RISING Co-Artistic Directors Hannah Fox and Gideon Obarzanek could be forgiven for feeling a trifle anxious about their 2022 festival, given that COVID forced its outright cancellation in 2020 and shut down RISING’s 2021 iteration after a single night.
The pair are especially proud of the fact that RISING is creating employment opportunities for hundreds of Australian artists, many of whom struggled to find work in the worst months of the pandemic.
