Purpose: The purpose is to review the formation, event management, performance development and consumption of South East Australia's inaugural 2018 Giiyong Festival with emphasis on the sociocultural imaginary and political positionings of its shared theatre of arts. Design/methodology/approach: A...

Festival tourism has been growing considerably over the years, acquiring a prominent position and with strong popularity in society. Festivals and/or events promote a cultural exchange at international, national and local levels, with the opportunity for cultural sharing, from history and...

Through the lens of the dancing body, this paper examines practices of health and wellbeing produced in response to City of Vancouver urban governance policies. In particular, it calls attention to the legislative onslaught by city government in the years abutting the 2010 Winter Olympics to...

This paper draws on anthropological fieldwork of a civic parade in Manchester from 2010 to 2012 to argue for engaging with creativity as a process rather than an attribute of a particular sector or individual. It shows how the focus on funding and supporting 'creative industries' defined as '...

While theatre performances in traditional venues seem to attract specific segments of the population, theatre performances during arts festivals have been gaining in popularity. A lower perception of risk seems to be attracting attendees to festivals more than to traditional theatre venues. We find ...

The relentlessly growing relationship between tourism and creativity contributes to the search for alternatives to the development of the creative economy. The combination of concepts such as creativity and tourism has become a common diversification strategy, especially in the field of cultural...

There has been a remarkable rise in the number of Afrikaans arts festivals in South Africa. The outcomes of such festivals, however, remain little understood, particularly concerning the arts festivals' contribution to the arts. The aim of this study is to determine the contribution of three...

Countries are distinguished by their cultural identity and this is normally expressed through their people, heritage, architecture and arts. These attributes have the ability to attract visitors to the country that has the sense of place and imprint the memories on the visitors while instilling...

This paper analyses how much culture is valued in a newly-developed economy with a distinct dichotomy of an arts-appreciating population segment and a less-culturally aware mass. An analytical framework weaving together the intrinsic, business and societal benefits of arts and culture is applied to ...

This research note aims to address the lack of research focused on the audiences of amateur theatre and examines how audiences of artistic- (i.e. participating in festivals with high artistic requirements) and social- (i.e. not participating in those festivals with high artistic requirements)...