Regional communities connected by Festivals Australia funding

More than $750,000 will be distributed among 18 projects through the Ministry for the Art’s latest funding round.
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Photo: Junction Arts Festival’s The Tweed Run, 2015.

Bermagui’s Four Winds Festival, the Junction Arts Festival in Launceston, and the Denmark Festival of Voice in Western Australia are among 18 events to have shared more than $750,000 in project funding from the Ministry for the Arts.

The projects – which include the Indigenous-focused Boomerang Festival at Byron Bay Bluesfest; the opening ceremony of Artlands Festival 2016; and Oceanarium, a large scale multi-sensory art installation at the Fun4Kids Festival in Warnambool – have been funded through the Festivals Australia program, which assists people living in regional and remote Australia to participate in or attend an arts-driven experience at a festival or community celebration.

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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