Festivals

Active participation an emerging trend at Sydney Fringe 2024
Why just watch an arts event when you can take part in it?

Alter State: a celebration of Disability, art and radical care
The Disability-led initiative co-presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and Arts Access Victoria returns to venues across Melbourne in October.

Exploring when art was an Olympic sport (we’re not joking)
Olympic art is medal worthy, plus Parisian lessons for Brisbane 2032.

Castlemaine State Festival's future is secured
After entering voluntary administration earlier this year, Castlemaine State Festival is ready to face the future and preparing to rebuild.

Gertrude Street Projection Festival stumbles
The annual projection festival will not go ahead this year, amid concerns over continued insufficient funding.

Ability Fest returns and expands to Queensland
The music festival with inclusion baked into its DNA returns this October.

Fringe festival furore as state’s US$32 million arts budget vetoed
Fringe festivals have reacted with shock to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ vetoing all arts funding on the basis that some…

Celebrating 10 years of transporting and transformative art and music
Rockhampton River Festival is a stimulating celebration of music, arts and ideas on the banks of the Fitzroy River.

The arts are being sidelined in the cost of living crisis
It’s time we stopped framing the arts as a luxury instead of a human right threatened by the cost of living…

Making it count: Brisbane Festival announces its 2024 program
Brisbane Festival has just 23 days in the year to make an impact, and AD Louise Bezzina is making every…