Festival impresario Ben Graetz remembers dressing up as a rollerskating mosquito for Darwin's annual parade when he was a kid.
Back then, it was part of the Bougainvillea Festival, and Graetz's tradie dad would lend his truck to be transformed into a parade float each year.
The event has since evolved into the Darwin Festival, and Graetz has been appointed its next director, making him the only First Nations artistic director of a major city arts festival and the event's first homegrown leader.
