For 2009, the festival will run over a ten-day period with two distinct parts - first the Festival Week (5 - 12 November), a series of workshops, talks, screenings and music events; and second, the Festival Weekend (13 - 15 November), where we create a 'temporary community' of our own to explore the festival theme in more depth in a uniquely intimate, focused setting.

The theme for AURORA 2009 is Common Ground. Straying from anthropological or ethnographic studies to oblique explorations of myth and the representation of reality, the theme leads to an entirely literal reading of the 'common ground' in which ecology collides with social history and direct action.

Find out what's on when with the festival diary »