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.