The Latest Breaking News from Rising

With NWSL expanding and MLS rescheduling, an Arizona businesswoman is making a pitch

Vicki Mayo has plans to build a fully-enclosed, natural-grass soccer stadium in Mesa. What team will play there is far less certain

The Guardian - US · Jun 3

At this year’s Rising festival, I was most excited by the new and unexpected audiences

Rising situates itself as a festival of new art, performance and music that takes place in the heart of Naarm/Melbourne just as the weather turns cold and the days get darker and shorter.

The Conversation · Jun 28, 2024

‘There is a constant fear’: could you cook, paint and sing while running on a treadmill?

Risk of collapse is the tension driving all three shows at Melbourne’s Rising festival – with one even allowing audiences a refund if its creators fail

The Guardian - AU · Jun 7, 2024

Conservative author mocked for being ‘completely speechless’ when asked to define ‘woke’

‘So, I mean, woke is sort of the idea that ... this is going to be one of those moments that goes viral,’ author says

The Independent UK · Mar 15, 2023

‘Hopefully some people hate it’: the immersive film about capitalism coming to Melbourne

Starring Cate Blanchett and Giancarlo Esposito, Julian Rosefeldt’s Euphoria is coming to Australia after Rising festival’s co-artistic director was compelled by it in New York

The Guardian - AU · Feb 13, 2023

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 · Jun 17, 2022

Anything & Everything gives us a glance into the lives teenagers are constructing online

Review: Anything Everything, Platform Arts, infinity ensemble for Rising.

The Conversation · Jun 8, 2022

Football players suspended in midair for NGV art installation recreating 2011 AFL mark of the year

Andrew Krakouer's famous mark, which won the 2011 AFL mark of the year, comes to life at the NGV in a live performance for the RISING festival.

ABC News · Jun 5, 2022

Third time lucky? Melbourne’s Rising festival announces 2022 lineup after two years of delays

Arts festival was cancelled in 2020 and 2021, but organisers have high hopes for this year, which will see 801 artists, musicians and theatre companies present 84 projects

The Guardian - AU · Mar 17, 2022

YouTube Won't Distinguish Between Misinformation and Reporting, So It Suspended My Channel

The platform punished The Hill's morning show, Rising, for showing a clip of Trump speaking.

Reason · Mar 3, 2022