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The BOLD Festival
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Craft + Design Festival
The 2026 Craft + Design Canberra Festival celebrates Canberra as a creative city of design, showcasing the work of more than 500 artists, makers, designers and creative thinkers. Across ten days, experience more than 130 activations, including events, exhibitions, markets, open studios, performances, public artworks, symposiums, talks, tours and workshops across the city.
Bloch
It all started with a promise in 1932 to make the most comfortable dance shoes in the world. Bloch’s devotion to crafting innovative and quality dance shoes has established the company as one of the most trusted names in the global dance industry.
BOLD Access
BOLD Access is a series of access options provided for the BOLD Festival by The Stellar Company, non for profit arts organisation based in the ACT with a 20 year history. We activate professionally produced, quality arts practice through a lens of cultural equity, embedded accessibility, social inclusion and sustainability.
Liz Lea Creates
Liz Lea Creates develops powerful, mindful and moving dance theatre with an ethos of inclusive action, mindful of the power of dance to move minds and the spirit.
Canberra Museum and Gallery
A vibrant place in the heart of the city, Canberra Museum and Gallery celebrates the region's social history and visual arts with dynamic exhibitions and unique community programs and events.
National Film and Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items. The NFSA will be hosting a series of talks and dance films.
Ainslie and Gorman offer rich opportunities to create, present and enjoy art, to network and collaborate, to teach and learn, and to foster critical discussion and the meeting of creative minds.
Quantum Leap Australia
Quantum Leap Australia (formerly QL2 Dance) is a nationally renowned company for young people. Our focus is on curiosity, rigour and creation in dance, empowering young people in their artistry. We recognise and nurture unique qualities, offering choice and autonomy for all individuals.
Sidestage Production Services
Sidestage provides a range of technical production services to the live entertainment industry. They closely work with clients to understand their unique requirements and to build a solution that works for everyone involved.
Bloomwaves
Bloomwaves is an experimental literary work about community, queerness, and the messiness of making art for and about the people you love.
