Report to the Community 2012 | Page 20

LOCAL COLLABORATION Each year Melbourne Festival collaborates with an extensive list of local artists and partners to showcase the very best music, visual and performing arts that Australia has to offer. Some of these collaborations and partnerships are decades old, while others are in their infancy. All demonstrate the Festival’s ongoing development and reach into the local arts industry. Proud of a local arts community that is driven by creativity, innovation and verve, Melbourne Festival acts as an incubator. It brings together ideas and artists, and commissions work that provokes, inspires and delights. IN 2012 MELBOURNE FESTIVAL WORKED WITH THE FOLLOWING LOCAL COMPANIES, PRODUCTIONS AND VENUES: Arts Centre Melbourne Lucy Guerin Inc Arts House Malthouse Theatre Asialink Melbourne Recital Centre Astra Chamber Music Society Monash University Australian Centre for the Moving Image Multicultural Arts Victoria Australian Centre of Contemporary Art Never Did Me Any Harm Australian National Academy of Music NGV International Centre for Contemporary Photography Place of Assembly Chamber Made Opera Polyglot Theatre Chunky Move Quasi Una Fantasia City Within A City Regent Theatre Conversations With Ghosts Schoolhouse Studios Dancehouse Sidney Myer Music Bowl Force Majeure St Mary Star of the Sea FortyFiveDownstairs St Paul’s Cathedral Forum Theatre Theatre Works Gertrude Contemporary The House of Dreaming Greater Union Cinemas The Minotaur Trilogy Grobak Padi The University of Melbourne Hi-Fi Melbourne The Wheeler Centre Hold Victorian College of the Arts How High the Sky Weather Human Effect Impasse 20