Commonwealth Games launches Festival 2018 program

Queensland artists from the dance, circus and contemporary music sectors will perform alongside a range of international talents at Festival 2018 Gold Coast.
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Festival 2018’s Across the Coast, Museum of the Moon. Photo credit: Luke Jerram.

A contemporary dance program including Queensland companies Dancenorth and The Farm; live music by Yothu Yindi and The Treaty Project; and a range of international artists including the UK’s Punchdrunk with their immersive children’s work, The Lost Lending Library, are among the highlights of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) cultural program.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts