Editorial 22 November 2017

In this week’s RealTime, a multitude of lay and professional performers execute the deeply absorbing A Wave and Waves [image above] in Perth’s Totally Huge New Music Festival, a key event for Australian afficionados of adventurous music-making. Near Cootamundra in southern NSW, the audience for the Wired Open Day Festival come into intimate contact with earth, insects and a landscape honoured and transformed by art. In Lismore, director Kirk Page reflects on the making of Djurra, the forthcoming multimedia performance that celebrates the Bundjalung culture of north-eastern NSW.

The resounding ‘yes’ vote for marriage equality legislation came as a great relief, until those same politicians who instituted the postal process (avoiding parliamentary responsibility and hoping for an indifferent public response) commenced demanding discriminatory, theocratic rights out of place in a democracy. The fight continues. Keith & Virginia

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Top image credit: A Wave and Waves, Totally Huge New Music Festival, photo Bohdan Warchomij

22 November 2017

RealTime is published by Open City, an Incorporated Association in New South Wales.Open City was supported 1994-2018 by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy (VACS), an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Open City was supported 1994-2018 by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy (VACS), an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

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