on 1/10/01 2:32 PM, Jill Jones at [log in to unmask] wrote:
Sorry, if the last post was confusing. The 'festival' I refer to in the
first para is the Adelaide Arts Festival that Sellars is curating for next
March. The 'festival' in the second para is the BAM thing.
> I suppose Sellars thought he needed to show he 'knew' something about
> Australia. He has a kind of 'off the wall' personal style from what I can
> judge and his festival ideas have aroused a lot of controversy here. I must
> say, though, I am looking forward to it. One thing he has done is to focus
> mainly on Australian artists rather than importing overseas 'stars'.
> (There's two sides to that, of course. It isn't just 'cultural cringe' but
> an opportunity to see stuff we don't see often because we are so far away
> and for the o/s bods to mix and mingle with us.)
>
> He didn't say anything, by the way, about the lit component of the festival
> and I'm not sure of the final line-up of writers - again some toing and
> froing which we had a minor bit of input into - but there were certainly
> going to be some Indigenous writers. Will ask at work tomorrow.
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