Partnerships

Festival box office, photo by Wendell Teodoro

Airship Orchestra scrim, photo by Wendell Teodoro

We would like to thank all our partners for their incredible support of Sydney Festival 2022. Your unwavering commitment to help us deliver a major arts and culture event during an uncertain year enabled us to present an engaging, world-class program. GOVERNMENT & COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Flags in the CBD, photo by Yaya Stempler

Special thanks to our two founding partners, the State Government through Create NSW and City of Sydney. Their continued investment in Sydney Festival ensures that we can deliver a diverse, high-calibre, multiarts program every year. We continue to work collaboratively with our long-term investor Destination NSW, promoting the Festival through its extensive marketing channels to drive visitation to NSW. Infrastructure NSW supported the major new art commission Future Dreaming, sonic beauty Night of the Soul and Vigil: Songs for Tomorrow, a night of reflection and performance held on 25 January. The Festival also partnered with Place Management to present Airship Orchestra at Darling Harbour, an immersive wonderland which attracted a familyfriendly audience to the precinct. We welcomed UNSW as our Education Partner in 2022, presenting co-curated talk series The Reckoning, available to stream on both Sydney Festival and UNSW platforms. Sydney Festival remains committed to programming in Western Sydney with a focus on the Parramatta local government area which is supported by City of Parramatta. Through this partnership the Festival has delivered successful productions including the musical A Chorus Line, and digital/live theatre hybrid Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran. Though postponed to March, Sydney Symphony Under the Stars returned to delight audiences at The Crescent in Parramatta Park for a sixth year, made possible through partnership with Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Greater Sydney Parklands. In response to the boycott on the 2022 Festival called by the BDS movement, Sydney Festival is conducting an independent review into public funding that supports the presentation of work in the Festival program from local and international artists. This review is expected to be completed prior to the launch of the 2023 Festival.

CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

Our exciting new pop-up music hub in the heart of the Sydney CBD, Speakers Corner, hosted a series of outdoor concerts where all of our partners were acknowledged externally by the venue Box Office as well as on the large in-venue screens. Patrons enjoyed beverages available from the bar provided by Treasury Wine Estates, Good Drinks Australia, Heaps Normal and Diageo, and a pop-up food offering by Create Catering. NORMAL joined the Festival for the first time as a distinguished partner to support our fierce and fabulous musical Qween Lear and to activate the Gin Garden at the Hordern Pavilion precinct, however due to COVID-19 the show season did not proceed. Instead, a fun and cheeky digital campaign was created with giveaways to the show 44 Sex Acts in One Week. NRMA supported our large-scale artwork Future Dreaming at Barangaroo and created a unique experience called Aboriginal Dreaming Cruises on Sydney Harbour by partnering with Fantasea Cruising and Tribal Warrior Aboriginal Corporation. We enjoyed working collaboratively with Re Agency to develop and create our new Festival brand with the exciting design applied across print collateral, outdoor, motion assets, website and TVCs. Media partners provide vital promotional support and coverage, with special thanks to The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC Radio, Time Out, Torch Media, Concrete Playground, Adflow and Limelight. Sydney Festival works with a variety of production partners who play a critical role in staging the Festival, most notably TDC who provided the audiovisual technology and expertise at Speakers Corner. Special thanks to our other production partners: Chameleon, EPS and Safety Culture. We would also like to thank our Festival lawyers Maddocks, our research partners Woolcott Research and RDA Research as well as Placie, Wilson Parking, Signwave Newtown, CloudWave and Artbank Australia.

FESTIVAL FEASTS

Now in its 22nd year, the Festival Feasts restaurant program offers audiences an elevated dining experience during January. The successful ongoing initiative directs new business to partner restaurants across the CBD, Inner-West and Parramatta. Thank you to our 2022 restaurant partners: Azzuro 753, Bellbird Dining and Bar, Bennelong, Cafe Sydney, Chefs Gallery, Chi by Lotus, Lotus The Galeries, Misfits At The Redfern, No.1 William, The Dining Room Park Hyatt Sydney, and Watson’s EQ.