Discrimination alleged as board suspends festival GM

The general manager of Adelaide's Feast Festival has been suspended just five weeks before the festival.

20 Sep 2016

Richard Watts

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The LGBTI festival begins on 21 October but looks likely to do so without a general manager or several board members .

The board has suspended General Manager Cassandra Liebeknecht on full pay. It has so far declined to give a public reason for the suspension.

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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