MELBOURNE'S new Rising festival has announced its 2023 program: and it’s huge! The program spans 185 events featuring more than 400 artists, including 35 commissions and 12 world premieres.
The festival embraces the winter and the night, and will take place from June 7 to 18, with indoor and outside events – in historic buildings and traditional venues, in public gardens and squares, car parks and churches, from the ground to the sky. Many are free, with audiences invited to "reflect, reckon, rave, and revel in Melbourne’s nighttime culture". Like its predessessor, White Night, the festival boasts many family activities, such as iceskating along the Birrarung Marr, and fantastic light shows and fantasies. Many public arts institutions, such as the galleries, are open late into the night.
The program is…