SA tightens festival ties with Malaysia
Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival has agreed to closer ties with the Georgetown Festival in Malaysia.
The two festivals signed a Memorandum of Understanding last night which commits the events to closer collaboration.
The OzAsia Festival, run by the Adelaide Festival Centre, is the only major arts festival in Australia with an Asian focus.
The Georgetown Festival is an annual month-long event featuring international and local artists.
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The MOU was signed by South Australian Trade and Investment Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith and Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng yesterday as part of the State Government’s trade mission to South-East Asia.
OzAsia Festival director Joseph Mitchell said the partnership would involve collaborative programming which would attract world-leading artists to Adelaide.
“It also allows us to help the Georgetown Festival while promoting our own festival to the rest of Asia,” he said.
Adelaide and Georgetown are sister cities.
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