Artsmildura

artsmildura is a leading community driven arts organisation charged with the development and delivery of a diverse annual program of creative arts through five festival events in the Mildura region:

January Murray River International Music Festival
March Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival
July Mildura Writers Festival
September Mildura Palimpsest
October Mildura Jazz, Food and Wine Festival

artsmildura has a proud history after seventeen years of delivering quality arts festivals, promoting opportunities for local and regional artists, and attracting the highest caliber of talent into the Mildura region.

“Mildura understands, as do many other towns battling climate change, drought, stuff-ups with water and an embattled global economy, that art is not a dispensable item in the survival pack. This town is
providing an essential model for the role of art – not only in battling isolated regional centres, but for the whole of the country. When times are tough, the soul needs Art even more – and I’m not talking just about entertainment…I’m talking about the Arts… Why on earth are the arts flourishing in Mildura? “

Robyn Archer, Manning Clarke Lecture, March 2009