Festival Programming / Curation / Production / Talent Management
Produced by Fairfax Media, Spectrum Now is an annual 16-day festival with events encompassing art, music, stage and talks. The festival culminates in a 13-day stint at the Domain including a range of gourmet food, bars and free entertainment as well as a ticketed 2500 capacity big top venue. Outside of the Domain, over 100 independent arts events and shows take part in the festival as well as a range of produced talks and other co-produced events. The Domain saw over 50,000 attendees across the festival period with the satellite talks events attracting over 2,000 ticket holders across 5 events.
Highlights:
Produced by Fairfax Media, Spectrum Now is an annual 16-day festival with events encompassing art, music, stage and talks. The festival culminates in a 13-day stint at the Domain including a range of gourmet food, bars and free entertainment as well as a ticketed 2500 capacity big top venue. Outside of the Domain, over 100 independent arts events and shows take part in the festival as well as a range of produced talks and other co-produced events. The Domain saw over 50,000 attendees across the festival period with the satellite talks events attracting over 2,000 ticket holders across 5 events.
Highlights:
- Programming of 13 nights of free live music from bluegrass to latin jazz and big bands. Acts included Hi Tops Brass Band, Malo Malo, The Pigs.
- A two-weekend program of kids and family entertainment including live music, science demonstrations, art and drama workshops and special events including a Mardi Gras 'Rainbow Picnic' and the 'Kinderling Kids Radio Danceteria'.
- Tour coordination and production for Marie's Crisis - a performance group from New York performing live musical theatre sing-a-longs at QT Hotel - and Robert Bose's 'Balloon Chain' art installation.
- Special one-off free events including 'The Music of "O Brother Where Art Thou"' presented by Bluegrass band The Morrisons and the 'Marie's Crisis pop up at the Domain', a live broadway sing-a-long in conjunction with the Hayes Theatre Co. and Maries Crisis, with guests including David Campbell, Tom Sharrah, Casey Donovan.
- Overseeing roaming and circus entertainment in conjunction with programming team Holler & Haul.
- A ticketed Big Top line up of music and comedy including Missy Higgins, Birds of Tokyo, Rockwiz Live, The Workaholics, Hot Dub Time Machine, The Jesus & Mary Chain.
- Producing a series of 4 talks at the AGNSW - 'Cultural Crush' and 'Pillow Talk' - with guests including Leigh Sales, Annabel Crabb, Benjamin Law, David & Lisa Campbell, Richard Tognetti & Satu Vanska, David & Kristin Williamson and Bruce Beresford.
