The Darwin Festival

The Darwin Festival, founded as the Bougainvillea Festival in 1979 and named Festival of Darwin from 1996 to 2002, is an annual arts festival in Darwin, Northern Territory.

Access is the PR partner for Australia's hottest winter arts event, Darwin Festival. We manage national and local publicity for this 18-day celebration of music, theatre, dance, comedy, and visual arts.

From strategy to execution, we drive awareness, attendance and ticket sales with impactful editorial coverage, working closely with the festival’s artistic director and key talent to secure high-value, on-message exposure across interstate and local media.

We manage major announcements, strategic pitching, media relations, launches, interviews and live broadcasts, publicising more than 180 events across more than 40 venues. In 2024, we secured features in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Courier-Mail, Australian Traveller, Time Out, Channel 9, ABC and more.

In our first year working with Darwin Festival, we contributed to a record-breaking attendance of 177,134 and sales of more than 55,000 tickets – marking one of the festival’s most successful editions since 1979.

Tourism NT
Northern Territory Major Events Company (NTMEC)
Noël Sydney
The Darwin Festival
Good Food Month and Good Food Guide
The Star Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Barangaroo Delivery Authority
Sydney Airport
St Vincent’s Hospitals
Charles Darwin University
Mates4Mates

Acknowledgment of Country

Access PR acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as owners and custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

We pay our respects to their ancestors and elders – past, present and emerging – and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, waters and community.