$50,000 tourism grant for Melbourne Festival

Tourism Victoria has provided the Festival with funding to deliver interstate and overseas marketing activities.
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Image: Tourism and Major Events Minister Louise Asher nominated Dislocate’s If These Walls Could Talk as a festival highlight. Photo: Tim Elliot, design by Simon Strong.

The 2014 Melbourne Festival will be marketed interstate and overseas with the assistance of a $50,000 grant through Tourism Victoria’s Events Program, Tourism and Major Events Minister Louise Asher announced on Tuesday. 

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts