New Annual Festival is ‘very much about Newcastle stories and Newcastle talent,’ Festival Director Tory Loudon tells ArtsHub.
Loudon credits influential festival This is Not Art (TiNA), which ran from 2000 to 2024 (and grew out of earlier festivals the National Student Media Conference and the National Young Writers Festival, established in 1998), and later the Renew Newcastle movement, with helping generate the vibrant artistic culture which now helps sustain New Annual. ‘That’s the foundation, absolutely,’ she says.
