But as CEO and Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival Centre, Douglas Gautier, notes in Lance Campbell’s Heart of the Arts: The Adelaide Festival Centre at 40 (Wakefield Press, 2013), things have changed.
‘As a rule the most successful and relevant arts centres, anywhere in the world, are those that are not simply “halls for hire”. They are the ones that have chosen to control their own destiny and positioning with a “program and ideas” led approach, to best engage and sustain artists and audiences,’ Gautier says.
