The inaugural La Mama Festival of Mother Tongues has just opened (12-24 November 2024), a multilingual live performance season with 18 shows conducted in 14 languages aside from English, including Farsi, Persian, Sicilian, Marathi, Spanish, Filipino, Wathaurong, Italian, Polish, French, Māori, Greek, Mandarin and Macedonian. It’s a festival specifically set aside to celebrate the diversity of languages and cultures.
As reported last March, La Mama is going on hiatus next year to review its business operation. So now is the time to catch up with this two-week festival that will take place across four Carlton venues – HQ, Courthouse, COASIT and Motley Bauhaus – before the year ends.
