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Overview
We believe that a Festival should be festive and celebrate the personality of its city. We are Brisbane’s most anticipated event of the year, bringing people together as they awake from their winter slumber for an explosion of arts performances and experiences. Brisbane Festival is unlike anything else you can experience in the world. We redefine what an International Arts Festival looks and feels like, staying ahead of the game and bringing the next generation with us. The river and iconic city landmarks are our stage as we create the art that enlivens, delights and disrupts. The curated multi-arts program presents a bold international program transporting our audience beyond the everyday through captivating performances and installations from across the world. We participate in global conversations. Brisbane is a city with boundless ambition, and the program celebrates this through collaborations, commissions and presentations. We are deeply committed to making the impossible possible for our audiences and our artists. Brisbane Festival is an important time of the year when our artists are pushed beyond the horizon to make the work of their dreams come to life. We inspire audiences with new ideas and experiences that leave life-long impressions. We are at the heart of integrating arts and culture as a vital part of Brisbane’s future, creating an unwavering demand for this wonderful Festival. Brisbane Festival acknowledges this country’s First Nations people and with their leadership and guidance, we celebrate that deep cultural legacy. We create a rich multi-arts program made by and with our local Indigenous community. As our city landscape changes and undergoes unprecedented growth, we move forward with gusto, determination, authenticity and excitement. Brisbane Festival is seizing the moment and heralding a new beginning.
Programming Objectives
Looking for family work, outdoor free programming, cabaret, in-theatre, dance, installations.
Delegates
Fiona MacDonald - she/her
Creative Producer [email protected] Dates at Festival: 20 - 23 Oct
Fi is a Brisbane-based Creative Producer. She specialises in delivering performing arts events and activities for/with children & young people and community engaged programming. Fi is currently engaged as a Creative Producer for Brisbane Festival and is a co-founder and the Executive Producer & General Manager of Imaginary Theatre. Fi’s career has spanned working with independent small orgs, in Government positions, for Festivals and events. As a Producer and Event Manager Fi has worked for Queensland University of Technology, Circa, Brisbane Festival (2006 – 10. 2019 - Current), Queensland Music Festival, the State Library of Queensland, Brisbane City Council, Human Ventures and Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Fi has also collaborated on projects with Contact Inc , Motherboard Productions and Company Bad featuring diverse communities as participants and audiences. Engagements with LATT Theatre, QUT and Imaginary Theatre have seen Fi engage in touring theatre productions, developing international collaborations and engaging children and young people in various arts experiences in South Korea since 2004. In 2018 she also completed an Australia Council Professional Placement with The Arts Space for Kids in Shanghai. Through Imaginary Theatre and Circa, Fi produced the first presentation of Punchdrunk’s ‘The Lost Lending Library’ outside of the UK, for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, and through Imaginary Theatre has the rights to present the work in Australia. Fi has lectured and tutored at Queensland University of Technology, and was a 2016 Global Fellow and Australia Council 2017 - 2019 Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA).