Melbourne venues unite to host inaugural Festival of Live Art

Arts House, Theatre Works and Footscray Community Arts Centre will join forces for a major new collaboration in March 2014.
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Tristan Meecham’s Game Show. Photo: Jeff Busby. Design: Chris More.

Presented in six venues across four suburbs, Melbourne’s first ever Festival of Live Art (FOLA) will feature more than 35 events, ranging from large productions to small scale works for one audience member at a time. There will be performances on the phone, in the street and on websites, with opportunities to listen, learn, discuss, observe, participate and create.  

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Richard Watts 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 and a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts