Many of our Australian festivals today can be ridden with bureaucracy, where bold ideas have to battle it out with funding incentives, venue restraints or personal interests.
But what if being disruptive is embedded in the very DNA of a festival?
With a clear agenda to challenge and provoke, the Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) is set out to be exactly that. This year it presents a roster of “hard topics”, ranging from political censorship during a global conflict to the moral responsibility to not have children.