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Midsumma Festival
Carnival crowd at Alexandra Garden
Carnival crowd at Alexandra Garden 2010
Genre
LGBT festival
Location(s)
Melbourne, Australia
Founded
1989
Website
http://midsumma.org.au
Midsumma Festival is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ arts and cultures held annually for 22 days over January and February in Melbourne, Australia. The festival began as a one-week celebration of LGBTQIA+ pride in 1989. The festival has since expanded to a three-week (four weekend) event that attracts over 240,000 people each year.
Although the primary festival is held in the summer, Midsumma works year-round to provide artists, social changers, and culture makers with support and tools to create, present, and promote their work. Midsumma is an open-access festival. The program is made up of diverse art forms and genres, including visual arts, live music, theatre, spoken word, cabaret, film, parties, sport, social events, and public forums
Midsumma's visual arts program features exhibitions in and around Melbourne from local, national and international LGBTQIA+ artists.
The festival's performing arts program includes musicals, theatre, cabaret, film, spoken word, music events, and dance parties. These performing arts events are largely produced by local community members.
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