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RISING launches full festival program for June 2025

Melbourne’s winter festival RISING is “proudly challenging and uncompromisingly inclusive,” according to its co-Artistic Directors.

12 Mar 2025 15:52

Richard Watts

All Arts

An earlier iteration of ‘Space-Out Competition’ in Seoul. The free, participatory game comes to Melbourne for RISING 2025. Photo: Supplied.

From a competition designed to celebrate switching your mind off and doing literally nothing, and a previously announced playable art installation exploringing the radical roots of mini-golf (with two more artists announced today: experimental Australian duo Soda Jerk and Hobart-based artist and photographer Pat Brassington), through to an eclectic, alternative live music program, as well as new exhibitions and performances from around Australia and across the world, RISING 2025 has much to offer the discerning arts lover, whatever your tastes or budgets.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts