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Art News' List of Links to Arts Festivals in Australia
http://www.artnews.com.au/festivals.htm

Adelaide Festival of Arts
Diverse art from across Australia and around the world. Held in South Australia in the autumn in every ‘even’ year. Each Festival program includes opera, theatre, dance, classical and contemporary music, cabaret, new media events, Adelaide Writers’ Week (the largest literary festival in the world), outdoor entertainment, visual arts exhibitions, master classes, forums, a late night club and much more.
http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/

Adelaide Fringe 2007
Adelaide Fringe is Australia's biggest arts festival, and the second biggest Fringe in the world.
http://www.adelaidefringe.com.au/

Alice Desert Festival
The Alice Desert Festival will feature over 65 events including cabaret, dance, theatre and cinema that showcases the diversity of desert arts and the lifestyle of Central Australia. Back again this year is the HUB space, a fenced-off space decorated by some of our best visual artists. The HUB space is set to bring out the best in performances, workshops and visual displays.
http://www.alicedesertfestival.com.au

The Big Day Out
http://www.bigdayout.com/

Brisbane Festival
Brisbane’s foremost international multi-arts festival, offering an outstanding program of theatre, dance, music, opera, multimedia, visual arts and free community events for the residents of Brisbane and its visitors. Held biennially, the Festival endeavours to include the entire community in its program of activities by having intellectual rigour, international artistic credibility and an extremely broad grass roots support base. Consequently, Brisbane Festival is about a lot more than just putting on shows … It encourages engagement and participation from everyone in the greater community across our great city, country and the globe!
http://www.brisbanefestival.com.au

Bruthen Blues and Arts Festival
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bruthen/blues/blueshome.html

Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals
http://www.festivals.on.net/

d/Art Festival
D/Lux/MediaArts' annual showcase of international video, mobile, and web art.
http://www.dlux.org.au/

Digital Fringe Festival
http://www.digitalfringe.com.au
An open access public arts festival that places contemporary screen based media in public locations. It provides artists with access to an extensive network of hundreds of public screens and non-traditional audiences throughout Australia and the world. Screening venues receive a playlist curated from the diverse visual works of animation, abstract, video art, short film, machinima, motion graphics, photography and stills submitted to the Digital Fringe festival via our website. In keeping with the Fringe Festival charter, Digital Fringe is open access and accessible to emerging and established artists, particularly those working in screen based and new media. Submissions are received from all around the world: from professional artists to bedroom doodlers and everybody in between. Screening venues range from busy bars and cafes, bustling shopping centres, walls of TV's in electrical stores, State and regional libraries, art galleries, and cultural institutions, suburban shop fronts and on massive urban screens in public plazas like Melbourne's Federation Square.
http://www.digitalfringe.com.au

Escape Artfest
(formerly Tabula Rasa Contemporary Arts Festival)
An annual community arts festival celebrating the diversity of arts in the region
http://www.escapeartfest.info.

Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival
Features prominent folk musicians from around Australia, as well as buskers, dancers, music workshops and folk dances. The Festival wil feature new local talent and has a special focus on schools and schoolchildren.
http://www.kvfolk.shoalhaven.info/

Manly Arts Festival
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Visual arts events will include the Surreal Human Sculpture. 500 volunteers will assemble at Manly Beach to be part of Andrew Baines’s human sculpture entitled 'The first edition' which is a comment on people’s obsession with knowing the latest news.
http://www.manlyartsfestival.com/

Melbourne Fringe Festival
27 September - 15 October
The Melbourne Fringe Festival aims to bring the most contemporary, innovative and trend-setting work created and presented by independent artsts to the broader Melbourne audience. Featuring local and international artists, the Festival is also an opportunity for the training of participants in every aspect of arts management, production, marketing and creativity.
http://www.melbournefringe.com.au

Melbourne International Arts Festival
One of Australia's leading international arts festivals and has an outstanding reputation for presenting unique international and Australian events in the fields of dance, theatre, music, visual arts, music theatre, multimedia, free and outdoor events over 17 days each October.
http://www.melbournfestival.com.au.

Mildura/Wentworth Arts Festival
http://www.mwaf.com.au/

Moorambilla
An annual community choral festival, where choirs and musicians from Sydney and regional NSW come together to create new Australian works for community participation. http://www.moorambilla.com/

Next Wave Festival
http://www.nextwave.org.au

Perth International Arts Festival
UWA Perth International Arts Festival
Australia's oldest and largest annual arts festival
February-March
http://www.perthfestival.com.au/

PHOTO: International Festival of Photography
April-–May
http://photo.org.au

Sculpture by the Sea
Bondi Beach
http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/exhibitions/bondi.aspx

The Sound of Failure
Sound art festival
Sydney, Australia
Bookings: http://factorytheatre.com.au
Website: http://SoundOfFailure.com

Sydney Festival
Australia's largest and most attended annual cultural event. Presents the very best international and national performing and visual arts, occupying most of Sydney's theatres, galleries and concert halls, as well as specially created satellite venues throughout the city and surrounds.

Sydney Festival
L2, 10 Hickson Road
The Rocks NSW 2000
Sydney
t +61 2 8248 6500
f +61 2 8248 6599
mail@sydneyfestival.org.au
http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au

Tasmania Festival
Ten Days on the Island
Known as Australia's Island State, Tasmania is actually an archipelago of more than three hundred islands, a land of ancient and dramatic histories containing vast tracts of pristine wilderness and World Heritage locations. This festival explores the cultural uniqueness of islands presenting international artists from exotic island locations alongside Australia’s finest talent.
http://www.tendaysontheisland.org
t 61 3 6233 5700
info@tendaysontheisland.org
f 61 3 6233 5830
http://www.discovertasmania.com.au
http://www.arts.tas.gov.au

This Is Not Art Festival
Australia’s premier independent arts and new media festival held in Newcastle each year over the October long weekend, dedicated to showcasing the work and ideas of communities not included in other major festivals, highlighting emerging trends and providing national networking opportunities for niche communities and the highly curious. For five days conference venues and re-invigorated shop spaces around Newcastle’s Civic Precinct come alive with panels, workshops, artists’ presentations, forums, exhibitions, performances and gigs (most of them free). People from across Australia come together to: get their hands dirty with emerging electronic arts and music craziness (Electrofringe); explore The Word via comics, hip-hop, comedy, storytelling, spoken word, blogging (National Young Writers Festival); churn up independent media making mayhem (National Student & Emerging Media Conference); skillshare with independent music label provocateurs (Sound Summit); stimulate debate at the activist and eco-awareness forum (Earthling); or check out research, new visions and posturings by critical & creative writing students (Critical Animals).

TiN Radio (online at http://www.tin.org.au) will focus on festival content and feature artists and events, empty main-street shopfronts will be transformed by extravagant art installations, night-time streetscapes will be shadowed under audio-visual projections. And there’s a host of events and activities which haven’t been dreamt up yet.
http://www.thisisnotart.org/

Wangaratta Festival of Jazz
November
Since inception in 1990, the festival has grown to include 90 events and over 350 national and international artists performing each year. The Wangaratta Festival of Jazz also hosts the National Jazz Awards, Youth Jazz Workshops, Masterclasses and events throughout Wangaratta and surrounding wine regions.
http://www.wangaratta-jazz.org.au

Yaamma Festival
The theme of the festival is to unite the community by reconnecting with the spirit, soul, heart, mind and body of the land.
http://www.yaammafestival.org/home.htm