Following their inaugural meeting of the minds last year, Creative Sydney, which runs concurrently with the Lou Reed curated Vivid Sydney Festival later this year, have announced an exciting range of speakers, collaborators and performers for this year’s week-long celebration of local creativity.
The series of free public events will be held from 5-13 June at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Quay and aims to spark debate, showcase talent and inspire action through Sydney’s most outstanding entrepreneurs, creative practitioners and community campaigners including Chris Ying of literary juggernaut McSweeney’s, German photography guru Ute Noll, visual artists Alex Fry and Jamie Nimmo, Joseph Allen Shea of Izrock as well as representatives of Monster Children, Triple J, Modular Records, The Glue Society, The City Of Sydney, The Finders Keepers Markets, Bowl-A-Rama, Hopscotch, Heaps Decent and The Sydney Opera House.
Aside from all the new talent, this year will also see a change of format with the introduction of the Sydney Sessions an exciting cross-disciplinary collaboration series (think Romance Was Born vs The Sydney Dance Company vs. The Presets or something like that), Creative Connections a networking and one-on-one advice seminar, and a closing night Block Party.
For more information head to the Official Creative Sydney Website or watch the below videos with Festival Creative Director and all round busy woman Jess Scully.
