Still Life, Our Life: Emotions across Time, Art and Place : the Zest Festival, June 2012

Abstract

On a June day 300 years ago, the Dutch trading ship, Zuytdorp, sank off the Western Australian coast near Kalbarri - and the event is being marked with a new and exciting festival aptly named Zest. The Zest Festival will operate over five years, taking Kalbarri and nearby communities to the 400th anniversary of the landing of Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog, who had arrived safely in the Kalbarri/Shark Bay area in 1616 - 96 years before the sinking of the Zuytdorp.