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Summer festival season heats up as programs launch nationwide

Adelaide, Perth and Sydney Festivals launched their 2024 programs this week, with Mona Foma waiting eagerly in the wings.

27 Oct 2023 14:12

Richard Watts

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‘Baleen Moondjan’ at Adelaide Festival. Photo: Daniel Boud.

As the end of the year draws ever closer (how on earth is it nearly November already?) some of the country’s major arts festivals have just launched their programs for 2024.

Here, we take a brief overview of some of the impending cultural highlights of early 2024, as a companion piece to our ongoing coverage of 2024 season announcements from performing arts companies around the country.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former 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 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts

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