On the eve of his first festival, please join SAMAG for a conversation between Wesley Enoch, Director, Sydney Festival and George Mannix, Manager City Animation, City of Parramatta.

This intimate conversation event will explore arts leadership, as well as the challenges and opportunities for Australian arts in times of austerity. As the public purse and the civic space contracts, what new creative spaces and new public conversations might artists and arts companies open? How might the arts change the ways in which our world can be seen? And how can the arts begin to heal the wounds of our past and imagine brighter futures for all Australians?