Mural makeover for Darwing with Street Art festival decorating Top End city

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A street art festival hosted across Darwin has delivered a colourful makeover to city buildings and walls. Around 25 murals have been painted across the Top End city during a three-week event that's included international collaborations.

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00:00From Mexico's Day of the Dead to Darwin's local market delicacies, the streets of this

00:07remote tropical city are exploding with color.

00:11Angie and I decided to come up with the concept to kind of bring some culture from Mexico

00:16and California out here.

00:18I just love to be able to share something from back home around the world.

00:24Over the past three weeks of the Darwin Street Art Festival, 25 new murals have appeared

00:29across the city.

00:30While most of the artists are from Darwin and across Australia, this year's event has attracted

00:35international interest.

00:37So we've got three artists over from LA that we worked with in Venice Beach.

00:41So we worked with them there and then we brought them back over here so they can learn more

00:45about the territory, see the territory, spread the word of the territory and then bring some

00:49of this LA artwork here.

00:51An opportunity to share artworks and the stories behind them.

00:54You can pretty much walk around here and find murals that are comparable with something

01:02you're going to find in a major capital city worldwide, which is pretty remarkable.

01:09In addition to bringing the world to Darwin, this year's festival takes Darwin to the world.

01:14The festival concludes tonight with an outdoor digital art exhibition, shown both here in

01:18the city's CBD and in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

01:22It's a collaboration for the 60 year diplomatic relationship between Australia and Kenya.

01:28For us it's a really big, I guess, step to having an international presence.

01:33New ground for a festival painting Darwin in a new light.

01:36This year

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