Melbourne’s New Winter Arts and Culture Festival Rising Has Announced Its Huge 2021 Program – Concrete Playground

A certain global pandemic might have limited Melbourne’s creativity fix last year, but come May, the city more than make up for that artistic dry spell. Launching with the total lunar eclipse on Wednesday, May 26, the city is set to welcome Rising, a brand new festival of arts and culture and an ambitious celebration of place. Running for 12 nights and descending on venues and public spaces all across the city, it’s set to deliver a huge 133 different projects and events involving more than 750 Victorian artists. Expect a large-scale celebration of music, art and performance, in what organisers are pushing to become the major cultural event for the entire Asia-Pacific region.

After being forced to postpone its planned 2020 debut,…