The newly launched Antidote festival will join Vivid LIVE, All About Women, Graphic and Bingefest on Sydney Opera House’s bulging program of annual events.
Antidote is coming to the famous Sydney sails this September 2-3, replacing the Opera House’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas, and is aiming to celebrate “the artists, thinkers and doers who have spearheaded change in a time of uncertainty”.
To that end, the 2017 program features talent from around Australia and overseas, including author and transgender rights activist Janet Mock; national co-chair of Women’s March on Washington Tamika D. Mallory; author of Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge; and the team behind The Onion.
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There’ll also be appearances from Australia’s own Uncle Jack Charles and Archie Roach, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ‘78er Julie McCrossin, and Rantings Of An Aboriginal Feminist’s Celeste Liddle.
Live and participatory performances from Noëmi Lakmaier’s Cherophobia, The Money by UK theatre group Kaleider and Anna Collod’s Blank Placard Dance, Replay round out the program.
Find out more at antidote.sydneyoperahouse.com.
Photo: Prudence Upton
