RISING
RISING is Melbourne's winter arts festival, staging around 12 nights of large-scale installations, contemporary music, performance and late-night events across the CBD in early June. Born from the merger of Melbourne Festival and White Night, it leans experimental and after-dark, built for wandering between venues with a coat on.
What to expect
Attendances have reached about 640,000. The program typically anchors on a handful of big free public works, with ticketed music and theatre threaded around them. June in Melbourne is properly cold, which the festival treats as an asset: the city at night becomes the venue.
- Arts & Literature
- Music
- Major Event
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