The government policy represents a sizable shift from a past emphasis on funding areas of the arts that experience market failure to a system designed to make proactive investment in commercially viable projects and align the arts with other government initiatives.
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The blueprint for a community-led festival already exists in the way Splendour patrons interact with each other. Perhaps it’s time we wave goodbye to the profit-minded model of Australian festivals, and move towards one which cares for the people who attend them. And, more urgently, one which cares for the land they inhabit.
Josie Gibson on the unique demands of young creative life
