Festival UnWrapped

Returning for its second outing, held under the sails of the renowned Sydney Opera House, is the bi-annual Festival UnWrapped. The event is a celebration of diverse, new, contemporary works from Australian artists varying in age, genre, gender and everything in between. This season’s Festival UnWrapped will feature five acclaimed works which include performances by a wide range of artists including Ali McGregor, Ghenoa Gela, William Yang, Scott Turnbull, Lara Thoms and a group of five artists from PYT Fairfield. 

Festival UnWrapped’s organiser and Sydney Opera House’s Head of Programming Fiona Winning spoke to us about the upcoming festival and the artists involved. 

“These are some great artists drawing on their own experience to tell fantastic meaningful contemporary Australian stories,” said Fiona. 

Festival UnWrapped focuses on audience members coming to see more than one show during their visit and spending time interacting with the artists and other audience members. On this audience/artist experience, Fiona said: “We want to create a social space where people actually come and hang out and see the artists…creating a connection between the audience and artists.”

Presenting new and diverse works to Sydney Opera House audiences is incredibly important to the Festival UnWrapped team, with Fiona saying, “What we wanted to do was cluster a bigger group of works together so that we could introduce artists who may not be known to our audiences.”

Fiona went on to explain the importance of Festival UnWrapped as a whole, stating their main goal is “to be showing work that’s incredibly diverse. That’s from the most incredible international theatre and classical music artists and a bunch of incredible Australian artists. Showing small works too that are right on the edge of cutting contemporary practice.”

Festival UnWrapped opens tomorrow and audiences are encouraged to see multiple works and hang around after performances to meet the artists, with under 30s tickets also available. 

May 3-19. Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney. From $30+b.f. Tickets & Info: www.sydneyoperahouse.com

 

By Madison Behringer.

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