Festivals
Regional festivals: community is key in an increasingly crowded market
From Castlemaine to Tennant Creek, regional arts festivals are flourishing, and maintaining a community focus is paramount to their success.
Proximity Festival
Some pieces in this interactive festival of one-on-one theatre are profound, while others are amusing without purpose.
Inclusivity Arts fundamental to a creative economy
The British Council is ideally placed to draw on the UK’s global leadership in Inclusivity arts policy and practice.
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…