Festivals

Am I
Am I is a journey of the senses, a dreamy, tolling experience to be enjoyed, not over-analysed

Merger fears fester in Adelaide
A mooted merger between the Adelaide Festival and the Festival Centre would fundamentally change the city's arts ecology.

Urthboy - Make Me A Mixtape
Urthboy curates an entertaining, if scattershot, offering on the final night of the Melbourne Festival.

Arts Festivals: same same but different
How do you program an international arts festival, and are two festivals ever the same?

Headdresses ruffle festival feathers
Music festivals are banning Native American headdresses, concerned that the fashion item is offensive cultural theft.

Give the audience what they don’t want
Brian Ritchie, Violent Femmes bassist and curator of MONA FOMA, gave this keynote address at the recent Regional Arts Australia…

Why Melbourne needs a circus festival
A handful of shows in the Melbourne Festival or Fringe is not enough; the art form needs a dedicated festival…

What makes a festival a festival?
Festivals are not just about the presentation of work: they celebrate communities.

Adelaide Fringe Director to step down after 2015 festival
Chief Executive and Director Greg Clarke will move back to Sydney following his fifth and final Fringe.

Adelaide Fringe Cultural Fund awards $30,000
Companies from Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide have been awarded $10,000 each in the Fund’s inaugural grants round.