OzAsia Festival is Australia’s premier international arts festival that is entirely dedicated to engagement with Asia.

Led by Artistic Director, Joseph Mitchell, OzAsia Festival presents a bold and exciting line-up of boundary-pushing contemporary arts each year, as well as the ever popular Moon Lantern Parade and Lucky Dumpling markets.

OzAsia Festival continues to play a significant role in introducing new contemporary arts from Asia to audiences in Australia. The 2018 festival presented five world premieres, ten Australian premieres, and 22 events that were exclusive to Adelaide.

“OzAsia Festival continues to lead the way as Australia’s major arts festival engaging with Asia. The program in 2018 was our most expansive and diverse program to date, and showcased the breadth of boundary-pushing contemporary arts from across Asia as well as Australia-Asia collaborations. There is something for everyone across both free and ticketed events each year.” Joseph Mitchell, Artistic Director

Watch this space: Details about 2019’s OzAsia Festival are coming very soon. In the meantime, take a look at the stats from last year’s fantastic OzAsia Festival …

The 2018 program included a total of 60 unique events that include the following:

• 16 dance or theatre performance events
• 20 live music events
• 7 visual art exhibitions
• 5 film program events
• 3 major community events
• 8 talk, workshop, education or conference events
• 1 literature festival event

Within the 2018 program, a total of 414 activities took place including:

• 134 professional performances
• 82 community performances
• 55 talk events
• 20 film screenings
• 8 major visual art exhibitions
• 56 workshops
• 59 other programs (such as Q&A’s, VIP events, conference events)

The recorded attendance of more than 200,000 included:

• 75,000 at Lucky Dumpling Market
• 40,000 at Moon Lantern Parade
• 85,000 across all other events, productions, exhibitions and activities