Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 03 August
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
The Wheeler Centre, in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria and the Harold Mitchell Foundation, is establishing an annual State of the Arts Lecture. How are our cultural industries in Australia performing? How should they be performing? The inaugural lecture will be presented by Jonathan Mills, current director of the Edinburgh International Festival.
In response to this lecture, arts critic Alison Croggon wrote the essay Ways of Meaning, looking at how we respond to art.
Featuring
Jonathan Mills
Jonathan Mills took up the post of Festival Director and Chief Executive of the Edinburgh International Festival in October 2006. Before this appointment he was the Vice-Chancellor’s (Professorial) Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Director of the Alfred Deakin Lectures and an Artistic Advisor to the new Melbourne Recital Centre & Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.
One of Australia’s most experienced festival directors his previous posts have included Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Melbourne Federation Festival, the Melbourne Millennium Eve celebrations and the Brisbane Biennial International Music Festival.
As a composer he is regularly commissioned in Australia and increasingly in Europe and the UK. His composition Sandakan Threnody for solo tenor, choir and orchestra won the Prix Italia in 2005.