New Annual curator Adrian Burnett

Newcastle Herald

New Annual curator Adrian Burnett talks about opening night and major events of the 2024 Newcastle cultural festival which runs September 27 through October 6 in Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

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00:00Hi, I'm Adrian Burnett, the Senior Curator and Producer of New Annual Festival and I'm

00:05thrilled to be announcing the 2024 program. We've got an incredible lineup for you this

00:11year. We're kicking off the festival here on King Street with a free family event called

00:19Festival First Night. We're closing off King Street, we'll be presenting our headline act

00:24Mitch Tambo, a First Nations music artist. The Tower Divas will be having food trucks,

00:31street performers, so bring your families down to the Festival First Night on the 27th

00:36of September in front of the City Hall. We're excited to be presenting Wayfinder from Dance

00:42North again this year at Pacific Theatre on the 27th of September. It's a family-friendly,

00:49fun, immersive and sonically amazing performance that we invite you to join us at. We have

00:57an immersive and community engagement program with Truth to Power Cafe that's going to be

01:03presented by Jeremy Goldstein at the City Hall. We've got Megan Cope's amazing project

01:09at Honeysuckle Marina and we've got a whole range of other programs around the Global

01:17Gathering which will be in Museum Park on the last weekend, which we will announce in

01:22mid-August this year.

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