While all Top End services are available to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous clients, Ali Copley, the Indigenous Arts Marketing Officer is equipped and keen to assist with specialist advice for marketing Indigenous events and marketing to Indigenous people and communities.

Ali can be contacted on 8941 7408, 0439 844 039 or by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Indigenous Funding Information
We hold comprehensive information about funding for Indigenous arts and Ali is happy to assist with finding appropriate funding source for your needs, and where possible, to assist with your funding applications.

Indigenous Arts Events Marketing
With extensive experience working with Indigenous communities, festivals and groups we’re well placed to provide you with information, resources and where possible, hands on assistance to help you market your events to Indigenous communities or market your Indigenous events.

We can help with marketing plans, communication strategies, creating a strong identity for your event, identifying audiences, marketing related training, identifying advertising and promotional opportunities, creating marketing budgets, contacting the media and lots more.

If you would like assistance please ensure you contact Ali well in advance of your event to ensure appropriate planning can be put in place to maximise your marketing strategies.

Downlad Indigenous Festival Event Plan of Action

Stepping Stones for Festivals
Top End Arts staff have worked with many Indigenous community festivals over the last five years to help make sure the form the festival takes meets the community’s original goals. We have developed a special consultation program for communities called Stepping Stones for Festivals and will come to your community to work on this program over two to three days with the people most involved in planning and organizing the festival.

In October / November 2010 we will be holding regional networking meetings of community festival organisers in Katherine and Jabiru to enable people to share their experiences, talk over problems and find out about organisations and programs that support festivals in a variety of ways.