Under the radar arts regions

Instead of heading to a major festival in Sydney, Perth or Adelaide this summer, why not head off the beaten track?
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Image: Mullum Circus Festival (via Facebook)

While the critical masses of artists living and working in our major cities, coupled with the programming nous of our leading festival directors and their teams, results in often remarkable work, you don’t have to visit a capital city to have a fantastic arts experience. Across Australia, artists gather, dream, inspire and create – often in areas where you might not necessarily expect to find art happening en masse, such as in former steel cities and the country’s desert heart.

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Richard Watts OAM 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, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts