You Are Here

As The Ellis Collective stood in the area we had cordoned off to use as a basketball court in Raubul Lane, they seemed nervous. Matty Ellis had it in his head that we’d managed to get the Canberra Capitals and their plucky team of musicians that had defeated Super Best Friends, Waterford & Fun Machine [...]

So You Are Here has finished. And you know how I know? Because yesterday at 8.30am I picked up the 3T van from Avis in Fyshwick, drove to the Newsroom, started piling in couches and tables, and while Dan and Nickamc pulled apart cables and powered down the lighting and sound rig, Nick Delatovic, Rosie [...]

This afternoon I briefly visited the carillon — that Canberra totem — to admire it’s asymmetry and reflect upon festival goings on. Pfft, not really. I mean, I did visit the carillon, but there was no structure-inspired adulation happening. The thing looks like a pencil when you’ve lost your sharpener and resorted to the ugly [...]

You might remember that earlier in the piece, Andrew Galan sat down with Rosie Stevens and touched on the notion of slamming. The thing is, Andrew said a hulluva lot more about slamming than we let on. We can only fit so much into a post before you get tired of scrolling. Let’s not discount [...]

This afternoon, festival Producers David Finnigan, Yolande Norris and Adam Hadley sat down to a panel at Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, to ask the audience about what’s next for You Are Here. The conversation tided over their roles within the festival, talking about pop-up events, and determining how a curated festival works. While they, [...]