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Table of contains
Essay (page 3)
Australia(page 4)
National Folk Festival (page 5-6)
National Multicultural Festival (page 7-8)
Fringe Festival (page 8)
Stonefest (page 9)
Skyfire Canberra (page 10-11)
Enlighten Canberra (page 12-13)
Australia Day Live Concert (page 13)
Summernat (page 14)
Worlds Funniest Island(page 15-16)
Tropfest(page 17)
New Zealand (page 18)
Parachute music festival (page 19-20)
Swampfest (page 20)
Womad (page 20)
Timaro Festival of Roses (page 21)
Bannock burn Music Festival (page 21)
Rhythm & Alps (page 22)
Meet the Family (page 22)
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Essay
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History
The festival was first held in Melbourne in 1967- initiated by The Victorian Folk Music
Club, The Monash Traditional Music Society, the Burwood Teachers Folk Club and
performers Martin Wyndham Reed and Glen Tomasetti, it was inspired by the Newport
Folk Festival in the United States From 1969 until 1991 the festival traveled interstate each
year. It was hosted at least once in
Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide,Canberra, Brisbane,Fremantle,Alice Springs,Perth,
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Kurunda and Maleny. The increasing size of the festival made it harder for the hosting
states to organise the festival every year, so since 1992 the festival has been held each year
in Canberra, with a 'feature state' on the program - providing increased performance
opportunities for artists from that state.
Features
The Festival takes place at Exhibition Park in Canberra, which for the duration resembles
a small, vibrant and colourful village full of music and dance venues, cafes, themed bars
and stalls, as well as a unique 'Community Arts' area for demonstrating and workshopping
a range of arts disciplines, as well as the 'Tradition Bearers' demonstration area where
visitors can view the making of a range of Australian craft and purchase unique gifts.
There is a traditional Stockman's Camp that resembles an archetypal bush scenario with
authentic performances and delectable bush-style damper and stew and Billy Tea. Camping
is provided adjacent to the Festival grounds for up to 5,000 people. In 2011 the event was
attended by approx 50,000 people. Upwards of twelve hundred volunteers make the festival
possible.
The festival has over 100 concerts, a film festival, numerous impromptu street
performances, workshops on making, playing and repairing musical instruments, visual
art, storytelling and poetry, and many dance workshops. There are at least 60 craft stalls,
30+ food vendors and 4 delightfully themed bars with dedicated restaurant areas. For the 5
days of the festival, there is also an almost continuous Session in the world-famous "Session
Bar", known as the 'London Underground' of folk music, that only stops briefly due
to alcohol licence restrictions in the early morning and kicks off again in mid morning for
another round the clock session of music and culture.
International and Australian performers are featured, with the organisers firmly
committed to representing the full spectrum of folk/ethnic/Indigenous music.
The festival has an exciting Opening and Closing Concert in the 3,000 seat Budawang
Pavilion - and every night the festival has a grand dance, starting with a Scottish Ball on
the Friday night, an Irish Ceili on the Saturday, and an Australian Colonial Ball on the
Sunday night - as well as a colourful range of diverse dance styles including Latin, Tango,
Flamenco and Contra Dance.
The National Folk Festival features several large permanent indoor venues where concertgoers can enjoy music and performances in all weather conditions.
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The National Multicultural Festival is a free community festival held annually each
February in Canberra.
The first National Multicultural Festival was held in 1981 as a one-day event on Australia
Day hosted by the ACT Ethnic Communities Council. Over 30 years on, the festival has
become one of the most successful multicultural festivals in Australia. The festival is held in
the Canberra summer, and weather is often hot and dry.
The Festival is supported by the ACT Government and is administered by the Office of
Multicultural Affairs an Community Development, a division of the ACT Government
Community Services Directorate.
History
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In 1981, the ACT Ethnic Communities Council held the first Multicultural Festival, a oneday event in Civic to celebrate Australia Day. By 1988, the festival had grown to host about
40 international food stalls, music and dancing. That year it was held in the Civic end of
Ainslie Avenue, and along London Circuit in front of Civic Square, and also included a
parade led by Chinese lion dancers.
In 1997, the newly established ACT Office of Multicultural Affairs staged the first weeklong Festival as a means of celebrating Canberra and Australia's Cultural diversity. In
2010, the Festival became a three-day event and remains that duration.
In 2012, the festival hosted a record 350 stalls. The 2012 festival was also the first to allow
cultural kava use, as a trial. The ACT Government announced in 2013 that the kava trial
had been a success and there would be a permanent lifting of the ban on the drink at the
National Multicultural Festival.
The Out In Canberra People's Choice Awards in 2013 named the National Multicultural
Festival Favourite Attraction and Event.
Weather at the festival is usually hot and dry,
with organisers handing out 18,000 bottles of water to patrons at the 2014 festival.
The festival has grown over time to become one of the most successful multicultural
festivals in Australia The 2014 event reportedly injected $5 million into the ACT economy
and contributed to an additional 10,000 overnight stays in Canberra by interstate and
international visitors.
Fringe Festival
Between 2004 and 2009, the Fringe Festival was a free event forming part of the
Multicultural Festival. In 2009, then Minister for Multicultural Affairs John announced
that the Multicultural Festival would be reduced to a three-day event and the Fringe
Festival moved to become a part of the National Folk Festival.
The 2013 National Multicultural Festival was the first to take place in conjunction with a
fringe festival since 2009. The 2013 Fringe ran for just one night; its budget was allocated
from ACT Government arts funding on a competitive basis.
In 2014 the Fringe Festival continued; that year, the Fringe Festival was directed by Jorian
Gardner, who the ACT Arts and Multicultural Affairs Minister Joy for the position
without a competitive selection process. Jorian Gardner hosted, among other
performances, a Hitler-themed burlesque strip-tease featuring a female dancer dressed as
Hitler with gold wings performing to the song Gangnam Style. The performance attracted
significant controversy, with ACT Opposition Leader Jeremy Hanson calling for Arts and
Multicultural Minister Joy Burch to resign or be sacked for hiring the man who oversaw
the performance, and opposition multicultural affairs spokesperson Giulia Jones labeling
the performance offensive and racist.
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Stonefest
Stonefest - now known as Stone Day - is an annual festival held at the University of
Canberra at the end of October to celebrate the laying of the University's Foundation
Stone. Stone Day is run by UC Live! - the music and live entertainment division of the
University of Canberra Union, who have been responsible for the event for its entire life
span.
History
Stone Day started as a celebration at the University of Canberra held annually to mark the
laying of the foundation stone by Prime Ministre John Gorton on 28 October 1968. This
founded the Canberra College of Advanced Education, which became the University of
Canberra in 1990.
The first foundation celebrations were held in 1971. In 1973 Stone Day celebrations were
held over two days, which was expanded to take up a whole week in 1976. In the 1980s and
1990s Stoneweek became a popular Canberra entertainment event. In the 1990s it was
given themes such as "Return to Woodstock", "Circus", "Back to the Beach", "Alien
Abduction", "Oktoberfest", "Halloween" and "Stoneage". In the year 2000 the festival
became Stonefest.
For many years Stonefest was the largest music festival in Canberra and a popular one
in Australia. In recent years other festivals have made their way onto the Canberra scene,
including Groovin' The Moo (also on the University of Canberra Campus) and Foreshore
Summer Music Festival, contributing to declining numbers for Stonefest. In 2012,
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organisers made the decision to return the festival to its roots as a University celebration,
re-branding the event as Stone Day, giving it a fresh new look and feel and returning tickets
to the student-friendly price of $25.
Skyfire (Canberra)
Skyfire is an annual March fireworks show held over Lake Burley
Griffin in Canberra, Australia since 1989. The event is funded by local radio station FM
104.7, and the display is synchronised to a soundtrack of music broadcast on the station.
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shooting comets". One barge shot off a few more fireworks for 510 minutes after the show
completed.
On 19 March 2011 around 80,000 people attended Skyfire. That year over 30 youths were
taken into custody by police for underage drinking at the event. The following year, 130
police were employed to patrol Skyfire, and youth reception stations were set up at the
event. The 2012 event featured more than 2500 aerial fireworks.
Skyfire 25 in 2013 featured displays by the Royal Australian Navy, the Federation Guard
and the Snowy Hydro Rescue Helicopter.
Skyfire in 2014 utilised around 3000 individual cues and approximately eight kilometres of
cabling.
Enlighten Canberra
Enlighten Canberra is an outdoor annual art and cultural festival featuring illuminating
light installations and projections, performances from local and interstate musicians,
dining and film events.
The festival is an ACT Government initiative held annually in early March, encouraging
people to "See Canberra in a whole new light." The centrepiece of Enlighten Canberra is
the illuminating of Canberra's cultural institutions after dark, including Old Parliament
House, Questacon and the National Gallery of Australia. There is also live music, film
screenings and after-hours tours.
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Since its inception, Enlighten has become increasingly popular, attracting 115,000 visitors
in 2013, and 131,500 in 2014, despite poor weather.
bring their own food, table, table-setting and chair. More than 700 people attended the
picnic, the third Dner en Blanc to be held in Australia.
The creative director for Enlighten 2014 was Peter Milne, he had also worked on the 2000
Sydney Olympic Games and the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
In November 2014, the ACT Government announced the Night Noodle Markets would be
coming to Canberra during the Enlighten Festival in 2015.
ACT Tourism Minister Andrew Bar told media that Canberra's Night Noodle Markets
were expected to host up to 25 hawker style food stalls,
and that the ACT Government had committed $200,000 to bring the 2015 noodle markets
to the city. Around 156,000 peoples visited the inaugural Enlighten Night Noodle Markets
of whom 24,000 visited on the opening night.
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The concert is an after 5pm event and goes into the night. The concert includes tributes to
the outgoing Australians of the Year with songs chosen by the previous Australians of the
Year. This is followed by the Australian of the Year Awards ceremony.
Once the Awards ceremony is complete, the concert continues with each artist performing a
full set of music.
Summernat
Summernats, short for Summer Nationals, is a car festival held
in Canberra, Australia since 1987. Summernats is held annually, usually at the start of the
year. Summernats is the best known car festival in Australia, and an event which attracts
many tourists to Canberra, bringing about $12$15 million to the ACT economy. It has
increasingly been promoted as an event for families. The Summernats attendance record
was set in 2005 with 119,000 people.
Summernats features many street machines with airbrushed artwork, and restored and
modified cars. It is held over a four-day period, with many events, with prizes in
competitions such as for burnouts, parades of cars around the track, a Miss Summernats
competition, and fireworks at night.
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Worlds Funniest Island was an Australian comedy event held on the third weekend in
October on Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour. The first Worlds Funniest Island event
took place 1718 October 2009. It consisted of approximately 200 shows and involving over
250 performers in 12 indoor venues, and three outdoor stages, playing to 12,000
punters.The team behind Worlds Funniest Island is John Pinder, Director; Nick Murray,
CEO Jigsaw Entertainment;Michael Chugg and Matthew Lazarus Hall, Chugg
Entertainment; and Greg James, Investor and Chairman of the Board. The Executive
Producer of Worlds Funniest Island is Gina Hall. Mark Ford was Executive Producer of
the 2009 event.John Pinder has worked extensively in the comedy industry, having begun
as a venue owner and producer of both music and comedy events. He was the founding
director of both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Big Laugh Comedy
Festival in Western Sydney, and had a hand in founding the Comedy Channel. Pinder
worked Nick Murray, both during Murrays time as founding CEO of the Comedy
Channel, and in the production of a number of comedy shows for stage and television.
Michael Chugg is an agent, manager and concert promoter.
History
Cockatoo Island, situated at the mouth of the Parramatta and the Lane Cove Rivers, is the
largest island in Sydney Harbour. Having served as a colonial prison from 1839 and then as
the Commonwealth Naval Dockyard from 1913, it was opened to the public in 2008.
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Shortly before being declared public parkland, a handful of people involved with the
Australian comedy industry undertook a private tour of the island and recognised its
potential as the ideal space for a comedy event. It offered unique indoor and outdoor spaces
including dozens of heritage-listed buildings that once served the islands specific needs as
a prison and then a dockyard as well as breathtaking views of the Sydney skyline and
Sydney Harbour. Its location, a short ferry ride from central Sydney made Cockatoo Island
a perfect events location. The Island has also hosted two music festivals, most recently one
curated by Nick Cave - All Tomorrows Parties. The island is an important location for
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The Biennale of Sydney, the citys major contemporary art event.The second World's
Funniest Island event, slated for 1617 October 2010, was cancelled due to a sponsorship
shortfall.[2]News of the event's cancellation appeared on 6 October.
Format
Unlike traditional comedy festivals, Worlds Funniest Island is an event loosely built on the
weekend music festival template, with several stages and indoor venues operating
concurrently. A single ticket offers unlimited access to the various shows and include
transport to and from the island via a ferry service operating all day from Darling
Harbour, in Sydneys CBD. There are also a number of bars, food and market stalls
operating during the festival. In 2010 a camping package will be available for Friday,
Saturday and Sunday night.
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Venues
The venues on the island vary in size and shape, catering to a wide variety of comedy shows
and audiences. The Turbine Hall, for example, is a large capacity venue presenting acts that
require space for audiences of 2000 plus. In 2009 acts in The Turbine Hall included The
Goodies (UK), Alexei Sayle (UK) and Allah Made Me Funny (USA). Some venues are
programmed around a theme. For example, in 2009 the Naval Store offered a selection of
Australian acts that had begun life as university revues. That same year, other venues were
run as extensions of independent Sydney comedy rooms, with the General Store operating
as Comedy On The Edge and the Bomb Shelter, as the Laugh Garage Comedy Club. The
complete list of venues and the acts that performed in them in 2009 are listed below.
Programming
The Worlds Funniest Island presents a wide range of comedy genres, including stand-up,
sketch shows, circus, musical comedy, comic burlesque, movie parodies, comic literary
readings, plays, and roving entertainment. There are also exhibitions, workshops and some
participation activities designed for adults and children.Artists are selected by the
producers. The event is not an open fringe style festival.
Tropfest
Tropfest is the world's largest short film festival. It has also become known as the world's
first global film festival.
Tropfest began in 1993 as a screening for 200 people in a cafe in Sydney but has since
become the largest platform for short films in the world. Tropfest Australia takes place in
December each year and is broadcast live to an audience of approximately 150,000. The
main event takes place in Sydney but live satellite events are also staged in Melbourne
Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide Hobart, Perth and other cities. The event is broadcast live on
television by SBS Two and webcast to viewers around Australia and the world.Tropfest has
expanded to locations around the world including Japan, Turkey, Africa, Abu Dhabi
, London, Berlin,Toronto , Bangkok, and New York. The inaugural Tropfest Arabia,
encompassing approximately 33 countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa,
took place in Abu Dhabi in November 2011. Tropfest launched into the United States in
June 2012, with a weekend-long event in Las Vegas and a fully-fledged Tropfest New York
competition in New York on 23 June 2012 at Manhattan's Bryanr Park. Tropfest New
Zealand launched in 2013 and Tropfest South East Asia atPenang, Malaysia in 2014.
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Tropfest differs from other cinema events by being a "content generation" platform, rather
than an exhibition platform. Filmmakers are required to create new works for the
festival which must include an item, known as the "Tropfest Signature Item" (TSI) and
which changes each year. The films must be less than 7 minutes (including titles and
credits) and be world premieres at the Tropfest event.
Tropfest's prize pool is one of the richest in the short film arena, and includes international
trips to develop filmmaking careers and "work experience" with top filmmakers. As a
result, Tropfest has become known as a launch pad for filmmaking careers, although to
date this has been most notable in Australia, where many commercial and critical successes
are directed by Tropfest alumni.
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The Parachute Music Festival was a Christian music festival held annually at Mystery
Creek Events Centre,Hamilton, New Zealand, between 1992 - 2014. The festival was run
by Parachute Music and usually lasted for three nights and four days. It was held the
weekend before Auckland Anniversary Day, in late January. 'Parachute' was one of the
largest Christian music festivals outside of the United States and it was one of the largest
multi-day festivals in the Southern Hemisphere. Primarily featuring musicians and guest
speakers, the festival was also the longest running festival of any kind in New Zealand. The
Parachute Music Festival attracted around 25,000 people each year. The largest crowd
came in 2007, with 27,813 attendees. Most people who attend stay on-site in tents and
caravans, and a large village area supplies food, amenities and band merchandise. Each
year artists apply to play at Parachute which gives an opportunity for musicians to have
their music heard by a large audience at a popular event. Bands applying must have a
pastoral reference, that is a reference from a church leader, to ensure that the core
members of any act are committed Christians. In some cases individual members of a band
will not be Christian but Parachute see this as a good way to involve people in the festival
community. While many local bands from New Zealand apply, Parachute receive
applications from all over the world. Parachute Music also invite a number of headline
artists each year to perform at the festival. Around 100 bands from many different genres
play at Parachute each year. The festival is aimed at a wide demographic ranging from
families to teenagers. It is classified as a non-denominational Christian event, with enforced
bans on drugs or alcohol and unmarried couples being discouraged from tenting together.
However, a large percentage of non-Christian people do attend. Because Parachute is
a non-denominational Christian festival, events such as Catholic Mass and Anglican
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Eucharist take place over the weekend.The Festival is covered by most New Zealand media
and is a well known event of the New Zealand summer. It has also been supported by and
has been in partnerships with a number of businesses and organisations - Some examples
are Coca-Cola, Sanitarium, V, Pepsi, Vodafone and The NZ Police.Parachute is often in
partnerships with charities such as, World Vision. Parachute Music have been working
with World Vision since 2006 to sponsor a village inRwanda called Tubehoneza. Over the
last six festivals, festival-goers have donated $303,000 to the area. This money has been
used to build five water tanks, three classrooms,a maternity unit and a health centre for
Tubehoneza. Also through the festival 1,900 children have been sponsored.
Swampfest
WOMAD
WOMAD - World of Music, Arts and Dance is an internationally established festival which
brings together artists from all over the globe to celebrate music, arts and dance. The threeday festival is held at the TSB Bowl of Brooklands, a natural outdoor amphitheatre and its
surrounding gardens. One child under 12 receives free entry with each paying adult.
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Linkers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_festivals_in_Australia
http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/festivals-inaustralia
http://www.eventfinda.com.au/music-festivals/events/australia
http://www.aatravel.co.nz/101/search/location/New-Zealand/category/Festivalsand-Events/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_music_festivals
http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-australian-musicfestivals.html
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