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Rapper Lil’ Kim to headline both Vivid Sydney and Melbourne’s 2026 Rising festival

Pioneering artist returns to Australia for first time in 15 years, with poet Kae Tempest and Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti also on lineups of winter festivals

The Guardian - AU

Laser beams focus on future of arts festival Rising

A free laser beam art installation will run every night of Rising in June. But organisers can't confirm Melbourne's popular arts festival is funded beyond 2025.

AAP

Australia to host ‘Space-out competition’ – where people compete to do nothing

Created by a South Korean artist suffering burnout, the serious but absurd contest is just one of 65 events coming to Melbourne’s winter arts festival

The Guardian - AU

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Rising festival 2024: theatre-maker to be drugged unconscious in ‘deeply unnerving’ show about date rape

A Brazilian artist will have her body manipulated while passed out, in a lauded work about sexual violence that headlines Melbourne’s winter festival

The Guardian - AU

Comedian Jason Manford treats a random fan to a trip to the theatre

Jason Manford wasn't about to let a spare ticket go to waste so used the powers of Twitter to find a plus one to go along to the West End production of Brokeback Mountain

Daily Mirror

Jason Manford takes stranger to the theatre after 'no weirdos' Twitter plea

The Salford comedian and Hannah Fox planned to meet via Twitter just minutes before the theatre show began

Manchester Evening News

10,000 kazoos and body-horror ballet: Rising festival 2023 invites Melbourne to get involved

The winter festival will feature an immersive First Nations exhibition in an old grand ballroom, and a participatory performance by a virtuoso recorder player

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County Durham museum gets share of £4m funding pot to develop four new gallery spaces

The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle has been awarded a grant of more than quarter of a million pounds

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Rising Festival review: New Melbourne festival had world-class arts, but it was the small moments that made the biggest impact

As the long-awaited replacement for White Night and the Melbourne Festival, Rising set out to deliver a monumental program of public and international arts, but the small moments are perhaps its best feature.

ABC News

Rising: Melbourne’s long-awaited arts festival is a smorgasbord of immersive sonic and visual experiences set to reawaken the city

Having been delayed by COVID for two years, Melbourne’s newest cultural festival is set to wow audiences with headliners Sampa the Great and Masego and a raft of public art events.

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