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ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE CLIENT: VICTORIAN ARTS CENTRE TRUST A new approach to food and beverage transforms the visitor experience at the iconic Arts Centre Melbourne THE PROJECT OUR ROLE The Arts Centre Melbourne is the largest performing arts complex Following stakeholder consultation with presenters and across in Australia, hosting more than 4000 performances and 3 million all areas of theatre operations, the Maytrix Group developed a visitors each year. The complex includes the Hamer Hall, the Sidney strategy to transform retail and function catering operations. Myer Music Bowl and the Theatres Building which, set beneath an Analysis included a review of booking and programming to iconic spire in Melbourne’s Arts Precinct, is one of the city’s most optimise utilisation and commercial return to the Arts Centre recognisable cultural institutions. through catering operations. The catering service model was also reviewed, including infrastructure issues and constraints impacting Acknowledging the critical relationship between catering, the service and delivery aspirations. This comprehensive business visitor experience and public perceptions of the Arts Centre and facilities review underpinned changes to business interfaces, informed a strategy to optimise the Arts Centre catering systems and processes which were implemented following the operations. tendering of catering services. Contract changes implemented provided improved transparency, significant uplift in visitor satisfaction and venue utilisation. The Maytrix Group subsequently worked with the Arts Centre to scope and recruit personnel and facility planning to bring catering PERFORMING ARTS operations in-house. Southbank Theatre The Maytrix Group previously worked with the Victorian Arts Centre Trust informing the upgrade to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl Melbourne Recital Centre including backstage catering and integrated catering facilities. Geelong Performing Arts Centre Gosford Regional Performing Arts and Conference Centre.

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98Th ISPA Congress Melbourne Australia May 30 – June 4, 2016 Reimagining Contents

98th ISPA Congress MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA MAY 30 – JUNE 4, 2016 REIMAGINING CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PEOPLE & COUNTRY 2 MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, 3 STATE GOVERNMENT OF VICTORIA MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE 4 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING, ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE 5 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (ISPA) 6 MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (ISPA) 7 LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN: A SHORT HISTORY OF ISPA 8 MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 10 CONGRESS VENUES 11 TRANSPORT 12 PRACTICAL INFORMATION 13 ISPA UP LATE 14 WHERE TO EAT & DRINK 15 ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE 16 THE ANTHONY FIELD ACADEMY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 18 THE ANTHONY FIELD ACADEMY SPEAKERS 22 CONGRESS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 28 CONGRESS PERFORMANCES 37 CONGRESS AWARD WINNERS 42 CONGRESS SESSION SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 44 THE ISPA FELLOWSHIP CHALLENGE 56 2016 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS 57 ISPA FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS 58 ISPA STAR MEMBERS 59 ISPA OUT ON THE TOWN SCHEDULE 60 SPONSOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 66 ISPA CREDITS 67 ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE CREDITS 68 We are committed to ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to become immersed in ISPA Melbourne. To help us make the most of your experience, please ask us about Access during the Congress. Cover image and all REIMAGINING images from Chunky Move’s AORTA (2013) / Photo: Jeff Busby ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PEOPLE MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER FOR & COUNTRY CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, Arts Centre Melbourne respectfully acknowledges STATE GOVERNMENT OF VICTORIA the traditional owners and custodians of the land on Whether you’ve come from near or far, I welcome all which the 98th International Society for the Performing delegates to the 2016 ISPA Congress, to Australia’s Arts (ISPA) Congress is held, the Wurundjeri and creative state and to the world’s most liveable city.
THE ARCHITECT by AIDAN FENNESSY Welcome

THE ARCHITECT BY AIDAN FENNESSY Welcome The Architect is an example of the profound role theatre plays in helping us make sense of life and the emotional challenges we encounter as human beings. Night after night in theatres around the world, audiences come together to experience, be moved by, discuss, and contemplate the stories playing out on stage. More often than not, these stories reflect the goings on of the world around us and leave us with greater understanding and perspective. In this world premiere, Australian work, Aidan Fennessy details the complexity of relationships with empathy and honesty through a story that resonates with us all. In the hands of Director Peter Houghton, it has come to life beautifully. Australian plays and new commissions are essential to the work we do at MTC and it is incredibly pleasing to see more and more of them on our stages, and to see them met with resounding enthusiasm from our audiences. Our recently announced 2019 Season features six brilliant Australian plays that range from beloved classics like Storm Boy to recent hit shows such as Black is the New White and brand new works including the first NEXT STAGE commission to be produced, Golden Shield. The full season is now available for subscription so if you haven’t yet had a look, head online to mtc.com.au/2019 and get your booking in. Brett Sheehy ao Virginia Lovett Artistic Director & CEO Executive Director & Co-CEO Melbourne Theatre Company acknowledges the Yalukit Willam Peoples of the Boon Wurrung, the Traditional Owners of the land on which Southbank Theatre and MTC HQ stand, and we pay our respects to Melbourne’s First Peoples, to their ancestors and Elders, and to our shared future.
19 May Southbank Theatre, the Lawler World Premiere

MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS HUNGRY GHOSTS BY JEAN TONG 3 — 19 MAY SOUTHBANK THEATRE, THE LAWLER WORLD PREMIERE — Cast — Emina Ashman Jing-Xuan Chan Bernard Sam — Production — Director Petra Kalive Set Designer Eugyeene Teh Costume Designer Sophie Woodward Lighting Designer Emma Valente Composer & Sound Designer Darius Kedros Movement Director Lyndall Grant Lighting Secondment Marty Shlansky Sound Secondment Rory Tyzack Directing Secondments Karla Livingston-Pardy, Ryan A. Murphy Stage Manager Lisette Drew Production Photographer Jeff Busby — About the play — When you’re a young queer Chinese-Malaysian Australian, how do you work out where you belong in the world? Criss-crossing between our unnamed protagonist, the disappearance of flight MH370 and an unsolved mystery, Hungry Ghosts offers an unconventional take on the complexities of contemporary life. Hungry Ghosts was commissioned with the support of the Joan & Peter Clemenger Trust. Developed with the support of The Cybec Foundation through MTC’s Cybec Electric Playreading Series as part of the 2017 AsiaTOPA Festival, directed by Mark Zhuang Yi and read by Emina Ashman, Jing-Xuan Chan and Gareth Yuen. Melbourne Theatre Company acknowledges the Yalukit Willam Peoples of the Boon Wurrung, the Traditional Owners of the land on which Southbank Theatre, MTC HQ and Arts Centre Melbourne stand, and we pay our respects to Melbourne’s First Peoples, to their ancestors past and present, and to our shared future. Jing-Xuan Chan (top), Bernard Sam and Emina Ashman From the playwright JEAN TONG Jing-Xuan Chan When did you first realise sense of loss, or an inability to speak do these labels fail, and what other that your three parallel stories in due to either the suppression or expectations come with those new Hungry Ghosts could work together lack of knowledge, or the wistful identities or categories? Language in a full-length play? melancholy for something missing.
Melbourne Arts Precinct Blueprint 4 March 2014

Report to the Future Melbourne (Planning) Committee Agenda item 6.2 Melbourne Arts Precinct Blueprint 4 March 2014 Presenter: Rob Adams, Director City Design Purpose and background 1. The purpose of this report is to provide an update on the recent public release of the Melbourne Arts Precinct Blueprint (Blueprint) and advise on the implications for Council. 2. The preparation of a Blueprint to guide the future development of the Melbourne’s Arts Precinct was initiated in May 2011 by the Victorian Government and presents a shared vision for the future of the area as determined by a working group, chaired by architect Yvonne von Hartel AM and comprising key precinct stakeholders including Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne, University of Melbourne and major arts institutions. Key issues 3. The principles underpinning the Blueprint were informed by a community consultation process that involved representatives of arts organisations, residents, arts students and visitors to the precinct. 4. The Blueprint identifies that the precinct has the potential to be a vibrant and active destination and proposes that this will only be fully realised when all levels of government agree to cooperate in the facilitation of this special place. Council’s ongoing participation in the implementation of projects in the public realm is one way by which this overall vision can be achieved (refer Attachment 2). 5. The Blueprint is consistent with Council’s adopted Southbank Structure Plan and includes actions such as the streetscape improvements to City Road, open space along Southbank Boulevard and the integration of Dodds Street with the VCA campus.
Out on the Town

ISPA OUT ON THE TOWN 1 ISPA OUT ON THE TOWN SCHEDULE Melbourne is Australia’s most culturally Saturday 28 May vibrant city and all year round audiences can experience an incredible diversity of live 13:00 – 15:00 The Pearlfishers Arts Centre Melbourne performances. Opera Australia 13:00 – 15:45 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse Whilst you are in Melbourne for the 98th ISPA A Belvoir production at Malthouse Theatre Congress, REIMAGINING, we encourage you 14:00 – 15:40 Brahms’ Fourth Symphony Arts Centre Melbourne to see as much as you can – you never know Melbourne Symphony Orchestra what gem you might discover. 16:00 – 17:15 Heart is Racing Melbourne Recital Centre The Letter String Quartet The following list of events captures some 16:00 – 17:30 Straight White Men Arts Centre Melbourne performances that are happening over Melbourne Theatre Company the week of the Congress. From work-in- 18:00 – 21:30 Pasifika Showcase Eastbank Centre, Shepparton development showings to parties, meet-and- Multicultural Arts Victoria greets to world-class theatre, it certainly 19:00 – 20:15 Heart is Racing Melbourne Recital Centre gives you a snapshot of live performance in The Letter String Quartet our vibrant and inspiring city. 19:30 – 20:30 L U C I D Chunky Move Studio To find out more about any of the events Chunky Move or companies, speak to the team at the 19:30 – 21:45 La Bohème Arts Centre Melbourne Congress Registration and Information desk Opera Australia throughout the week. 19:30 – 22:15 The Glass Menagerie The Coopers Malthouse A Belvoir
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SUBMISSION 20-YEAR STATE INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY To: Infrastructure SA Level 15, Wakefield House 30 Wakefield Street Adelaide SA 5000 Attn: Mr Jeremy Conway, Chief Executive Ms Sabina Schaare, Manager, Stakeholder Engagement & Communications From: Jodi Glass Executive Director State Theatre Company of South Australia Subject: New Theatre Infrastructure – New Home for State Theatre Company of South Australia EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A. State Theatre Company of South Australia (the ComPany) is aligning with strategic partners to support the development of a new home for the Company. B. This new home will: a. give the Company the necessary platform to fulfil its strategic purpose: to become Australia’s pre-eminent storyteller, through the presentation of world-class, South Australian-produced and performed theatre; b. become the central hub for a number of professional Adelaide-based theatre companies and theatre-makers, creating a vibrant new multi-faceted theatre precinct – something Adelaide lacks but which many of the great cultural cities of the world enjoy; c. house and foster a new generation of independent artists, S2M performing arts organisations and creative entrepreneurs who will develop innovative new businesses that will spark and lead new economic opportunities, create jobs – enabling local creative businesses to go global while enriching South Australia culturally and economically. ANALYSIS About the Company 1. The Company is South Australia’s leading theatre company, classified by the State and Commonwealth Government’s as one of Australia’s 28 Major Performing Arts (MPA) companies (alongside Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Belvoir, Malthouse and Bell Shakespeare). The Company is one of only three South Australian MPA companies, the others being State Opera South Australia and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Wednesday 5 May 2021 Media Release a High Note to 2020: The

Wednesday 5 May 2021 Media Release A high note to 2020: The performing arts industry celebrates four leading lights in long-awaited Industry Achievement Awards announcement The Industry Achievement Award recipients for 2020 have been revealed and honoured: 2020 JC Williamson Award® Deborah Cheetham AO and David McAllister AM Sue Nattrass Award® Jill Smith AM and Ann Tonks AM Melbourne, Australia: Live Performance Australia (LPA) today announced and honoured four of Australia’s most celebrated live performance luminaries in a postponed 2020 Industry Achievement Awards ceremony, which took place on Wednesday 5 May at Melbourne Recital Centre. Deborah Cheetham AO and David McAllister AM have been announced as the recipients of the 2020 JC Williamson Award®, the foremost honour that the Australian live entertainment industry can bestow. In awarding the 2020 JC Williamson Award®, LPA recognises an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the Australian live entertainment and performing arts industry and shaped the future of our industry for the better. At the same event Jill Smith AM and Ann Tonks AM were revealed as the dual recipients of the 2020 Sue Nattrass Award®. This prestigious award honours exceptional service to the Australian live performance industry, shining a spotlight on people in service roles that support and drive our industry, roles that have proved particularly crucial in ensuring the sector’s survival over the past year. 2020 JC Williamson Award® Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer and educator Professor Deborah Cheetham AO, has been a leader and pioneer in the Australian arts landscape for more than 25 years. In 2009, Deborah established Short Black Opera with her partner Toni Lalich OAM, as a national not-for-profit opera company devoted to the development of Indigenous singers.
Mtc Annual Report 2017 -3

ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MTC ANNUAL REPORT 2017 -3- CONTENTS 4 2017 In Numbers MTC On Tour 6 Chair’s Report 47 Minnie & Liraz 8 Foundation Chair’s Report 48 Melbourne Talam 10 Artistic Director’s Report 49 What Rhymes with Cars and Girls 12 Executive Director’s Report 52 NEXT STAGE Writers’ Program MTC HQ Mainstage 252 Sturt St 16 Born Yesterday Readings & MTC Initiatives Southbank VIC 3006 18 John 56 Cybec Electric 03 8688 0900 20 Faith Healer 59 MTC Initiatives 22 Three Little Words Southbank Theatre 64 Awards & Nominations 140 Southbank Blvd 24 Minnie & Liraz 26 Macbeth Southbank VIC 3006 The Company 03 8688 0800 28 Noises Off 30 Di and Viv and Rose 68 MTC Board mtc.com.au 32 Hay Fever 70 MTC Foundation Board 34 The Father 72 Melbourne Theatre Company Staff Venues 36 Vivid White 75 Corporate Partners Throughout 2017 MTC performed its Melbourne season of plays at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner 76 Donors and The Lawler, and the Fairfax Studio and Playhouse at Arts Centre Melbourne. Education 80 Financial Report 2017 Managing Editor Virginia Lovett 40 Melbourne Talam Editor Rosie Shepherdson-Cullen 42 Sharing the Light Graphic Designer Helena Turinski 44 Education Activities Cover photo Jeff Busby Production photography by Brett Boardman (Hay Fever), Jeff Busby (all other productions), Phillip Erbacher (The Father), and Rob Maccoll (Noises Off). Other photography by Jarrod Barnes, Tim Grey, James Henry and Jacinta Keefe. Melbourne Theatre Company acknowledges the Yalukit Willam Peoples of the Boon Wurrung, the Traditional Owners of the land on which Southbank Theatre and MTC HQ stand, and we pay our respects to Melbourne’s First Peoples, to their ancestors past and present, and to our shared future.
Melbourne Art Fair 2 5 Aug 18 Southbank Arts Precinct

Melbourne Art Fair 2 5 Aug 18 Gallery Information melbourneartfair.com.au Pack Southbank Arts Precinct Presented by Melbourne Art Foundation Melbourne Art Fair returns as the region’s most significant commercial platform for Australasian contemporary art. The Fair takes place during Melbourne Art Week, 2-5 August 2018, housed in a temporary structure within the Southbank Arts Precinct and alongside the iconic Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). Showcasing a curated selection of around 40 galleries from Australia, New Zealand and the region, Melbourne Art Fair presents some of the newest and most respected names in contemporary art. Presented by the Melbourne Art Foundation, Melbourne Art Fair is set to welcome over 20,000 visitors over five days, and will be instrumental in stimulating critical and commercial 2 attention for galleries and their artists. Australia’s art fair for collectors Beginning in 1988, Melbourne Art Fair was the first commercial Gallery Information Pack Gallery Information fair of the Asia Pacific to establish an international network for collectors to connect and engage with the Australian art market. Consequently, Victoria based philanthropic support for arts and culture is the strongest in the nation. A truly global city, Melbourne is enriched by people from more than 200 countries and this will influence the Fair’s robust creative and cultural offering. Host city to 48 private museums, world-class institutions and galleries including ACCA, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art and NGV International [ranked 19th most popular gallery in the world], as well as one of the largest concentrations of commercial galleries in the country, Victoria is the ideal state for Australasia’s most important contemporary art fair.
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Bell Shakespeare

— ARC Linkage Project LP160100047 June 2019 Creative Convergence Midterm Industry Report (2017-18) Rachel Fensham, Paul Rae and Jennifer Beckett Creative Convergence Project |Midterm Industry Report Page 1 of 44 Table of Contents Project Introduction .......................................................................................................... 4 Aims and Outcomes .................................................................................................................. 5 Researchers and Partners ......................................................................................................... 6 Fieldwork to End 2018 .............................................................................................................. 7 Other Research Activities to End 2018 ..................................................................................... 7 Report Executive Summary ................................................................................................ 9 Arena Theatre Company .................................................................................................. 10 Arena’s Activities .................................................................................................................... 10 Creative Convergence and Arena ........................................................................................... 11 Preliminary Observations ....................................................................................................... 13 Recommendations .................................................................................................................
My Festival Planner

MY FESTIVAL PLANNER EVENT VENUE PAGE FROM Fri 10 Sat 11 Sun 12 Mon 13 Tue 14 Wed 15 Thu 16 Fri 17 Sat 18 Sun 19 Mon 20 Tue 21 Wed 22 Thu 23 Fri 24 Sat 25 Sun 26 UNTIL OPENING CELEBRATION TANDERRUM FEDERATION SQUARE 6 6pm MURRU FEDERATION SQUARE 7 7.30pm CIRCUS ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, 11.30am, 2pm, CARROUSEL DES MOUTONS FAIRFAX STUDIO 27 7pm 2pm 4.30pm From From CIRCUS FUTURES FORUM VARIOUS 28 9.30am 9.30am ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, 2.30pm, CIRKOPOLIS STATE THEATRE 20 8.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm IF THESE WALLS ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, 3pm, COULD TALK FAIRFAX STUDIO 26 6.30pm 6.30pm 6pm ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, 6pm, NANJING PROJECT FAIRFAX STUDIO 24 7pm 7pm 9pm ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, OPUS STATE THEATRE 22 8.30pm 8.30pm 5pm VAULT: THE NON–STOP PERFORMANCE OF ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, 28 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– 9am– CIRCUS OZ GALLERY 1 late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late THEATRE COMPLEXITY OF SOUTHBANK THEATRE, 4pm, BELONGING THE SUMNER 12 6 Oct 8pm 8.30pm 7pm 7pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8.30pm 7pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8.30pm 1 Nov THE COOPERS MALTHOUSE, 1pm, HAVE I NO MOUTH MERLYN THEATRE 32 7.30pm 7.30pm 6pm 6.30pm HELLO, GOODBYE & THE COOPERS MALTHOUSE, 2pm, 7pm 8pm 1pm, 8pm 2pm, 5pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY BECKETT THEATRE 68 9 Oct 8pm 7pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, 1pm, HIPBONE STICKING OUT PLAYHOUSE 56 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm 7.30pm 7.30pm FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY 1pm, MY LOVERS’ BONES ARTS CENTRE 84 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm MELBOURNE CBD TO From From From From From From From