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Hatching a plan

Festivals – they’re quite a beast to be part of the core creative team of. I’m just off the back of my 3rd festival I’ve ever directed – New Wave: Sound for Vivid at Seymour 2014. This team develops plans about a year to 18 months in advance… for Bellingen Music Festival (an annual event taking place in September), we’re currently planning 2015 now… approximately 16 months advance. Some think this is too much advance, others think this is too little time to mount a decent event – well I say this depends on your experience and what you’re setting out to achieve. You may wonder, what goes into planning the artistic content of a festival? I’m not sure what all the other festival directors in Australia do, but I’ll relate to how I approach it. Like any project there has to be clear definitions of objectives, scope and resources from the outset. What is unclear, though, is exactly when the outset is. The artistic ideas may start germinating years in advance – I’d say decades but I’ve only been directing events for about 10 years; I’m sure as I get into my 30s, I’ll produce events from some of…

June 10, 2014