Abstract
Artrage, Next Wave, Take Over, Come Out, Loud and Fried are just some of the myriad youth arts festivals held in Australia in recent years. Usually supported by government arts funding and curated by professional producers, these festivals attract young artists, young audiences and lots of attention from those interested in new or emerging performance practices. Festival participation is increasingly popular among Australians, with over 30 per cent of eighteen-to-twenty-four-year-olds having attended a festival in the year prior to the last population census (Bureau of Statistics). Each state hosts at least one major recurrent youth arts festival, and many are vehicles for the development and presentation of new Australian theatre. Multimedia, interactive art and cross-art form performance often gain top billing in programming that privileges the innovative, highlights the social and sometimes inadvertently prescribes “the young.”
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