News is out that Canberra’s newest festival, “Uncharted Territory”, will take place in July, but there’s no detail, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has announced that the event, not the first time Canberra has had a go at a winter festival, would “showcase a fusion of ideas, entrepreneurship and creativity from some of Canberra’s most formidable minds and talents.”
Over 10 days from July 7 to 16, he said, “Uncharted Territory” would bring together creative thinkers, innovators and artists to generate and present “original, purposeful and progressive ideas.”
A collaboration between local innovators, creatives, businesses and community organisations, he said, it promised to become one of Canberra’s principal seasonal events encouraging locals and visitors to explore “uniquely Canberra experiences,” and would be “a launchpad for the emerging and a platform for the courageous.”
Festival events, he said, take place in and around ANU’s cultural precinct Kambri and around the city.
The announcement is depressingly vague and, as often happens when a government plans a festival, the name is unenticing, with the threat of worthiness hanging over it in its present description.
It is to be hoped that festival director, announced some months ago as Yolande Norris and whose name is mysteriously absent from the Chief Minister’s announcement, will be able to generate more excitement when the program is “revealed soon.”
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