Recently appointed NSW Minister for Arts, Night Time Economy and Music, Jobs and Tourism, John Graham addressed a roomful of gallery and museum directors, cultural entrepreneurs and technologists at the opening of REMIX Summit yesterday (8 June), with the message: ‘I believe it’s now time to focus on the people in our creative sector, and it’s time to make the change from a traditional arts policy to a creative industries policy.’
While such statements had a level of bureaucratic zeal to them, the Minister’s passion for the fight for nighttime industries, for reviving the music sector in the state – including celebrating a new law enabling anyone to freely hang a mirror ball – as well as new modes of storytelling, had a freshness that was in sync with the global emergence of immersive entertainment driving cities.
