Armidale Regional Council’s Arts and Cultural Festival Working Group has called for expressions of interest from creative types involved in visual arts, crafts, performance, music, theatre, writing and heritage for its inaugural art, culture and heritage festival.
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The Culotural Festival is set down for April 6 next year, and will be all about showcasing local talent, building creative capacity and cultural tourism, connecting arts and business and involving the local community.
To be held in and around the Armidale mall, it will start during the mid-morning and finish with a light show later in the night. The festival theme is "Colour New England" and celebrates the wonderful colours of autumn, the wide open skies and amazing light of our region during last days of the season, before we move into the cold, dark months of winter.
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Armidale Art Gallery manager Tess Culen thought Armidale's streets needed to be enhanced and a good start to achieving that is with an annual festival.
"I go to places like Melbourne and you go down those laneways and see that colour, and I was in Sydney and you see that huge picture of that Aboriginal woman on the wall down near Chinatown - and even a funky place like Byron Bay needed that colour to come in - and it changes the streets," Tess said.
"I think of the Mall and its lack of street art.
"So if we create a festival around art in the street, people might pull in off the highway to have a look. A lot of tourists do come through the gallery ... people like it."
Tess said she thought the Cultural Festival would most likely start on a shoestring budget, but could become a big success for the town given time.