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so important. Well, Felix, all the best for the
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  Speaker 1: final weekend and we will talk to you again very soon.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, look forward to seeing you there.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. And that is the Darwin Festival's artistic director
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  Speaker 1: their Felix Praval, They have done a phenomenal job in
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  Speaker 1: terms of being able to reschedule different things and move
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  Speaker 1: things around so that we are all able to still
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the Darwin Festival. And as I always point out,
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  Speaker 1: I am on the board of that festival, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of fully disclaiming, on the board of
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  Speaker 1: that festival, and I do think that the full time
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  Speaker 1: staff they have done a phenomenal job in terms of
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  Speaker 1: being able to make sure that everything's been able to
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  Speaker 1: be rescheduled and moved around.