We invite all those interested, including local community members and official TAC Festival and Conference participants, to attend the Banquet and get to know one another. A Banquet highlight will be the Festival Keynote Address by Dr. Eske Willerslev, distinguished evolutionary geneticist from the University of Cambridge and Copenhagen University, presenting on his ground-breaking evolutionary genetics work, with a focus on what DNA tells us about early human population movements and relationships. This talk brings the audience the most up-to-date information about the spread of humans around the planet from our original home in Africa.