With the end of the Sydney Festival 2021, the tenure of the mercurial, wonderful Wesley Enoch as its Artistic Director has finished.
Appointed in early June 2020 the new Artistic Director is Australian curator and producer OIivia Ansell. Ansell came …
Sydney Festival has unveiled its thought-provoking program of talks, panels and workshops, partnering with The Walkley Foundation, Sydney Writers Festival and UTS to present some of the country’s most celebrated and incisive journalists, writers and thinkers, adding to the …
Surrounded by 250 Aboriginal flags symbolising Captain Cook’s arrival 250 years ago, The Vigil took place on the eve of Australia Day with some people staying until the dawn of 26th January.
After a parade of elders into the campfire …
Featured image: AquaSonic (Photo by Per Victor) https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2018/aquasonic
SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2018 Director Wesley Enoch is infectious. Infected by the love of ideas, performance and ‘better angels’. Enoch says of next year’s festival, “Artists are here creating more and more ways …
A very exciting and vibrant discussion chaired by Fenella Kernebone who led the panel of Rachel Healy (Adelaide Festival) and Wesley Enoch (Sydney Festival) and Fergus Linehan (Edinburgh International Festival) and asks why we put on festivals, what they offer …
The 2017 Festival features 150 events, almost half of which are free. The Festival’s program was recently unveiled by Wesley Enoch, the Festival’s new and first indigenous Artistic Director at the State Theatre on 26 October 2016.
Big ticket items …
This second passionate and inspiring discussion, part of the current Culture Club forum series, saw Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director Stephen Page and Sydney Festival’s next Artistic Director Wesley Enoch in conversation with Caroline Baum about contemporary cultural moments relying …
Sydney Festival has announced that Wesley Enoch as the incoming Festival Director for a three-year tenure from 2017-2019. He will take the reins from Lieven Bertels, who completes his term in 2016, marking the Festival’s 40th anniversary.
Wesley is currently …
What a great story for a leading Australian theatre company like the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) to tell at this time! And what timing! Whilst the show was still playing, on Australia’s Day, Koori AFL star Adam Goodes was announced …