RETURNING from March 17 through to April 2, 2023, the annual Shepparton Festival will be a celebration of our region’s creative community, spanning art, sculpture, dance, writing, music and multi-cultural events.
Following a hugely successful event in 2022, newly appointed festival director Kristen Retallick (former board member at Shepparton Festival) is looking forward to bringing the vibrant community together once again to experience a feast of creativity.
Moving into its 27th year, the festival’s highly anticipated program includes the unique events in unusual places that it has come to be known for.
“Shepparton Festival 2023 is full-to-the-brim with quality arts experiences, with a huge collaborative effort happening behind the scenes to bring it together,” Kristen said.
“It’s an opportunity for our local creatives to be nurtured and guided by each other, as well as by some from outside our region. Our town is truly on the national art map. This year we have an exclusive opportunity to collaborate with an international dance company and the Victorian College of the Arts, which we are thrilled about.”
The 2023 festival aims to honour the individual talents and contributions in our city and region who “from many pixels” make the picture complete.
“We are a huge community of arts lovers, makers and appreciators that form the larger picture of our festival. We’ve got artists, musicians, sculptors, dancers and people with big ideas, all making our city what it is,” Kristen said.
An incredibly special outdoor venue will host an ethereal bird-walking tour twice daily for the Dawn Chorus Dusk Chorus, and local artist Rachel Doller is behind art installation Foliage and Rocks: an exhibition of second-hand textiles and threads at Wildlife Brewery.
Interactive light installation Transverse Orientation invites four participants and ten observers at a time into a vivid, interactive projection mapped space, where a light field is projected around each participant to represent a pool of water with luminescent life.
The full program will launch and tickets will be available from February 2023. Visit sheppartonfestival.org.au for more information and keep an eye on Shepparton Festival’s socials.
