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Harriet Tatham

Vivid festival director Gill Minervini wants people to have fun — and think a little along the way

Running the nation's biggest festival is a job that would unnerve even the most confident of creative directors.

But for Gill Minervini, the woman behind Sydney's Vivid festival, it's a challenge she likens to a drug — an unpredictable but intoxicating ride.

"If I sat back and thought, 'Two-and-a-half million people. What are they going to think?' Yeah, I'd probably get spooked. But I choose to be excited by that," she said.

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