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Free jab bundle with music fest

With big crowds in close proximity, festival organisers are finding ways to ensure a COVID-safe environment.

30 Sep 2021

Celina Lei

Performing Arts

Can free jabs break the dawn for music festivals? Image: courtesy of Danny Howe on Unsplash.

Since the launch of #VAXTHENATION, performance organisers and artists have been encouraging Australians to get vaccinated through a variety of approaches. Recently the Savannah in the Round Festival, a country music event hosted in tropical Cairns is spearheading the initiative to partner with Queensland Health and become the first Australian music festival offering free COVID jabs.

The pop-up vaccination hub will be open for all patrons from 8:00am until 4:00pm on Friday 1 October, kickstarting the festivities with a reminder that this is all it takes to bring back live events.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.