News location:

Canberra Today 14°/18° | Friday, March 29, 2024 | Digital Edition | Crossword & Sudoku

Arts market to showcase Australia

Circa,_"As Dreams are Made On,"_Youngmo Choe

THE 10th Australian Performing Arts Market has sold out in record time, with more than 610 delegates to gather in Adelaide later this month.

APAM will host delegates from around the globe at the five-day biennial arts conference, showcasing nearly 50 Australian and New Zealand performing arts companies.

This fast-growing event began in a modest way during the now defunct National Festival of Australian Theatre in Canberra, under the directorship of Robyn Archer, who later picked the market up for the Adelaide Festival, where it has remained. Canberra’s loss having been Adelaide’s gain.

APAM producer Ian Scobie described the event as “the perfect combination of opportunities, artists and networking”.

Attendees will come from 29 countries, including contingents from South America and the UK and, for the first time, delegates from Russia, Ecuador, Chile and Indonesia will attend.

Scobie said he expected representatives from an array of major festival and venues, such as the Edinburgh International Festival and the Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Dublin Dance Festival,  Holland Dance Festival, Sadler’s Wells, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires and The Esplanade in Singapore.

The Department of Foreign Affairs, has funded 15 international of the delegates.

APAM 2012 will be held at the Adelaide Festival Centre from February 26 to March 1.

Featured photo by Chris Herzfeld

Who can be trusted?

In a world of spin and confusion, there’s never been a more important time to support independent journalism in Canberra.

If you trust our work online and want to enforce the power of independent voices, I invite you to make a small contribution.

Every dollar of support is invested back into our journalism to help keep citynews.com.au strong and free.

Become a supporter

Thank you,

Ian Meikle, editor

Helen Musa

Helen Musa

Share this

Leave a Reply

Related Posts

Music

Cunio takes top job at NZ School of Music

Immediate past head of the ANU School of Music, Kim Cunio, is to become head of school at Te Kōki, the NZ School of Music, part of the Victoria University of Wellington, reports HELEN MUSA.

Follow us on Instagram @canberracitynews