The habit of using our phones while at a summer music festival can negatively impact our experiences.
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Despite the diversity of art and performance on display at the tenth Ten Days on the Island festival, key themes emerge: life, death, and Tasmania’s colonial history.
Live performances account for more than 40 percent of their income, while profits from streaming and record sales amount to only 5 percent of their earnings.
Halloween walks a thin line between entertainment and offence - so how can we engage with it ethically?
Recent developments mean that touting on an industrial scale could become more difficult.
Wellies at the ready, these researchers have been digging up the truth about the festival business.
If intelligently managed, festivals attract substantial numbers of LGBT tourists to regional and rural destinations, injecting additional income into the local economies.
Urban festivals built on community involvement can reinvigorate places and create a shared sense of place and purpose that lasts long after the event is over.
Artworks in The Big Anxiety festival in Sydney shine a light on life from an autistic point of view, emphasising sensory experience.
Kuro Tanino’s Dark Inn is a contemporary take on traditional Japanese theatre, contemplating the darkness of desire.
Fifty years of the Caribbean Carnival in Toronto has had a significant impact on Canada’s cultural institutions. It’s also helped educate Canadians about Black history.
The annual Burning Man Festival creates a temporary city in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. In many ways, it’s an innovation lab for rethinking cities.
Science festivals are booming and with their mixture of music and art they are opening the field to a whole new audience who are keen to be amazed.
Media reports tend to link violence to illicit drugs when alcohol is far more likely to be to blame.
The graphic novel has become a literary phenomenon, but the name doesn’t adequately describe the medium’s flexibility, diversity and potential.
Outside the capital cities and the coastal fringes, the towns and people of rural and regional Australia have had to be inventive to get through the tough times.
Subculture is on the decline, according to many pundits. But a trip to Whitby on certain weekends would demonstrate otherwise.
In creativity, skill and daring, the productions on offer embodied an energy and imagination comparable to, and at times exceeding, anything prestigious European-focused international festivals might present.
From a dancer moving against a wash of static, to a show that takes the audience hostage, Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival celebrates both high art and high energy performances.
From music festivals to motor racing –commercial events are taking over public parks. Here’s what can be done.
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba
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Associate professor, Victoria University
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Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Human Geography, University of Sydney
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Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, The University of Western Australia
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Professor in Management,, University of Glasgow
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Research Associate, University of Manchester
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Professor in High Medieval History, Durham University
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Dean, Boston Conservatory
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Reader In French Cinema, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
